Patents by Inventor John Howard Kling

John Howard Kling 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: 11973776
    Abstract: An enterprise-wise means for determining monitoring requirements for technology resources, such as, software, hardware, firmware, network or the like and implementing the monitoring. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is implemented to determine monitoring requirements based on characteristics of the technology resource that is to be monitored. In this regard, the characteristics of the technology resource serve to define the problem(s), such as cyber threats and/or performance issues that the technology resource currently faces or will face in the future. By determining the monitoring requirements based on the technology resource's characteristics, including the technological environment, the invention serves to describe what needs to be monitored in terms of the problems that the technology resource currently faces or will face.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATION
    Inventors: John Howard Kling, Charles Edward Dudley
  • Patent number: 11968215
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a system for monitoring a cybersecurity mesh network comprising a distributed sensor grid and a plurality of devices for detection of one or more security incidents. In response to determining that one of the one or more security incidents has occurred, and in response to receiving the request from an identified device that requires the first level of authentication, transmitting to the identified device a request for authentication credentials that meet a second level of authentication, wherein the second level of authentication is more strict than the first level of authentication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Brandon Sloane, Richard Gar Bentley, Michael Ogrinz, John Howard Kling
  • Publication number: 20230259613
    Abstract: A system is provided for electronic data obfuscation and protection using independent destructible data objects. The system may split a set of data into a data portion and a key portion, where the data portion may be stored in a database separately from the key portion. The data portion may further comprise a set of executable code for a time or iteration based destructible data object, where the data object may incrementally decrease a countdown value based on the passage of time and/or iterations. If the countdown value reaches a threshold value without being refreshed, the data object may automatically execute one or more processes to protect the set of data. In this way, the system provides a secure way to prevent unauthorized access to sensitive data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2023
    Publication date: August 17, 2023
    Applicant: BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Brandon Sloane, John Howard Kling
  • Patent number: 11720602
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a system for analyzing and correlating layered electronic data logs for monitored events on a network. The system is configured for identifying one or more entity resources associated with an entity, continuously monitoring the one or more entity resources, identifying at least a first event and a second event associated with at least one entity resource of the one or more entity resources, and performing a correlation analysis at the entity resource prior to transferring the data to a centralized data lake. In this way, the system streamlines the process for correlative analysis by performing resource heavy analysis at the edge of the network and later consolidating such data for further review.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Brandon Sloane, John Howard Kling
  • Publication number: 20230198993
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a system for monitoring a cybersecurity mesh network comprising a distributed sensor grid and a plurality of devices for detection of one or more security incidents. In response to determining that one of the one or more security incidents has occurred, and in response to receiving the request from an identified device that requires the first level of authentication, transmitting to the identified device a request for authentication credentials that meet a second level of authentication, wherein the second level of authentication is more strict than the first level of authentication.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2021
    Publication date: June 22, 2023
    Applicant: BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Brandon Sloane, Richard Gar Bentley, Michael Ogrinz, John Howard Kling
  • Patent number: 11645384
    Abstract: A system is provided for electronic data obfuscation and protection using independent destructible data objects. The system may split a set of data into a data portion and a key portion, where the data portion may be stored in a database separately from the key portion. The data portion may further comprise a set of executable code for a time or iteration based destructible data object, where the data object may incrementally decrease a countdown value based on the passage of time and/or iterations. If the countdown value reaches a threshold value without being refreshed, the data object may automatically execute one or more processes to protect the set of data. In this way, the system provides a secure way to prevent unauthorized access to sensitive data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Brandon Sloane, John Howard Kling
  • Publication number: 20220358148
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a system for analyzing and correlating layered electronic data logs for monitored events on a network. The system is configured for identifying one or more entity resources associated with an entity, continuously monitoring the one or more entity resources, identifying at least a first event and a second event associated with at least one entity resource of the one or more entity resources, and performing a correlation analysis at the entity resource prior to transferring the data to a centralized data lake. In this way, the system streamlines the process for correlative analysis by performing resource heavy analysis at the edge of the network and later consolidating such data for further review.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2021
    Publication date: November 10, 2022
    Applicant: BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Brandon Sloane, John Howard Kling
  • Publication number: 20220345472
    Abstract: An enterprise-wise means for determining monitoring requirements for technology resources, such as, software, hardware, firmware, network or the like and implementing the monitoring. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is implemented to determine monitoring requirements based on characteristics of the technology resource that is to be monitored. In this regard, the characteristics of the technology resource serve to define the problem(s), such as cyber threats and/or performance issues that the technology resource currently faces or will face in the future. By determining the monitoring requirements based on the technology resource's characteristics, including the technological environment, the invention serves to describe what needs to be monitored in terms of the problems that the technology resource currently faces or will face.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2021
    Publication date: October 27, 2022
    Applicant: BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATION
    Inventors: John Howard Kling, Charles Edward Dudley
  • Publication number: 20220284125
    Abstract: A system is provided for electronic data obfuscation and protection using independent destructible data objects. The system may split a set of data into a data portion and a key portion, where the data portion may be stored in a database separately from the key portion. The data portion may further comprise a set of executable code for a time or iteration based destructible data object, where the data object may incrementally decrease a countdown value based on the passage of time and/or iterations. If the countdown value reaches a threshold value without being refreshed, the data object may automatically execute one or more processes to protect the set of data. In this way, the system provides a secure way to prevent unauthorized access to sensitive data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2021
    Publication date: September 8, 2022
    Applicant: BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Brandon Sloane, John Howard Kling
  • Patent number: 11316664
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a system for data characterization and tracking via cohesive information units. In particular, the system may be structured to define a cohesive information unit (“CIU”) which may serve as the fundamental functional unit that serves as the basis for data electronically stored, transferred, modified, and/or copied within computing systems. Each CIU may be electronically associated with metadata which serves to identify the CIU as the CIU is stored and/or in motion. Rather than allowing applications and/or users to change the data within the CIU directly, the system may write subsequent CIU's to reflect proposed changes by the applications and/or users. In this way, the system provides a secure and reliable way to maintain authenticity of data within the entity system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATION
    Inventors: John Howard Kling, Paul E. Foshee
  • Patent number: 10986097
    Abstract: An access control system may include one or more computer processors; a memory, wherein the memory comprises an entitlement database of a resource access manager; a network communication device; and an access control module stored in the memory, executable by the one or more computer processors. The access control module may be configured to: perform the steps of: receiving a request to add one or more entitlement data records to a distributed electronic ledger; validating the one or more entitlement data records; appending the one or more entitlement data records to the distributed electronic ledger; and verifying a first entitlement data record stored in the entitlement database by comparing the first entitlement data record with a first corresponding entitlement data record stored in the distributed electronic ledger, wherein the first entitlement data record and first corresponding entitlement data record are both associated with a first user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: Bank of America Corporation
    Inventors: Brandon Sloane, Brian Diederich, John Howard Kling
  • Publication number: 20210042277
    Abstract: A system provides for restructuring electronic data elements within a mutable hierarchical database. In particular, the system may dynamically perform perspective-based restructuring the database depending on the status and/or identity of the user or computing system that is accessing the database. In this regard, the system may use an artificial intelligence and/or machine learning application to progressively modify relationships and/or attributes of data elements within the database to create multiple configurations or arrangements of database structures along certain perspectives and/or dimensions. Once the multiple configurations are generated, the system may allow the data structures to be dynamically adjusted based on the perspective or purpose for which the database is accessed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2019
    Publication date: February 11, 2021
    Applicant: Bank of America Corporation
    Inventors: Brandon Sloane, John Howard Kling
  • Patent number: 10824754
    Abstract: A vertically integrated access control system may store in a database data records corresponding to the interfaces, access control rules, and computing resources of an information system, as well as data records for entity capabilities. Data records for related interfaces, access control rules, computing resources, and entity capabilities may be linked. Using the database, the system may determine the entity capabilities that can be performed based on an existing user entitlement. If the entity capabilities include a flagged combination of entity capabilities, the system may perform an information security action to remediate the flagged combination. The system may use the database to form vertically integrated access units. The vertically integrated access units may be used to form user entitlements. The system may continuously monitor whether any proposed configurations would create a flagged combination of entity capabilities, and if so take an action to prevent such flagged combination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATION
    Inventors: John Howard Kling, Brandon Sloane, Regina Yee Cadavid, Rachel Yun Kim Bierner, Ronald James Kuhlmeier
  • Publication number: 20200322133
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a system for data characterization and tracking via cohesive information units. In particular, the system may be structured to define a cohesive information unit (“CIU”) which may serve as the fundamental functional unit that serves as the basis for data electronically stored, transferred, modified, and/or copied within computing systems. Each CIU may be electronically associated with metadata which serves to identify the CIU as the CIU is stored and/or in motion. Rather than allowing applications and/or users to change the data within the CIU directly, the system may write subsequent CIU's to reflect proposed changes by the applications and/or users. In this way, the system provides a secure and reliable way to maintain authenticity of data within the entity system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2019
    Publication date: October 8, 2020
    Applicant: Bank of America Corporation
    Inventors: John Howard Kling, Paul E. Foshee
  • Publication number: 20200167495
    Abstract: A vertically integrated access control system may store in a database data records corresponding to the interfaces, access control rules, and computing resources of an information system, as well as data records for entity capabilities. Data records for related interfaces, access control rules, computing resources, and entity capabilities may be linked. Using the database, the system may determine the entity capabilities that can be performed based on an existing user entitlement. If the entity capabilities include a flagged combination of entity capabilities, the system may perform an information security action to remediate the flagged combination. The system may use the database to form vertically integrated access units. The vertically integrated access units may be used to form user entitlements. The system may continuously monitor whether any proposed configurations would create a flagged combination of entity capabilities, and if so take an action to prevent such flagged combination.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2020
    Publication date: May 28, 2020
    Applicant: Bank of America Corporation
    Inventors: John Howard Kling, Brandon Sloane, Regina Yee Cadavid, Rachel Yun Kim Bierner, Ronald James Kuhlmeier
  • Patent number: 10664498
    Abstract: The invention provides an interconnected graph database system, method and computer program product structured for identifying and remediating conflicts in resource deployment. In some embodiments, the present invention is configured to identify a source node of a plurality of first nodes of a first graph database system. The source node is typically associated with a first information technology operational activity. In addition, the present invention is configured for determining a lateral relationship between the source node of the first graph database system and a target node of a plurality of second nodes of a second graph database system. Moreover, the present invention is configured for determining that the lateral relationship between the source node and the target node comprises a conflict, and in response, blocking initiation of the first information technology operational activity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Brandon Sloane, Rachel Yun Kim Bierner, Mark Earl Brubaker, Regina Yee Cadavid, John Brian Costello, John Howard Kling, Cora Yan Quon, Tracie Buffington Wescott
  • Patent number: 10659469
    Abstract: A vertically integrated access control system may store in a database data records corresponding to the interfaces, access control rules, and computing resources of an information system, as well as data records for entity capabilities. Data records for related interfaces, access control rules, computing resources, and entity capabilities may be linked. Using the database, the system may determine the entity capabilities that can be performed based on an existing user entitlement. If the entity capabilities include a flagged combination of entity capabilities, the system may perform an information security action to remediate the flagged combination. The system may use the database to form vertically integrated access units. The vertically integrated access units may be used to form user entitlements. The system may continuously monitor whether any proposed configurations would create a flagged combination of entity capabilities, and if so take an action to prevent such flagged combination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: Bank of America Corporation
    Inventors: John Howard Kling, Brandon Sloane, Regina Yee Cadavid, Rachel Yun Kim Bierner, Ronald James Kuhlmeier
  • Patent number: 10607022
    Abstract: A vertically integrated access control system may store in a database data records corresponding to the interfaces, access control rules, and computing resources of an information system, as well as data records for entity capabilities. Data records for related interfaces, access control rules, computing resources, and entity capabilities may be linked. Using the database, the system may determine the entity capabilities that can be performed based on an existing user entitlement. If the entity capabilities include a flagged combination of entity capabilities, the system may perform an information security action to remediate the flagged combination. The system may use the database to form vertically integrated access units. The vertically integrated access units may be used to form user entitlements. The system may continuously monitor whether any proposed configurations would create a flagged combination of entity capabilities, and if so take an action to prevent such flagged combination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: Bank of America Corporation
    Inventors: John Howard Kling, Brandon Sloane, Regina Yee Cadavid, Rachel Yun Kim Bierner, Ronald James Kuhlmeier
  • Publication number: 20190334912
    Abstract: An access control system may include one or more computer processors; a memory, wherein the memory comprises an entitlement database of a resource access manager; a network communication device; and an access control module stored in the memory, executable by the one or more computer processors. The access control module may be configured to: perform the steps of: receiving a request to add one or more entitlement data records to a distributed electronic ledger; validating the one or more entitlement data records; appending the one or more entitlement data records to the distributed electronic ledger; and verifying a first entitlement data record stored in the entitlement database by comparing the first entitlement data record with a first corresponding entitlement data record stored in the distributed electronic ledger, wherein the first entitlement data record and first corresponding entitlement data record are both associated with a first user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2018
    Publication date: October 31, 2019
    Inventors: Brandon Sloane, Brian Diederich, John Howard Kling
  • Patent number: 10459766
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to a novel system for a multidimensional (or “N-dimensional”) services framework. The framework may be used to evaluate the efficiency and effectiveness of various services along multiple dimensions which may be specified by the system or be added to the framework in the future. By evaluating the various possibilities and opportunities to modify the services as the services reach varying levels of maturity, the services may be compared with one another to establish the relational impacts among the services tracked by the system. Through the use of the N-dimensional framework, an entity may be better able to prioritize resources allocated toward the enhancement of certain evaluated services.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: Bank of America Corporation
    Inventors: Brandon Sloane, Cora Yan Quon, Tracie Buffington Wescott, Rachel Yun Kim Bierner, John Howard Kling, Mark Earl Brubaker, Brian Diederich