Patents by Inventor Ellen E. Cram

Ellen E. Cram 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).

  • Providing multi-level password and phishing protection
    Patent number: 9407654
    Abstract: Embodiments described herein are directed to preventing development of insecure web pages, preventing deployment of insecure web pages and to preventing access to insecure web pages. In one embodiment, a computer system accesses a web page that includes one or more web elements. The computer system then determines that the web page includes at least one element that requests user authentication and determines whether various specified secure protocols have been implemented on the web page. Then, if the specified secure protocols have not been implemented on the web page, the computer system displays a warning or error indicating that the web page is insecure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2016
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Scott A. Field, Ellen E. Cram, Julian Federico Gonzalez
  • PROVIDING MULTI-LEVEL PASSWORD AND PHISHING PROTECTION
    Publication number: 20150271197
    Abstract: Embodiments described herein are directed to preventing development of insecure web pages, preventing deployment of insecure web pages and to preventing access to insecure web pages. In one embodiment, a computer system accesses a web page that includes one or more web elements. The computer system then determines that the web page includes at least one element that requests user authentication and determines whether various specified secure protocols have been implemented on the web page. Then, if the specified secure protocols have not been implemented on the web page, the computer system displays a warning or error indicating that the web page is insecure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2014
    Publication date: September 24, 2015
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Scott A. Field, Ellen E. Cram, Julian Federico Gonzalez