Patents by Inventor Howard C. Herbert

Howard C. Herbert 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: 11765239
    Abstract: Technologies disclosed herein provide a method for receiving at a device from a remote server, a request for state information from a first processor of the device, obtaining the state information from one or more registers of the first processor based on a request structure indicated by a first instruction of a software program executing on the device, and generating a response structure based, at least in part, on the obtained state information. The method further includes using a cryptographic algorithm and a shared key established between the device and the remote server to generate a signature based, at least in part, on the response structure, and communicating the response structure and the signature to the remote server. In more specific embodiments, both the response structure and the request structure each include a same nonce value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Prashant Dewan, Siddhartha Chhabra, Uttam K. Sengupta, Howard C. Herbert
  • Publication number: 20220159081
    Abstract: Technologies disclosed herein provide a method for receiving at a device from a remote server, a request for state information from a first processor of the device, obtaining the state information from one or more registers of the first processor based on a request structure indicated by a first instruction of a software program executing on the device, and generating a response structure based, at least in part, on the obtained state information. The method further includes using a cryptographic algorithm and a shared key established between the device and the remote server to generate a signature based, at least in part, on the response structure, and communicating the response structure and the signature to the remote server. In more specific embodiments, both the response structure and the request structure each include a same nonce value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 2, 2022
    Publication date: May 19, 2022
    Applicant: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Prashant Dewan, Siddhartha Chhabra, Uttam K. Sengupta, Howard C. Herbert
  • Patent number: 11258861
    Abstract: Technologies disclosed herein provide a method for receiving at a device from a remote server, a request for state information from a first processor of the device, obtaining the state information from one or more registers of the first processor based on a request structure indicated by a first instruction of a software program executing on the device, and generating a response structure based, at least in part, on the obtained state information. The method further includes using a cryptographic algorithm and a shared key established between the device and the remote server to generate a signature based, at least in part, on the response structure, and communicating the response structure and the signature to the remote server. In more specific embodiments, both the response structure and the request structure each include a same nonce value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Prashant Dewan, Siddhartha Chhabra, Uttam K. Sengupta, Howard C. Herbert
  • Patent number: 10885202
    Abstract: A technique to enable secure application and data integrity within a computer system. In one embodiment, one or more secure enclaves are established in which an application and data may be stored and executed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Francis X. McKeen, Carlos V. Rozas, Uday R. Savagaonkar, Simon P. Johnson, Vincent Scarlata, Michael A. Goldsmith, Ernie Brickell, Jiang Tao Li, Howard C. Herbert, Prashant Dewan, Stephen J. Tolopka, Gilbert Neiger, David Durham, Gary Graunke, Bernard Lint, Don A. Van Dyke, Joseph Cihula, Stalinselvaraj Jeyasingh, Stephen R. Van Doren, Dion Rodgers, John Garney, Asher Altman
  • Patent number: 10754703
    Abstract: In an example, there is disclosed a computing apparatus, having a computing resource; a bespoke sensor for measuring at least one parameter of usage of the computing resource; and one or more logic elements providing a trusted compute meter (TCM) agent to: receive an external workload; provision a workload enclave; execute the external workload within the TCM enclave; and measure resource usage of the external workload via the bespoke sensor. There is also disclosed a computer-readable medium having stored thereon executable instructions for providing a TCM agent, and a method of providing a TCM agent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: McAfee, LLC
    Inventors: Howard C. Herbert, Jennifer Eligius Mankin, Simon Hunt, Venkata Ramanan Sambandam, Mark E. Scott-Nash, Katalin Klara Bartfai-Walcott, Rameshkumar Illikkal
  • Publication number: 20190158461
    Abstract: A custody transfer of a device can include sending a start of transfer request to an attestation device over a short range wireless communication channel, a nonce is received from the attestation device in association with the start of transfer request, and the nonce is signed at the particular gateway device. The signed nonce is sent to the attestation device, a transfer confirmation message is received from the attestation device, and a transfer message is sent to a management system to report a transfer in custody of the attestation device involving the particular gateway device and another gateway device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2019
    Publication date: May 23, 2019
    Applicant: McAfee, LLC
    Inventors: Jesse Randall Walker, Howard C. Herbert, Kirk D. Brannock, Geoffrey H. Cooper, David A. deVries, David M. Amols, Sven Schrecker, Stephen H. Price
  • Publication number: 20190087586
    Abstract: A technique to enable secure application and data integrity within a computer system. In one embodiment, one or more secure enclaves are established in which an application and data may be stored and executed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2018
    Publication date: March 21, 2019
    Inventors: Francis X. McKEEN, Carlos V. ROZAS, Uday R. SAVAGAONKAR, Simon P. JOHNSON, Vincent SCARLATA, Michael A. GOLDSMITH, Ernie BRICKELL, Jiang Tao LI, Howard C. HERBERT, Prashant DEWAN, Stephen J. TOLOPKA, Gilbert NEIGER, David DURHAM, Gary GRAUNKE, Bernard LINT, Don A. VAN DYKE, Joseph CIHULA, Stalinselvaraj JEYASINGH, Stephen R. VAN DOREN, Dion RODGERS, John GARNEY, Asher ALTMAN
  • Publication number: 20190045016
    Abstract: Technologies disclosed herein provide a method for receiving at a device from a remote server, a request for state information from a first processor of the device, obtaining the state information from one or more registers of the first processor based on a request structure indicated by a first instruction of a software program executing on the device, and generating a response structure based, at least in part, on the obtained state information. The method further includes using a cryptographic algorithm and a shared key established between the device and the remote server to generate a signature based, at least in part, on the response structure, and communicating the response structure and the signature to the remote server. In more specific embodiments, both the response structure and the request structure each include a same nonce value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2018
    Publication date: February 7, 2019
    Applicant: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Prashant Dewan, Siddhartha Chhabra, Uttam K. Sengupta, Howard C. Herbert
  • Patent number: 10193858
    Abstract: A custody transfer of a device can include sending a start of transfer request to an attestation device over a short range wireless communication channel, a nonce is received from the attestation device in association with the start of transfer request, and the nonce is signed at the particular gateway device. The signed nonce is sent to the attestation device, a transfer confirmation message is received from the attestation device, and a transfer message is sent to a management system to report a transfer in custody of the attestation device involving the particular gateway device and another gateway device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2019
    Assignee: McAfee, LLC
    Inventors: Jesse Randall Walker, Howard C. Herbert, Kirk D. Brannock, Geoffrey H. Cooper, David A. deVries, David M. Amols, Sven Schrecker, Stephen H. Price
  • Patent number: 10102380
    Abstract: A technique to enable secure application and data integrity within a computer system. In one embodiment, one or more secure enclaves are established in which an application and data may be stored and executed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2018
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Francis X. McKeen, Carlos V. Rozas, Uday R. Savagaonkar, Simon P. Johnson, Vincent Scarlata, Michael A. Goldsmith, Ernie Brickell, Jiang Tao Li, Howard C. Herbert, Prashant Dewan, Stephen J. Tolopka, Gilbert Neiger, David Durham, Gary Graunke, Bernard Lint, Don A. Van Dyke, Joseph Cihula, Stalinselvaraj Jeyasingh, Stephen R. Van Doren, Dion Rodgers, John Garney, Asher Altman
  • Patent number: 10104122
    Abstract: Sensor data may be filtered in a secure environment. The filtering may limit distribution of the sensor data. Filtering may modify the sensor data, for example, to prevent identification of a person depicted in a captured image or to prevent acquiring a user's precise location. Filtering may also add or require other data use controls to access the data. Attestation that a filter policy is being applied and working properly or not may be provided as well.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2018
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Scott H. Robinson, Jason Martin, Howard C. Herbert, Michael LeMay, Karanvir Ken S. Grewal, Keith L. Shippy, Geoffrey Strongin
  • Patent number: 10044696
    Abstract: An apparatus is provided that includes at least one processor device, an energy storage module to power the apparatus, memory to store a secret such that powering down and restarting the apparatus causes the secret to be lost, logic executable by the at least one processor device to generate attestation data using the secret that data abstracts the secret, and a communications interface to send the attestation data to another device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2018
    Assignee: McAfee, LLC
    Inventors: Jesse Randall Walker, Howard C. Herbert, Kirk D. Brannock, Stephen H. Price, Geoffrey H. Cooper, David A. deVries, David M. Amols, Sven Schrecker
  • Patent number: 10009328
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a system including one or more hardware processors is: to receive a user request to access a website; sign a nonce with at least some of the plurality of group private keys, the at least some of the plurality of group private keys corresponding to personalization attributes of the website; and send the signed nonce to a web server to enable personalized interaction with the web server. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2018
    Assignee: McAfee, LLC
    Inventors: Ned M. Smith, Sven Schrecker, Howard C. Herbert
  • Publication number: 20180096412
    Abstract: In some embodiments, the disclosed subject matter involves a digital brokerage service to match data, services and compute capacity of subscribers and publishers in a trusted execution environment (TEE). In an embodiment, data is generated by an Internet of Things IoT device. Publishers register available resources with the digital brokerage service, including TEE capabilities. Subscribers request data or services with a quality of service or service level agreement requirements and define required TEE capabilities. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2016
    Publication date: April 5, 2018
    Inventors: Mark E. Scott-Nash, Howard C. Herbert
  • Patent number: 9740882
    Abstract: Technologies for sensor privacy on a computing device include receiving, by a sensor controller of the computing device, sensor data from a sensor of the computing device; determining a sensor mode for the sensor; and sending privacy data in place of the sensor data in response to a determination that the sensor mode for the sensor is set to a private mode. The technologies may also include receiving, by a security engine of the computing device, a sensor mode change command from a user of the computing device via a trusted input/output path of the computing device; and sending a mode command to the sensor controller to set the sensor mode of the sensor based on the sensor mode change command, wherein the sending the mode command comprises sending the mode command over a private bus established between the security engine and the sensor controller. Other embodiments are described herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2017
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Mark E. Scott-Nash, Scott H. Robinson, Howard C. Herbert, Geoffrey S. Strongin, Stephen J. Allen, Tobias M. Kohlenberg, Uttam K. Sengupta
  • Publication number: 20170180314
    Abstract: A custody transfer of a device can include sending a start of transfer request to an attestation device over a short range wireless communication channel, a nonce is received from the attestation device in association with the start of transfer request, and the nonce is signed at the particular gateway device. The signed nonce is sent to the attestation device, a transfer confirmation message is received from the attestation device, and a transfer message is sent to a management system to report a transfer in custody of the attestation device involving the particular gateway device and another gateway device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2015
    Publication date: June 22, 2017
    Inventors: Jesse Randall Walker, Howard C. Herbert, Kirk D. Brannock, Geoffrey H. Cooper, David A. deVries, David M. Amols, Sven Schrecker, Stephen H. Price
  • Publication number: 20170177417
    Abstract: In an example, there is disclosed a computing apparatus, having a computing resource; a bespoke sensor for measuring at least one parameter of usage of the computing resource; and one or more logic elements providing a trusted compute meter (TCM) agent to: receive an external workload; provision a workload enclave; execute the external workload within the TCM enclave; and measure resource usage of the external workload via the bespoke sensor. There is also disclosed a computer-readable medium having stored thereon executable instructions for providing a TCM agent, and a method of providing a TCM agent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2015
    Publication date: June 22, 2017
    Applicant: McAfee, Inc.
    Inventors: Howard C. Herbert, Jennifer Eligius Mankin, Simon Hunt, Venkata Ramanan Sambandam, Mark E. Scott-Nash, Katalin Klara Bartfai-Walcott, Rameshkumar Illikkal
  • Publication number: 20170180341
    Abstract: An apparatus is provided that includes at least one processor device, an energy storage module to power the apparatus, memory to store a secret such that powering down and restarting the apparatus causes the secret to be lost, logic executable by the at least one processor device to generate attestation data using the secret that data abstracts the secret, and a communications interface to send the attestation data to another device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2015
    Publication date: June 22, 2017
    Applicant: McAfee, Inc.
    Inventors: Jesse Randall Walker, Howard C. Herbert, Kirk D. Brannock, Stephen H. Price, Geoffrey H. Cooper, David A. deVries, David M. Amols, Sven Schrecker
  • Publication number: 20170163616
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a system including one or more hardware processors is: to receive a user request to access a website; sign a nonce with at least some of the plurality of group private keys, the at least some of the plurality of group private keys corresponding to personalization attributes of the website; and send the signed nonce to a web server to enable personalized interaction with the web server. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2015
    Publication date: June 8, 2017
    Inventors: Ned M. Smith, Sven Schrecker, Howard C. Herbert
  • Publication number: 20160364787
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes: receiving, in a device, a first message to request transfer of ownership of the device from a current owner to a new owner, the device having a storage to store a first title including a device identifier for the device and an owner identifier for the current owner, the storage to further store a first root authorization key associated with the current owner; sending a second message from the device to the new owner, the second message including a hash value of the first title; and receiving a third message, in the device, the third message including a second title for the device, the second title generated by the new owner and including a new owner identifier, the second title comprising a concatenation of the first title, to enable ownership of the device to be transferred to the new owner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2015
    Publication date: December 15, 2016
    Inventors: Jesse Walker, Ned M. Smith, Howard C. Herbert, Manoj R. Sastry