Patents by Inventor Daniel G. Wing
Daniel G. Wing 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).
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Patent number: 12443744Abstract: Described embodiments provide systems and methods for securely storing private information of a user on a device of the user. A server may register a mobile device to store credentials of a user thereon, based on authentication of the user of the mobile device. The server may encrypt credentials of the user using a key of the server. The server may send the encrypted credentials to the registered mobile device for storage thereon without the key. The server may send a code to an endpoint device to initiate authentication of the user with use of the mobile device. The server may receive the encrypted credentials from the mobile device in response to the authentication. The server may decrypt the encrypted credentials using an encryption key of the server. The server may send the decrypted credentials to the endpoint device to authenticate the user at the endpoint device.Type: GrantFiled: October 14, 2021Date of Patent: October 14, 2025Inventors: Chris Pavlou, Daniel G. Wing
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Publication number: 20250260718Abstract: In one embodiment, a device in a network receives an attack mitigation request regarding traffic in the network. The device causes an assessment of the traffic, in response to the attack mitigation request. The device determines that an attack detector associated with the attack mitigation request incorrectly assessed the traffic, based on the assessment of the traffic. The device causes an update to an attack detection model of the attack detector, in response to determining that the attack detector incorrectly assessed the traffic.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 10, 2025Publication date: August 14, 2025Inventors: K. Tirumaleswar Reddy, Daniel G. Wing, Blake Harrell Anderson, David McGrew
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Patent number: 12244640Abstract: In one embodiment, a device in a network receives an attack mitigation request regarding traffic in the network. The device causes an assessment of the traffic, in response to the attack mitigation request. The device determines that an attack detector associated with the attack mitigation request incorrectly assessed the traffic, based on the assessment of the traffic. The device causes an update to an attack detection model of the attack detector, in response to determining that the attack detector incorrectly assessed the traffic.Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 2023Date of Patent: March 4, 2025Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.Inventors: K. Tirumaleswar Reddy, Daniel G. Wing, Blake Harrell Anderson, David McGrew
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Patent number: 12218924Abstract: A first host receives a packet from a first compute node for a second compute node of a second host. The payload is larger than a maximum transmission unit size. The first packet is encapsulated with an outer header. The first host analyzes a length of at least a portion of the outer header in determining a size of an encrypted segment of the payload. Then, the first host forms a plurality of packets where each packet in the packets includes an encrypted segment of the payload, a respective encryption header, and a respective authentication value. The payload of the first packet is segmented to form a plurality of encrypted segments based on the size. The first host sends the packets to the second host and receives an indication that a packet was not received. A second packet including the encrypted segment is sent to the second compute node.Type: GrantFiled: August 15, 2023Date of Patent: February 4, 2025Assignee: NICIRA, INC.Inventors: Wenyi Jiang, Daniel G. Wing, Bin Qian, Dexiang Wang
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Patent number: 12120226Abstract: Described embodiments provide systems and methods for morphing or regenerating validation information. A client can receive, via a device, an authentication cookie for access to a server. The device may maintain a sequence number and a cryptographic secret. The client may use the cryptographic secret and a cookie engine to generate validation cookie information with an updated sequence number. The client may send the authentication cookie to the device via a hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP) message to validate the authentication cookie. The client may send the validation cookie information with the updated sequence number to the device via a HTTP message to validate the authentication cookie.Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 2020Date of Patent: October 15, 2024Assignee: Citrix Systems, Inc.Inventors: Daniel G. Wing, Ratnesh Singh Thakur, Arkesh Kumar, Raghukrishna Hegde, Nivedita Jagdale, Ramachandra Kasyap Marmavula, Joseph Hoelbrandt, Girish Chandra Padhi
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Patent number: 12093356Abstract: A method may include receiving, by a computing system and from a first device, first data. The first data may be based at least in part on a first output from a first instance of a model processed by the first device. The method may further include receiving, by the computing system and from the first device, second data that was processed by the first instance of the model to produce the first output. The method may also include processing, by the computing system, the second data with at least a portion of a second instance of the model to produce a second output. The method may additionally include determining, by the computing system, third data based at least in part on the second output. Further, the method may include determining, by the computing system, that the third data is consistent with the first data.Type: GrantFiled: February 9, 2021Date of Patent: September 17, 2024Assignee: Citrix Systems, Inc.Inventors: Daniel G. Wing, Asterios Stergioudis, Manbinder Pal Singh, Pratik Shah
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Publication number: 20240259422Abstract: In one embodiment, a device in a network receives an attack mitigation request regarding traffic in the network. The device causes an assessment of the traffic, in response to the attack mitigation request. The device determines that an attack detector associated with the attack mitigation request incorrectly assessed the traffic, based on the assessment of the traffic. The device causes an update to an attack detection model of the attack detector, in response to determining that the attack detector incorrectly assessed the traffic.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 11, 2023Publication date: August 1, 2024Inventors: K. Tirumaleswar Reddy, Daniel G. Wing, Blake Harrell Anderson, David McGrew
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Patent number: 11997135Abstract: A computer system is provided. The computer system includes a memory and at least one processor coupled to the memory and configured to protect against theft of user credentials. The at least one processor is further configured to recognize a uniform resource locator (URL) to which a web browser is navigating, as a URL for which protection is to be provided. The recognition is based on an absence of the URL from a history of visited URLs for which a password has been entered. The at least one processor is further configured to extract a character sequence of selected length that is entered into a field of a website associated with the recognized URL; compare an encryption of the character sequence to entries in a list of encrypted partial passwords of the same selected length; and perform a security action in response to a match resulting from the comparison.Type: GrantFiled: December 29, 2020Date of Patent: May 28, 2024Assignee: Citrix Systems, Inc.Inventors: Daniel G. Wing, Manbinder Pal Singh
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Patent number: 11936613Abstract: The method for a virtual machine to use a port and loopback IP addresses allocation scheme for full-mesh communications with transparent transport layer security tunnels is presented. In an embodiment, the method comprises detecting, at a redirect agent implemented in a first machine, a packet that is sent from a client application executing on the first machine toward a server application executing on a second machine; and determining, by the redirect agent, whether a first redirect rule matches the packet. In response to determining that the first redirect rule matches the packet, the redirect agent applies the first redirect rule to the packet to translate the packet into a translated packet, and provides the translated packet to a client agent implemented in the first machine to cause the client agent to transmit the translated packet to a server agent implemented in the second machine.Type: GrantFiled: July 9, 2021Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: VMware, Inc.Inventors: Daniel G. Wing, Dexiang Wang, Nidheesh Dubey
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Patent number: 11843632Abstract: In one embodiment, a device in a network receives an attack mitigation request regarding traffic in the network. The device causes an assessment of the traffic, in response to the attack mitigation request. The device determines that an attack detector associated with the attack mitigation request incorrectly assessed the traffic, based on the assessment of the traffic. The device causes an update to an attack detection model of the attack detector, in response to determining that the attack detector incorrectly assessed the traffic.Type: GrantFiled: January 12, 2023Date of Patent: December 12, 2023Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.Inventors: K. Tirumaleswar Reddy, Daniel G. Wing, Blake Harrell Anderson, David McGrew
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Publication number: 20230396598Abstract: A first host receives a packet from a first compute node for a second compute node of a second host. The payload is larger than a maximum transmission unit size. The first packet is encapsulated with an outer header. The first host analyzes a length of at least a portion of the outer header in determining a size of an encrypted segment of the payload. Then, the first host forms a plurality of packets where each packet in the packets includes an encrypted segment of the payload, a respective encryption header, and a respective authentication value. The payload of the first packet is segmented to form a plurality of encrypted segments based on the size. The first host sends the packets to the second host and receives an indication that a packet was not received. A second packet including the encrypted segment is sent to the second compute node.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 15, 2023Publication date: December 7, 2023Inventors: Wenyi JIANG, Daniel G. WING, Bin QIAN, Dexiang WANG
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Patent number: 11785041Abstract: In one embodiment, a device in a network captures domain name system (DNS) response data from a DNS response sent by a DNS service to a client in the network. The device captures session data for an encrypted session of the client. The device makes a determination that the encrypted session is malicious by using the captured DNS response data and the captured session data as input to a machine learning-based or rule-based classifier. The device performs a mediation action in response to the determination that the encrypted session is malicious.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 2022Date of Patent: October 10, 2023Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.Inventors: David McGrew, Blake Harrell Anderson, Daniel G. Wing, Flemming Andreasen
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Patent number: 11741200Abstract: A computer system is provided. The computer system includes a memory and at least one processor coupled to the memory and configured to receive a sequence of characters within a field of a web browser, the field being associated with a password entry field served to the web browser from a website. The processor is further configured to store the received sequence of characters and send an alternate sequence of characters to the website. The processor is further configured to encrypt the received sequence of characters to generate a received encrypted partial password and compare the received encrypted partial password to one or more entries in a list of encrypted partial passwords. The processor is further configured to, in response to the comparison resulting in a difference, delete the previously sent alternate sequence of characters, and send the stored sequence of characters to the website.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 2021Date of Patent: August 29, 2023Inventors: Manbinder Pal Singh, Daniel G. Wing
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Patent number: 11729155Abstract: A first host receives a packet from a first compute node for a second compute node of a second host. The payload is larger than a maximum transmission unit size. The first packet is encapsulated with an outer header. The first host analyzes a length of at least a portion of the outer header in determining a size of an encrypted segment of the payload. Then, the first host forms a plurality of packets where each packet in the packets includes an encrypted segment of the payload, a respective encryption header, and a respective authentication value. The payload of the first packet is segmented to form a plurality of encrypted segments based on the size. The first host sends the packets to the second host and receives an indication that a packet was not received. A second packet including the encrypted segment is sent to the second compute node.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2021Date of Patent: August 15, 2023Assignee: NICIRA, INC.Inventors: Wenyi Jiang, Daniel G. Wing, Bin Qian, Dexiang Wang
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Patent number: 11711336Abstract: In one embodiment, a device in a network receives domain name system (DNS) information for a domain. The DNS information includes one or more service tags indicative of one or more services offered by the domain. The device detects an encrypted traffic flow associated with the domain. The device identifies a service associated with the encrypted traffic flow based on the one or more service tags. The device prioritizes the encrypted traffic flow based on the identified service associated with the encrypted traffic flow.Type: GrantFiled: September 3, 2021Date of Patent: July 25, 2023Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.Inventors: K. Tirumaleswar Reddy, David McGrew, Blake Harrell Anderson, Daniel G. Wing
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Patent number: 11700275Abstract: A method comprises receiving, at a network infrastructure device, a flow of packets, determining, using the network infrastructure device and for a first subset of the packets, that the first subset corresponds to a first datagram and determining a first length of the first datagram, determining, using the network infrastructure device and for a second subset of the packets, that the second subset corresponds to a second datagram that was received after the first datagram, and determining a second length of the second datagram, determining, using the network infrastructure device, a duration value between a first arrival time of the first datagram and a second arrival time of the second datagram, sending, to a collector device that is separate from the network infrastructure device, the first length, the second length, and the duration value for analysis.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2021Date of Patent: July 11, 2023Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.Inventors: David McGrew, Andrew Zawadowskiy, Donovan O'Hara, Saravanan Radhakrishnan, Tomas Pevny, Daniel G. Wing
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Patent number: 11677713Abstract: A domain-name-based network-connection attestation system provides for more user friendly and less error prone (compared to IP-address-based attestation systems) updating of a whitelist used to determine whether or not to allow a requested network connection. A guest agent extracts from a DNS reply a domain name, and an IP address mapped to a domain name. The agent enters these values in an agent DNS cache. When a process requests a connection to an IP address, the agent uses the IP address to determine the domain name from the agent DNS cache. The agent then determines whether the IP address is mapped to the process identity in a domain-name-based whitelist. If it is, the connection is attested to and allowed; if it is not, a secondary IP address whitelist can be checked.Type: GrantFiled: January 22, 2019Date of Patent: June 13, 2023Assignee: VMware, Inc.Inventors: Kanika Nema, Daniel G. Wing, Goresh Musalay
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Patent number: 11665194Abstract: In one embodiment, a device in a network receives an attack mitigation request regarding traffic in the network. The device causes an assessment of the traffic, in response to the attack mitigation request. The device determines that an attack detector associated with the attack mitigation request incorrectly assessed the traffic, based on the assessment of the traffic. The device causes an update to an attack detection model of the attack detector, in response to determining that the attack detector incorrectly assessed the traffic.Type: GrantFiled: August 5, 2021Date of Patent: May 30, 2023Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.Inventors: K. Tirumaleswar Reddy, Daniel G. Wing, Blake Harrell Anderson, David McGrew
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Publication number: 20230146962Abstract: In one embodiment, a device in a network receives an attack mitigation request regarding traffic in the network. The device causes an assessment of the traffic, in response to the attack mitigation request. The device determines that an attack detector associated with the attack mitigation request incorrectly assessed the traffic, based on the assessment of the traffic. The device causes an update to an attack detection model of the attack detector, in response to determining that the attack detector incorrectly assessed the traffic.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 12, 2023Publication date: May 11, 2023Inventors: K. Tirumaleswar Reddy, Daniel G. Wing, Blake Harrell Anderson, David McGrew
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Publication number: 20230122215Abstract: Described embodiments provide systems and methods for securely storing private information of a user on a device of the user. A server may register a mobile device to store credentials of a user thereon, based on authentication of the user of the mobile device. The server may encrypt credentials of the user using a key of the server. The server may send the encrypted credentials to the registered mobile device for storage thereon without the key. The server may send a code to an endpoint device to initiate authentication of the user with use of the mobile device. The server may receive the encrypted credentials from the mobile device in response to the authentication. The server may decrypt the encrypted credentials using an encryption key of the server. The server may send the decrypted credentials to the endpoint device to authenticate the user at the endpoint device.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 14, 2021Publication date: April 20, 2023Applicant: Citrix Systems, Inc.Inventors: Chris Pavlou, Daniel G. Wing