Patents by Inventor Dennis Lee Edwards

Dennis Lee Edwards 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).

  • Patent number: 9876701
    Abstract: An indexing arrangement enables efficient search and retrieval of indexes persistently stored in a metadata repository and used to locate packets captured from a network and persistently stored in a data repository. The packets are captured at a packet capture and retrieval system having persistent storage devices organized as files of the metadata and data repositories. Search and retrieval of the indexes within the files of the metadata repository occur at substantially a same time as one or more other captured packets is written to one or more files of the data repository to realize a substantially high sustained packet transfer rate of the network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2018
    Assignee: FireEye, Inc.
    Inventors: Randy I. Caldejon, Dennis Lee Edwards, Christopher Hayes Fauerbach
  • Patent number: 9704468
    Abstract: The embodiments herein provide an apparatus and method for cancelling signal noise. According to one embodiment, an apparatus for cancelling signal noise has a sensor or receiver to capture the undesirable signals. A transducer converts the energy of the captured signals and modulates the captured undesirable signals. A signal inverting circuit is connected to the transducer to generate the inverse of the captured undesirable signals by inverting the amplitude of the undesirable signal while maintain the frequency at the same level. The generated inverse of the undesirable signal transmitted by a transmitter is received by a receiver and output through a speaker so that the output inverse of the undesirable signal is combined with the undesirable signal to produce a desired signal environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2017
    Assignee: UNR, LLC.
    Inventors: Lance Samuel Davidson, Dennis Lee Edwards
  • Patent number: 9674298
    Abstract: A secondary indexing technique cooperates with primary indices of an indexing arrangement to enable efficient storage and access of metadata used to retrieve packets persistently stored in data files of a data repository. Efficient storage and access of the metadata used to retrieve the persistently stored packets may be based on a target value of the packets over a search time window. The metadata is illustratively organized as a metadata repository of primary index files that store the primary indices containing hash values of network flows of the packets, as well as offsets and paths to those packets stored in the data files. The technique includes one or more secondary indices having a plurality of present bits arranged in a binary format (i.e., a bit array) to indicate the presence of the target value in one or more packets stored in the data files over the search time window. Notably, the present bits may be used to reduce (i.e., “prune”) a relatively large search space of the stored packets (e.g.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2017
    Assignee: FireEye, Inc.
    Inventors: Dennis Lee Edwards, Christopher Hayes Fauerbach
  • Patent number: 9537972
    Abstract: A secondary indexing technique cooperates with primary indices of an indexing arrangement to enable efficient storage and access of metadata used to retrieve packets persistently stored in data files of a data repository. Efficient storage and access of the metadata used to retrieve the persistently stored packets may be based on a target value of the packets over a search time window. The metadata is illustratively organized as a metadata repository of primary index files that store the primary indices containing hash values of network flows of the packets, as well as offsets and paths to those packets stored in the data files. The technique includes one or more secondary indices having a plurality of present bits arranged in a binary format (i.e., a bit array) to indicate the presence of the target value in one or more packets stored in the data files over the search time window. Notably, the present bits may be used to reduce (i.e., “prune”) a relatively large search space of the stored packets (e.g.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2017
    Assignee: FireEye, Inc.
    Inventors: Dennis Lee Edwards, Christopher Hayes Fauerbach
  • Patent number: 9426071
    Abstract: A processing technique provides an improved indexing arrangement that enables storage, filtering and querying of metadata used to retrieve packets captured from a network and persistently stored in a data repository. A packet capture engine records the packets in packet capture (PCAP) formats from a network link at a substantially high packet transfer rate to persistent storage of the data repository in a sustained manner. Efficient filtering and querying of the metadata to retrieve the stored packets may be achieved, in part, by organizing the metadata as one or more metadata repositories. The processing technique uses the Berkeley Packet Filter (BPF) language as an interface of a BPF engine to search or index the stored packets in response to queries. The BPF engine processes BPF expressions used as precursors to the indexing arrangement to enable access to the repositories when searching and locating stored packets matching the expressions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2016
    Assignee: FireEye, Inc.
    Inventors: Randy I. Caldejon, Dennis Lee Edwards, Christopher Hayes Fauerbach
  • Publication number: 20160019880
    Abstract: The embodiments herein provide an apparatus and method for cancelling signal noise. According to one embodiment, an apparatus for cancelling signal noise has a sensor or receiver to capture the undesirable signals. A transducer converts the energy of the captured signals and modulates the captured undesirable signals. A signal inverting circuit is connected to the transducer to generate the inverse of the captured undesirable signals by inverting the amplitude of the undesirable signal while maintain the frequency at the same level. The generated inverse of the undesirable signal transmitted by a transmitter is received by a receiver and output through a speaker so that the output inverse of the undesirable signal is combined with the undesirable signal to produce a desired signal environment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2015
    Publication date: January 21, 2016
    Inventors: LANCE SAMUEL DAVIDSON, DENNIS LEE EDWARDS
  • Patent number: 9171537
    Abstract: The embodiments herein provide an apparatus and method for cancelling signal noise. According to one embodiment, an apparatus for cancelling signal noise has a sensor or receiver to capture the undesirable signals. A transducer converts the energy of the captured signals and modulates the captured undesirable signals. A signal inverting circuit is connected to the transducer to generate the inverse of the captured undesirable signals by inverting the amplitude of the undesirable signal while maintain the frequency at the same level. The generated inverse of the undesirable signal transmitted by a transmitter is received by a receiver and output through a speaker so that the output inverse of the undesirable signal is combined with the undesirable signal to produce a desired signal environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2015
    Assignee: UNR, LLC
    Inventors: Lance Samuel Davidson, Dennis Lee Edwards
  • Publication number: 20100150366
    Abstract: The embodiments herein provide an apparatus and method for cancelling signal noise. According to one embodiment, an apparatus for cancelling signal noise has a sensor or receiver to capture the undesirable signals. A transducer converts the energy of the captured signals and modulates the captured undesirable signals. A signal inverting circuit is connected to the transducer to generate the inverse of the captured undesirable signals by inverting the amplitude of the undesirable signal while maintain the frequency at the same level. The generated inverse of the undesirable signal transmitted by a transmitter is received by a receiver and output through a speaker so that the output inverse of the undesirable signal is combined with the undesirable signal to produce a desired signal environment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2009
    Publication date: June 17, 2010
    Applicant: UNR, LLC,
    Inventors: Lance Samuel Davidson, Dennis Lee Edwards
  • Patent number: D457120
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2002
    Assignees: Sika Corporation, Daimler Chrysler Corporation
    Inventors: Natalino Broccardo, Dennis Lee Edwards, Randy Stratman, Gerald Fitzgerald