Patents by Inventor Clint MERRILL

Clint MERRILL 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).

  • Managing supersedence of solutions for security issues among assets of an enterprise network
    Patent number: 11621974
    Abstract: In an embodiment, a security auditing component obtains a solution set that is based upon a security audit of an enterprise network, the solution set characterizing a set of solutions associated with a set of security issues associated with one or more assets of the enterprise network, detects that the solution set can be condensed into a condensed solution set that mitigates the set of security issues to the same degree as the solution set, the detection being based at least in part upon (i) one or more rules applied to one or more solution texts and/or (ii) asset-specific metadata and/or (iii) static metadata, and condenses, based on the detecting, the solution set into the condensed solution set by combining two or more subsets of related solutions and/or filtering the solution set to remove one or more subsets of redundant or superseded solutions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: TENABLE, INC.
    Inventors: Katherine Alice Sexton, Nicholas Miles, Nicolas Pouvesle, Renaud Deraison, Clint Merrill, John Walker, Charles Joseph Bacon
  • MANAGING SUPERSEDENCE OF SOLUTIONS FOR SECURITY ISSUES AMONG ASSETS OF AN ENTERPRISE NETWORK
    Publication number: 20200366706
    Abstract: In an embodiment, a security auditing component obtains a solution set that is based upon a security audit of an enterprise network, the solution set characterizing a set of solutions associated with a set of security issues associated with one or more assets of the enterprise network, detects that the solution set can be condensed into a condensed solution set that mitigates the set of security issues to the same degree as the solution set, the detection being based at least in part upon (i) one or more rules applied to one or more solution texts and/or (ii) asset-specific metadata and/or (iii) static metadata, and condenses, based on the detecting, the solution set into the condensed solution set by combining two or more subsets of related solutions and/or filtering the solution set to remove one or more subsets of redundant or superseded solutions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 14, 2020
    Publication date: November 19, 2020
    Inventors: Katherine Alice SEXTON, Nicholas MILES, Nicholas POUVESLE, Renaud DERAISON, Clint MERRILL, John WALKER, Charles Joseph BACON