Patents by Inventor Eoin Carroll

Eoin Carroll 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: 11706622
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and media for protected near-field communications are provided. In some embodiments, the method comprises: receiving, from an NFC tag device, a request for an NFC reader device identifier (ID); transmitting the NFC reader device ID to the NFC tag device; receiving an NFC tag device ID; determining whether the NFC tag device ID matches an NFC tag device ID stored in memory of the NFC reader device; in response to determining that the NFC tag device ID matches the NFC tag device ID, transmitting a password to the NFC tag device; receiving, from the NFC tag device, a shared secret; determining whether the received shared secret matches a shared secret stored in the memory of the NFC reader device; and in response to determining that the received shared secret matches the shared secret, causing an action to be performed by a device associated with the NFC reader device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: McAfee, LLC
    Inventor: Eoin Carroll
  • Patent number: 11375371
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and media for protected near-field communications are provided. In some embodiments, the method comprises: receiving, from an NFC tag device, a request for an NFC reader device identifier (ID); transmitting the NFC reader device ID to the NFC tag device; receiving an NFC tag device ID; determining whether the NFC tag device ID matches an NFC tag device ID stored in memory of the NFC reader device; in response to determining that the NFC tag device ID matches the NFC tag device ID, transmitting a password to the NFC tag device; receiving, from the NFC tag device, a shared secret; determining whether the received shared secret matches a shared secret stored in the memory of the NFC reader device; and in response to determining that the received shared secret matches the shared secret, causing an action to be performed by a device associated with the NFC reader device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: McAfee, LLC
    Inventor: Eoin Carroll
  • Publication number: 20220188937
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a computer system, a computer program product, and a method that comprises identifying claim data from a received data set associated with a user; analyzing the identified claim data based on a historical database of claim information associated with the user; retrieving expert information associated with the analysis of the identified claim data; extracting the identified claim data based on a comparison of the analysis of identified claim data and the retrieved expert information associated with the claim data by normalizing a range of features of the analyzed data; dynamically determining an overall risk score associated with the extracted claim data; and dynamically transmitting the extracted claim data to a different computing device associated with a different user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2020
    Publication date: June 16, 2022
    Inventors: Joao H. Bettencourt-Silva, Eoin Carroll, Vanessa Lopez Garcia, Marco Luca Sbodio