Patents by Inventor Apparao Kodavanti

Apparao Kodavanti 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).

  • Data masking
    Patent number: 8700918
    Abstract: Method, device, and storage medium to receive test data including multiple test strings, wherein the test data is a data set that includes all possible values of input strings to be data masked; encrypt each of the test strings; select a portion of the encrypted test string; compare each portion to the corresponding test string; determine, for each portion, whether the portion of is equal to the corresponding test string; assign the portion as a replacement string when the portion is not equal to the corresponding test string; determine whether each replacement string is unique; store each replacement string that is not unique; generate, for each replacement string that is not unique, an alternate replacement string; and output an alternate replacement string, as a masked string in response to a determination that art input string matches one of the stored test strings associated with one of the alternate replacement strings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2014
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Sundarraman Sabapathy, Apparao Kodavanti, Srinivas K. Adabala
  • DATA MASKING
    Publication number: 20130283059
    Abstract: Method, device, and storage medium to receive test data including multiple test strings, wherein the test data is a data set that includes all possible values of input strings to be data masked; encrypt each of the test strings; select a portion of the encrypted test string; compare each portion to the corresponding test string; determine, for each portion, whether the portion of is equal to the corresponding test string; assign the portion as a replacement string when the portion is not equal to the corresponding test string; determine whether each replacement string is unique; store each replacement string that is not unique; generate, for each replacement string that is not unique, an alternate replacement string; and output an alternate replacement string, as a masked string in response to a determination that art input string matches one of the stored test strings associated with one of the alternate replacement strings.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2012
    Publication date: October 24, 2013
    Applicant: VERIZON PATENT AND LICENSING INC.
    Inventors: Sundarraman Sabapathy, Apparao Kodavanti, Srinivas K. Adabala