Patents by Inventor ANDY NORMAN

ANDY NORMAN has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Facilitating scanning of protected resources
    Patent number: 10389747
    Abstract: Example implementations relate to facilitating scanning of protecting computing resources. In example implementations, a computing device receives a scan indicator that indicates an external agent is prepared to scan a protected resource of the computing device; identifies a protected action that may be performed by the data processor, the protected action facilitating scanning the protected resource of the computing device by the external agent, the protected action comprising a change in a state of the protected resource; performs the protected action; and provides the external agent with data indicating a current state of the protected resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2019
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Richard Brown, Jonathan Griffin, Andy Norman
  • FACILITATING SCANNING OF PROTECTED RESOURCES
    Publication number: 20170353485
    Abstract: Example implementations relate to facilitating scanning of protecting computing resources. In example implementations, a computing device receives a scan indicator that indicates an external agent is prepared to scan a protected resource of the computing device; identifies a protected action that may be performed by the date processor, the protected action facilitating scanning the protected resource of the computing device by the external agent, the protected action comprising a change in a state of the protected resource; performs the protected action; and provides the external agent with data indicating a current state of the protected resource.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2015
    Publication date: December 7, 2017
    Inventors: RICHARD BROWN, JONATHAN GRIFFIN, ANDY NORMAN