Patents by Inventor Jeffrey Gummeson

Jeffrey Gummeson 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).

  • Detection and healing of vulnerabilities in computer code
    Patent number: 9754112
    Abstract: An example process includes: identifying, by one or more processing devices, candidate code in executable code based on a static analysis of the executable code, where the candidate code includes code that is vulnerable to attack or the candidate code being on a path to code that is vulnerable to attack, where information related to the attack is based, at least in part, on the candidate code; customizing, by one or more processing devices, a healing template based on the information to produce a customized healing template; and inserting, by one or more processing devices, the customized healing template into a version of the executable code at a location that is based on a location of the candidate code in the executable code, where the customized healing template includes code that is executable to inhibit the attack.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Assignee: BlueRISC, Inc.
    Inventors: Csaba Andras Moritz, Kristopher Carver, Jeffrey Gummeson