Patents by Inventor James C. GROUND

James C. GROUND 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: 10491621
    Abstract: Website security tracking is provided which includes, for instance, collecting, by a processor, event-specific information related to a suspicious event at a website. The collecting includes executing at least one security tracking module integrated into website code of the website to store the event-specific information. The website is one website of multiple websites of a network. The tracking method also includes providing by the website an indication of the suspicious event and the collected event-specific information to an analytics system external to the website. The analytics system is to receive indications of any suspicious events from the multiple websites and determine, based at least in in part on collected event-specific information related to the suspicious events, a confidence level of whether the suspicious event is part of a common security attack on the network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2019
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: James C. Ground, David F. Hans, Ronald E. Van Buskirk
  • Publication number: 20180054456
    Abstract: Website security tracking is provided which includes, for instance, collecting, by a processor, event-specific information related to a suspicious event at a website. The collecting includes executing at least one security tracking module integrated into website code of the website to store the event-specific information. The website is one website of multiple websites of a network. The tracking method also includes providing by the website an indication of the suspicious event and the collected event-specific information to an analytics system external to the website. The analytics system is to receive indications of any suspicious events from the multiple websites and determine, based at least in in part on collected event-specific information related to the suspicious events, a confidence level of whether the suspicious event is part of a common security attack on the network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2016
    Publication date: February 22, 2018
    Inventors: James C. GROUND, David F. HANS, Ronald E. VAN BUSKIRK