Patents by Inventor Jon R. Ramsey

Jon R. Ramsey 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: 8931095
    Abstract: Communications can be processed with multiple countermeasures to identify attacks. Each countermeasure can compute a probability of a communication containing an attack and an accompanying confidence score indicating confidence in the probability. Combining the probabilities can produce a composite probability and associated confidence of the communication containing an attack. The composite probability and confidence scores can be produced from a weighted combination of the individual countermeasure probabilities and confidence scores. Weighting factors can be generated or obtained from a database that stores profiles of confirmed attacks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: Dell Products, LP
    Inventors: Jon R. Ramsey, Jyotish S. Varma, Ashley Thomas, Kevin J. Schmidt, Joseph Neal Stewart, Rudy Alexander Ristich, Joan Pepin
  • Publication number: 20140373151
    Abstract: An information handling system includes a processor and a management controller separate from the processor. The management controller is operable to store an anti-virus program and a malicious marker detection program in a memory of the management controller, and to execute the malicious marker detection program. The malicious marker detection program operates to detect a state of a device of the information handling system, determine that the information handling system is under attack from a malicious program in response to detecting the state of the device, and send an alert to a management system coupled to the information handling system, the alert indicating that the information handling system is under attack from the malicious program.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2013
    Publication date: December 18, 2014
    Inventors: Theodore S. Webb, Jacqueline H. Wilson, Jon R. Ramsey, Mukund P. Khatri
  • Patent number: 8701176
    Abstract: The present disclosure is generally directed to a computer security management system that integrates a firewall with an intrusion detection system (IDS). In other words, the firewall and IDS of the present disclosure can be designed to communicate process or status information and packets with one another. The present disclosure can facilitate centralized control of the firewall and the IDS and can increase the speed at which packets are passed between a secured computer network and an external network. Increased packet processing speed can be achieved in several ways. For example, the firewall and IDS can process packets in series, in parallel, and sometimes singularly when one of the components is not permitted to process a packet. Alternatively, singular processing can also be performed when one component is permitted to pass a packet to the secured computer network without checking with the other component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2014
    Assignee: Dell Products, LP
    Inventors: Jon R. Ramsey, Kevin Ketts
  • Publication number: 20140041028
    Abstract: Communications can be processed with multiple countermeasures to identify attacks. Each countermeasure can compute a probability of a communication containing an attack and an accompanying confidence score indicating confidence in the probability. Combining the probabilities can produce a composite probability and associated confidence of the communication containing an attack. The composite probability and confidence scores can be produced from a weighted combination of the individual countermeasure probabilities and confidence scores. Weighting factors can be generated or obtained from a database that stores profiles of confirmed attacks.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2013
    Publication date: February 6, 2014
    Applicant: Dell Products, LP
    Inventors: Jon R. Ramsey, Jyotish S. Varma, Ashley Thomas, Kevin J. Schmidt, Joseph Neal Stewart, Rudy Alexander Ritsch, Joan Pepin
  • Patent number: 8621618
    Abstract: Communications can be processed with multiple countermeasures to identify attacks. Each countermeasure can compute a probability of a communication containing an attack and an accompanying confidence score indicating confidence in the probability. Combining the probabilities can produce a composite probability and associated confidence of the communication containing an attack. The composite probability and confidence scores can be produced from a weighted combination of the individual countermeasure probabilities and confidence scores. Weighting factors can be generated or obtained from a database that stores profiles of confirmed attacks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2013
    Assignee: Dell Products, LP
    Inventors: Jon R. Ramsey, Jyotish S. Varma, Ashley Thomas, Kevin J. Schmidt, Joseph Neal Stewart, Rudy Alexander Ristich, Joan Pepin
  • Publication number: 20130291103
    Abstract: Preventing attacks on a computer at run-time. Content that is configured to access at least one function of a computer is received by the computer. Protections corresponding to the function are added to the content, wherein the protections override the function. The content and the protections are then transmitted to the computer. The function may expose a vulnerability of the computer, and arguments passed to the function may exploit that vulnerability. The protections are executed when the content is executed, and determine whether the arguments the content passed into the function represent a threat. In response to determining that the arguments represent a threat, execution of the content is terminated without executing the function.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2013
    Publication date: October 31, 2013
    Inventors: Andy Davenport, Hunter King, Jon R. Ramsey
  • Patent number: 8522350
    Abstract: Preventing attacks on a computer at run-time. Content that is configured to access at least one function of a computer is received by the computer. Protections corresponding to the function are added to the content, wherein the protections override the function. The content and the protections are then transmitted to the computer. The function may expose a vulnerability of the computer, and arguments passed to the function may exploit that vulnerability. The protections are executed when the content is executed, and determine whether the arguments the content passed into the function represent a threat. In response to determining that the arguments represent a threat, execution of the content is terminated without executing the function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2013
    Assignee: Dell Products, LP
    Inventors: Andy Davenport, Hunter King, Jon R. Ramsey
  • Publication number: 20100125913
    Abstract: Preventing attacks on a computer at run-time. Content that is configured to access at least one function of a computer is received by the computer. Protections corresponding to the function are added to the content, wherein the protections override the function. The content and the protections are then transmitted to the computer. The function may expose a vulnerability of the computer, and arguments passed to the function may exploit that vulnerability. The protections are executed when the content is executed, and determine whether the arguments the content passed into the function represent a threat. In response to determining that the arguments represent a threat, execution of the content is terminated without executing the function.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2009
    Publication date: May 20, 2010
    Applicant: SecureWorks, Inc.
    Inventors: Andy Davenport, Hunter King, Jon R. Ramsey