Patents by Inventor J. Gary Woodward

J. Gary Woodward 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).

  • Holistic risk-based identity establishment for eligibility determinations in context of an application
    Patent number: 8375427
    Abstract: A set of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) services can be utilized by applications executing in protected application environments external to a SOA environment. The SOA services can include an identity service, a eligibility service, and a security risk assessment service, each of which generates a percentage of risk when run. SOA services can be dependent on specific applications and application cases, each being a specific context of an application, so that results vary by application case. The SOA environment can store data, which is constantly being updated about people, which is used by the SOA services. In one embodiment, sensitive or confidential data can be maintained in the protected application environment and can be isolated from the SOA environment. Rules, criteria, factors, and the like used by the SOA services can be customized at an arbitrary level of complexity for specific applications and application cases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2013
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Narayanan Alavandar, Ravi S. Arunachalam, Dennis A. Carlton, Tim M. Corcoran, Hung T. Kwan, William F. Willis, J. Gary Woodward
  • HOLISTIC RISK-BASED IDENTITY ESTABLISHMENT FOR ELIGIBILITY DETERMINATIONS IN CONTEXT OF AN APPLICATION
    Publication number: 20110265162
    Abstract: A set of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) services can be utilized by applications executing in protected application environments external to a SOA environment. The SOA services can include an identity service, a eligibility service, and a security risk assessment service, each of which generates a percentage of risk when run. SOA services can be dependent on specific applications and application cases, each being a specific context of an application, so that results vary by application case. The SOA environment can store data, which is constantly being updated about people, which is used by the SOA services. In one embodiment, sensitive or confidential data can be maintained in the protected application environment and can be isolated from the SOA environment. Rules, criteria, factors, and the like used by the SOA services can be customized at an arbitrary level of complexity for specific applications and application cases.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2010
    Publication date: October 27, 2011
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Narayanan Alavandar, Ravi S. Arunachalam, Dennis A. Carlton, Tim M. Corcoran, Hung Tack Kwan, William F. Willis, J. Gary Woodward