Patents by Inventor Joseph Thomas Farro

Joseph Thomas Farro 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).

  • Mechanism for evaluating security risks
    Patent number: 8156558
    Abstract: Described is a mechanism for collectively evaluating security risks associated with loading an application. A hosting environment associated with loading the application invokes a trust manager to evaluate the security risks. The trust manager invokes a plurality of trust evaluators, where each trust evaluator is responsible for analyzing and assessing a different security risk. Upon completion of each security risk evaluation, results of those individual security risk evaluations are returned to the trust manager. The trust manager aggregates the variety of security risk evaluation results and makes a security determination based on the aggregated evaluation results. That determination may be to move forward with loading the application, to block the load of the application, or perhaps to prompt the user for a decision about whether to move forward with the load.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2012
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Aaron R. Goldfeder, John M. Hawkins, Sergey A. Khorun, Viresh N. Ramdatmisier, Joseph Thomas Farro, Gregory Darrell Fee, Jeremiah S. Epling, Andrew G. Bybee, Jingyang Xu, Tony Edward Schreiner, Jamie L. Cool
  • Mechanism for evaluating security risks
    Publication number: 20040230835
    Abstract: Described is a mechanism for collectively evaluating security risks associated with loading an application. A hosting environment associated with loading the application invokes a trust manager to evaluate the security risks. The trust manager invokes a plurality of trust evaluators, where each trust evaluator is responsible for analyzing and assessing a different security risk. Upon completion of each security risk evaluation, results of those individual security risk evaluations are returned to the trust manager. The trust manager aggregates the variety of security risk evaluation results and makes a security determination based on the aggregated evaluation results. That determination may be to move forward with loading the application, to block the load of the application, or perhaps to prompt the user for a decision about whether to move forward with the load.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2003
    Publication date: November 18, 2004
    Inventors: Aaron R. Goldfeder, John M. Hawkins, Serge A. Khorun, Viresh N. Ramdatmisier, Joseph Thomas Farro, Gregory Darrell Fee, Jeremiah S. Epling, Andrew G. Bybee, Yingyang Xu, Tony Edward Schreiner, Jamie L. Cool