Patents by Inventor John D. Dungan

John D. Dungan 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: 7784101
    Abstract: A technique for identifying dependencies of an application upon a given security context includes monitoring security checks generated by the application. The security checks requiring elevated rights are identified and the state of execution of the application corresponding to the identified security checks may be logged. The security checks requiring elevated rights may be identified by monitoring access checks, monitoring privilege checks, checking user/group identifiers against a list of known identifiers associated with elevated rights, or the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2010
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Chad E Verbowski, John D. Dungan, Shuo Chen, Yi-Min Wang