Patents by Inventor Dean Mekkawy
Dean Mekkawy 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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Publication number: 20250106262Abstract: A method includes identifying a first group of objects generated by security tools during a first time interval and containing cotemporal, analogous characteristics identifying a first endpoint device connected to a computer network; based on the first group of objects, confirming detection of the first endpoint device by a first security tool and a second security tool during the first time interval; identifying a second group of objects generated by security tools during a second time interval and containing cotemporal, analogous characteristics identifying the first endpoint device; based on the second group of objects, confirming detection of the first endpoint device by the second security tool during the second time interval; and responsive to absence of detection of the first endpoint device by the first security tool during the second time interval, generating a source remove event specifying removal of the first security tool from the first endpoint device.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 9, 2024Publication date: March 27, 2025Inventors: Jeffrey J. Guy, Dean Mekkawy, Jeremiah Clark, Nevins Bartolomeo, Luis Diego Cabezas
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Patent number: 12206712Abstract: A method includes identifying a first group of objects generated by security tools during a first time interval and containing cotemporal, analogous characteristics identifying a first endpoint device connected to a computer network; based on the first group of objects, confirming detection of the first endpoint device by a first security tool and a second security tool during the first time interval; identifying a second group of objects generated by security tools during a second time interval and containing cotemporal, analogous characteristics identifying the first endpoint device; based on the second group of objects, confirming detection of the first endpoint device by the second security tool during the second time interval; and responsive to absence of detection of the first endpoint device by the first security tool during the second time interval, generating a source remove event specifying removal of the first security tool from the first endpoint device.Type: GrantFiled: April 12, 2023Date of Patent: January 21, 2025Assignee: Sevco Security, Inc.Inventors: Jeffrey J. Guy, Dean Mekkawy, Jeremiah Clark, Nevins Bartolomeo, Luis Diego Cabezas
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Publication number: 20240406184Abstract: A method for monitoring endpoint devices affiliated with a computer network includes: for each security technology, accessing a set of objects generated by the security technology during a time interval and representing characteristics endpoint devices configured with the security technology, partitioning object groups representing individual endpoint devices, and aggregating characteristics represented in each object group into an endpoint device container associated with the security technology and containing identifying data and status data representing one endpoint device; identifying a first subset of endpoint devices configured with first and second security technologies based on correspondence between data contained endpoint device containers associated with the first and second security technologies; and identifying a second subset of endpoint devices configured with the first security technology and excluding the second security technology based on absence of correspondence between data contained inType: ApplicationFiled: August 8, 2024Publication date: December 5, 2024Inventors: Jeffrey J. Guy, Greg Fitzgerald, Jeremiah Clark, Dean Mekkawy, Nevins Bartolomeo, Jim LoRusso, Nick Murdock, Allen Saunders, Jacob Hackett
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Publication number: 20240364695Abstract: A method includes: accessing objects, generated by a set of sources, representing attributes of assets, affiliated with a computer network, including a set of endpoint devices and a first application; partitioning the objects into object groups including a first object group representing the first application; aggregating objects in the first object group into a first user container representing the first application during the first time interval; and, in response to selection of the first application at an operator portal: generating a visualization representing a subset of endpoint devices, in the set of endpoint devices, on which the first application is installed during the first time interval based on a set of attributes, exhibited by the first application during the first time interval, contained in the first application container; and rendering the visualization at the operator interface.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 28, 2024Publication date: October 31, 2024Inventors: Jeffrey J. Guy, Dean Mekkawy, Nevins Bartolomeo, Luis Diego Cabezas, Aaron Griffin, Jacob Hackett, Michael Alfonse, Craig Cason, Mark Shipley, Jason McFarland, Nicholas Murdock, Steve Taylor, Aaron Smith
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Patent number: 12088597Abstract: A method for monitoring endpoint devices affiliated with a computer network includes: for each security technology, accessing a set of objects generated by the security technology during a time interval and representing characteristics endpoint devices configured with the security technology, partitioning object groups representing individual endpoint devices, and aggregating characteristics represented in each object group into an endpoint device container associated with the security technology and containing identifying data and status data representing one endpoint device; identifying a first subset of endpoint devices configured with first and second security technologies based on correspondence between data contained endpoint device containers associated with the first and second security technologies; and identifying a second subset of endpoint devices configured with the first security technology and excluding the second security technology based on absence of correspondence between data contained inType: GrantFiled: March 31, 2023Date of Patent: September 10, 2024Assignee: Sevco Security, Inc.Inventors: Jeffrey J. Guy, Greg Fitzgerald, Jeremiah Clark, Dean Mekkawy, Nevins Bartolomeo, Jim LoRusso, Nick Murdock, Allen Saunders, Jacob Hackett
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Patent number: 12034735Abstract: A method includes: accessing objects, generated by a set of sources, representing attributes of assets, affiliated with a computer network, including a set of endpoint devices and a first application; partitioning the objects into object groups including a first object group representing the first application; aggregating objects in the first object group into a first user container representing the first application during the first time interval; and, in response to selection of the first application at an operator portal: generating a visualization representing a subset of endpoint devices, in the set of endpoint devices, on which the first application is installed during the first time interval based on a set of attributes, exhibited by the first application during the first time interval, contained in the first application container; and rendering the visualization at the operator interface.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 2023Date of Patent: July 9, 2024Assignee: Sevco Security, Inc.Inventors: Jeffrey J. Guy, Dean Mekkawy, Nevins Bartolomeo, Luis Diego Cabezas, Aaron Griffin, Jacob Hackett, Michael Alfonse, Craig Cason, Mark Shipley, Jason McFarland, Nicholas Murdock, Steve Taylor, Aaron Smith
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Publication number: 20240193694Abstract: A method includes: accessing a first set of attributes exhibited by a first asset during a time interval; identifying a first association between the first asset and a second asset based on the first set of attributes; accessing a second set of attributes exhibited by the second asset during the time interval; based on the first association between the first asset and the second asset, associating the first asset with a first subset of attributes in the second set of attributes; identifying an asset group, including the first asset, exhibiting a target combination of attributes during the time interval based on the target combination of attributes represented in the first set of attributes and the first subset of attributes, in the second set of attributes, associated with the first asset; and executing an action on assets in the asset group.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 7, 2023Publication date: June 13, 2024Inventors: Aaron Griffin, Mark Russo, Mark Shipley, Nevins Bartolomeo, Luis Diego Cabezas, Dean Mekkawy, Jeremiah Clark, Craig Cason, Steve Taylor, Jacob Hackett
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Publication number: 20240187455Abstract: A method includes: generating a manifest of assets during the target time interval; labeling each asset in the manifest of assets with a set of attributes exhibited by the asset during the target time interval; defining a first attribute category exhibiting a first combination of attributes; assigning a first action to the first attribute category; identifying a subset of assets in the manifest of assets matching the first attribute category, each asset in the subset of assets exhibiting a set of attributes including the first combination of attributes; and executing the first action on the first subset of assets.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 15, 2023Publication date: June 6, 2024Inventors: Jeffrey J. Guy, Dean Mekkawy, Jeremiah Clark, Nevins Bartolomeo, Aaron Griffin, Michael Alfonse, Jacob Hackett, Nick Murdock, Jim LoRusso, Jason McFarland, Luis Diego Cabezas
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Patent number: 11882157Abstract: A method includes: generating a manifest of assets during the target time interval; labeling each asset in the manifest of assets with a set of attributes exhibited by the asset during the target time interval; defining a first attribute category exhibiting a first combination of attributes; assigning a first action to the first attribute category; identifying a subset of assets in the manifest of assets matching the first attribute category, each asset in the subset of assets exhibiting a set of attributes including the first combination of attributes; and executing the first action on the first subset of assets.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 2023Date of Patent: January 23, 2024Assignee: Sevco Security, Inc.Inventors: Jeffrey J. Guy, Dean Mekkawy, Jeremiah Clark, Nevins Bartolemeo, Aaron Griffin, Michael Alfonse, Jacob Hackett, Nick Murdock, Jim LoRusso, Jason McFarland, Luis Diego Cabezas
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Publication number: 20240015164Abstract: A method includes: accessing objects, generated by a set of sources, representing attributes of users affiliated with a computer network; partitioning the objects into object groups, each object group representing a particular user; for each object group, aggregating objects in the object group into a user container, in a set of user containers, representing a user during the first time interval; generating a manifest of users affiliated with the computer network during the first time interval based on the set of user containers; and, in response to selection of a first user in the manifest of users at an operator portal: generating a visualization representing a set of attributes exhibited by the first user during the first time interval.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 22, 2023Publication date: January 11, 2024Inventors: Jeffrey J. Guy, Dean Mekkawy, Nevins Bartolomeo, Luis Diego Cabezas, Aaron Griffin, Jake Hackett, Michael Alfonse, Craig Cason, Mark Shipley, Jason McFarland, Nicholas Murdock, Steve Taylor, Aaron Smith
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Publication number: 20240015165Abstract: A method includes: accessing objects, generated by a set of sources, representing attributes of assets, affiliated with a computer network, including a set of endpoint devices and a first application; partitioning the objects into object groups including a first object group representing the first application; aggregating objects in the first object group into a first user container representing the first application during the first time interval; and, in response to selection of the first application at an operator portal: generating a visualization representing a subset of endpoint devices, in the set of endpoint devices, on which the first application is installed during the first time interval based on a set of attributes, exhibited by the first application during the first time interval, contained in the first application container; and rendering the visualization at the operator interface.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 22, 2023Publication date: January 11, 2024Inventors: Jeffrey J. Guy, Dean Mekkawy, Nevins Bartolomeo, Luis Diego Cabezas, Aaron Griffin, Jake Hackett, Michael Alfonse, Craig Cason, Mark Shipley, Jason McFarland, Nicholas Murdock, Steve Taylor, Aaron Smith
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Publication number: 20230328108Abstract: A method includes identifying a first group of objects generated by security tools during a first time interval and containing cotemporal, analogous characteristics identifying a first endpoint device connected to a computer network; based on the first group of objects, confirming detection of the first endpoint device by a first security tool and a second security tool during the first time interval; identifying a second group of objects generated by security tools during a second time interval and containing cotemporal, analogous characteristics identifying the first endpoint device; based on the second group of objects, confirming detection of the first endpoint device by the second security tool during the second time interval; and responsive to absence of detection of the first endpoint device by the first security tool during the second time interval, generating a source remove event specifying removal of the first security tool from the first endpoint device.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 12, 2023Publication date: October 12, 2023Inventors: Jeffrey J. Guy, Dean Mekkawy, Jeremiah Clark, Nevins Bartolomeo, Luis Diego Cabezas
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Publication number: 20230308452Abstract: A method for monitoring endpoint devices affiliated with a computer network includes: for each security technology, accessing a set of objects generated by the security technology during a time interval and representing characteristics endpoint devices configured with the security technology, partitioning object groups representing individual endpoint devices, and aggregating characteristics represented in each object group into an endpoint device container associated with the security technology and containing identifying data and status data representing one endpoint device; identifying a first subset of endpoint devices configured with first and second security technologies based on correspondence between data contained endpoint device containers associated with the first and second security technologies; and identifying a second subset of endpoint devices configured with the first security technology and excluding the second security technology based on absence of correspondence between data contained inType: ApplicationFiled: March 31, 2023Publication date: September 28, 2023Inventors: Jeffrey J. Guy, Greg Fitzgerald, Jeremiah Clark, Dean Mekkawy, Nevins Bartolomeo, Jim LoRusso, Nick Murdock, Allen Saunders, Jacob Hackett
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Publication number: 20230247057Abstract: A method includes: generating a manifest of assets during the target time interval; labeling each asset in the manifest of assets with a set of attributes exhibited by the asset during the target time interval; defining a first attribute category exhibiting a first combination of attributes; assigning a first action to the first attribute category; identifying a subset of assets in the manifest of assets matching the first attribute category, each asset in the subset of assets exhibiting a set of attributes including the first combination of attributes; and executing the first action on the first subset of assets.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 25, 2023Publication date: August 3, 2023Inventors: Jeffrey J. Guy, Dean Mekkawy, Jeremiah Clark, Nevins Bartolemeo, Aaron Griffin, Michael Alfonse, Jake Hackett, Nick Murdock, Jim LoRusso, Jason McFarland, Luis Diego Cabezas
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Patent number: 11659008Abstract: A method includes identifying a first group of objects generated by security tools during a first time interval and containing cotemporal, analogous characteristics identifying a first endpoint device connected to a computer network; based on the first group of objects, confirming detection of the first endpoint device by a first security tool and a second security tool during the first time interval; identifying a second group of objects generated by security tools during a second time interval and containing cotemporal, analogous characteristics identifying the first endpoint device; based on the second group of objects, confirming detection of the first endpoint device by the second security tool during the second time interval; and responsive to absence of detection of the first endpoint device by the first security tool during the second time interval, generating a source remove event specifying removal of the first security tool from the first endpoint device.Type: GrantFiled: July 8, 2022Date of Patent: May 23, 2023Assignee: Sevco Security, Inc.Inventors: Jeffrey J. Guy, Dean Mekkawy, Jeremiah Clark, Nevins Bartolomeo, Luis Diego Cabezas
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Patent number: 11647027Abstract: A method for monitoring endpoint devices affiliated with a computer network includes: for each security technology, accessing a set of objects generated by the security technology during a time interval and representing characteristics endpoint devices configured with the security technology, partitioning object groups representing individual endpoint devices, and aggregating characteristics represented in each object group into an endpoint device container associated with the security technology and containing identifying data and status data representing one endpoint device; identifying a first subset of endpoint devices configured with first and second security technologies based on correspondence between data contained endpoint device containers associated with the first and second security technologies; and identifying a second subset of endpoint devices configured with the first security technology and excluding the second security technology based on absence of correspondence between data contained inType: GrantFiled: April 13, 2022Date of Patent: May 9, 2023Assignee: Sevco Security, Inc.Inventors: Jeffrey J. Guy, Greg Fitzgerald, Jeremiah Clark, Dean Mekkawy, Nevins Bartolomeo, Jim LoRusso, Nick Murdock, Allen Saunders, Jacob Hackett
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Publication number: 20230007047Abstract: A method includes identifying a first group of objects generated by security tools during a first time interval and containing cotemporal, analogous characteristics identifying a first endpoint device connected to a computer network; based on the first group of objects, confirming detection of the first endpoint device by a first security tool and a second security tool during the first time interval; identifying a second group of objects generated by security tools during a second time interval and containing cotemporal, analogous characteristics identifying the first endpoint device; based on the second group of objects, confirming detection of the first endpoint device by the second security tool during the second time interval; and responsive to absence of detection of the first endpoint device by the first security tool during the second time interval, generating a source remove event specifying removal of the first security tool from the first endpoint device.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 8, 2022Publication date: January 5, 2023Inventors: Jeffrey J. Guy, Dean Mekkawy, Jeremiah Clark, Nevins Bartolomeo, Luis Diego Cabezas
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Publication number: 20220329604Abstract: A method for monitoring endpoint devices affiliated with a computer network includes: for each security technology, accessing a set of objects generated by the security technology during a time interval and representing characteristics endpoint devices configured with the security technology, partitioning object groups representing individual endpoint devices, and aggregating characteristics represented in each object group into an endpoint device container associated with the security technology and containing identifying data and status data representing one endpoint device; identifying a first subset of endpoint devices configured with first and second security technologies based on correspondence between data contained endpoint device containers associated with the first and second security technologies; and identifying a second subset of endpoint devices configured with the first security technology and excluding the second security technology based on absence of correspondence between data contained inType: ApplicationFiled: April 13, 2022Publication date: October 13, 2022Inventors: Jeffrey J. Guy, Greg Fitzgerald, Jeremiah Clark, Dean Mekkawy, Nevins Bartolomeo, Jim LoRusso, Nick Murdock, Allen Saunders, Jacob Hackett