Patents by Inventor James Leonard Mortensen

James Leonard Mortensen 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).

  • Promoting a secure operating environment through oversight and provisioning of BIOS activity
    Patent number: 9846584
    Abstract: Techniques for selectively permitting a device to boot an operating system. Before any operating system is loaded on the device, a BIOS component analyzes a set of files residing on the device to create state data that describes a current state of the set of files. This enables the state data to identify whether any files have been unexpectedly modified or are outdated. The BIOS component attempts to send the state data to a server over a network. The BIOS component then determines whether to permit the device to boot the operating system based on whether the network was detected and on the contents of any response, sent by the server, responsive to the state data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2017
    Assignee: Phoenix Technologies Ltd.
    Inventors: Eugene Khoruzhenko, James Leonard Mortensen