Patents by Inventor Gerald E. Sullivan, II

Gerald E. Sullivan, II 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).

  • Vulnerability scanning of attack surfaces
    Patent number: 11695793
    Abstract: A method includes: identifying, by a runtime instrumentation agent of a web server, a plurality of attack surfaces of a web application executed on the web server; generating, by the runtime instrumentation agent, a plurality of hash values, where each hash value is generated based on one of the plurality of attack surfaces; and transmitting, by the runtime instrumentation agent, the plurality of hash values to an attack server external to the web server, where the attack server is to determine whether to scan each attack surface based on the plurality of hash values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: MICRO FOCUS LLC
    Inventors: Ming Sum Sam Ng, Sasi Siddharth Muthurajan, Nidhi Govindram Kejriwal, Gerald E. Sullivan, II, Alexander Hoole
  • VULNERABILITY SCANNING OF ATTACK SURFACES
    Publication number: 20190132348
    Abstract: A method includes: identifying, by a runtime instrumentation agent of a web server, a plurality of attack surfaces of a web application executed on the web server; generating, by the runtime instrumentation agent, a plurality of hash values, where each hash value is generated based on one of the plurality of attack surfaces; and transmitting, by the runtime instrumentation agent, the plurality of hash values to an attack server external to the web server, where the attack server is to determine whether to scan each attack surface based on the plurality of hash values.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2017
    Publication date: May 2, 2019
    Inventors: Ming Sum Sam Ng, Sasi Siddharth Muthurajan, Nidhi Govindram Kejriwal, Gerald E. Sullivan, II, Alexander Hoole