Patents by Inventor Kevin LaFlamme

Kevin LaFlamme 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).

  • Publication number: 20220368530
    Abstract: A trusted execution environment on a computing device within an enterprise, whether owned by the enterprise or the employee/user, allows invocation of trusted enterprise applications without hindering external or non-enterprise apps from running on the same computing device. Each of the trusted apps can interact with other trusted apps on the same enterprise computing device in a trusted manner such that other apps or untrusted network connections are prevented for access to the trusted apps. The computing device, however, also executes non enterprise applications which operate independently of the enterprise apps in the same address space using the same unmodified operating system as the enterprise apps on the computing device. The trusted execution environment therefore restricts interprocess communication to be only within the set of enterprise apps and also permits unimpeded operation of other apps under the same OTS (off the shelf) operating system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2022
    Publication date: November 17, 2022
    Inventors: James Seibel, Kevin LaFlamme, Fred Koschara, Reinhard Schumak, Jeremy Debate
  • Patent number: 11424931
    Abstract: A trusted execution environment on a computing device within an enterprise, whether owned by the enterprise or the employee/user, allows invocation of trusted enterprise applications without hindering external or non-enterprise apps from running on the same computing device. Each of the trusted apps can interact with other trusted apps on the same enterprise computing device in a trusted manner such that other apps or untrusted network connections are prevented for access to the trusted apps. The computing device, however, also executes non enterprise applications which operate independently of the enterprise apps in the same address space using the same unmodified operating system as the enterprise apps on the computing device. The trusted execution environment therefore restricts interprocess communication to be only within the set of enterprise apps and also permits unimpeded operation of other apps under the same OTS (off the shelf) operating system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: James Seibel, Kevin LaFlamme, Fred Koschara, Reinhard Schumak, Jeremy Debate
  • Patent number: 10599409
    Abstract: A trusted execution environment on an enterprise-enabled computing device allows invocation of a suite of secure applications (apps) on a computing device in an enterprise without hindering external or non-enterprise apps from running on in the same memory space on the same enterprise computing device. An application wrapper provides an operation queue for storing application lifecycle operations while the trusted execution environment is enabled, and the environment is secured. The application defers lifecycle operation to ensure that all security measures are in place before it is allowed to execute. The operation queue receives entries corresponding to the application lifecycle events, and suspends process execution of the lifecycle operations until the secure environment is ready for the operation queued events to be executed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2020
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: James Seibel, Kevin LaFlamme
  • Publication number: 20170220331
    Abstract: A trusted execution environment on an enterprise-enabled computing device allows invocation of a suite of secure applications (apps) on a computing device in an enterprise without hindering external or non-enterprise apps from running on in the same memory space on the same enterprise computing device. An application wrapper provides an operation queue for storing application lifecycle operations while the trusted execution environment is enabled, and the environment is secured. The application defers lifecycle operation to ensure that all security measures are in place before it is allowed to execute.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 2, 2016
    Publication date: August 3, 2017
    Inventors: James Seibel, Kevin LaFlamme
  • Publication number: 20170214530
    Abstract: A trusted execution environment on a computing device within an enterprise, whether owned by the enterprise or the employee/user, allows invocation of trusted enterprise applications without hindering external or non-enterprise apps from running on the same computing device. Each of the trusted apps can interact with other trusted apps on the same enterprise computing device in a trusted manner such that other apps or untrusted network connections are prevented for access to the trusted apps. The computing device, however, also executes non enterprise applications which operate independently of the enterprise apps in the same address space using the same unmodified operating system as the enterprise apps on the computing device. The trusted execution environment therefore restricts interprocess communication to be only within the set of enterprise apps and also permits unimpeded operation of other apps under the same OTS (off the shelf) operating system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2016
    Publication date: July 27, 2017
    Inventors: James Seibel, Kevin LaFlamme, Fred Koschara, Reinhard Schumak, Jeremy Debate