Patents by Inventor Krishna Oliveira de Hollanda Padilha

Krishna Oliveira de Hollanda Padilha 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).

  • Enforcement of password uniqueness
    Patent number: 11244040
    Abstract: Embodiments provide a computer implemented method of enforcing password uniqueness for different user accounts of a particular user. The method includes: receiving a first new password from a first user account of the particular user, wherein the first user account is associated with a first system/object referenced by a first Password Relationship Object (PRO); evaluating a uniqueness policy to determine whether password uniqueness is required by one or more other PROs, wherein each system/object referenced by the one or more other PROs has a different user account of the particular user; if the password uniqueness is required by the one or more other PROs, evaluating a matching policy to determine whether the first new password matches any password of each different user account associated with one or more systems/objects referenced by the one or more other PROs; if there is a match, enforcing an enforcement policy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Gregory M. J. H. Tkaczyk, Juan Hernan Rodriguez Mahecha, Krishna Oliveira De Hollanda Padilha
  • ENFORCEMENT OF PASSWORD UNIQUENESS
    Publication number: 20210034735
    Abstract: Embodiments provide a computer implemented method of enforcing password uniqueness for different user accounts of a particular user. The method includes: receiving a first new password from a first user account of the particular user, wherein the first user account is associated with a first system/object referenced by a first Password Relationship Object (PRO); evaluating a uniqueness policy to determine whether password uniqueness is required by one or more other PROs, wherein each system/object referenced by the one or more other PROs has a different user account of the particular user; if the password uniqueness is required by the one or more other PROs, evaluating a matching policy to determine whether the first new password matches any password of each different user account associated with one or more systems/objects referenced by the one or more other PROs; if there is a match, enforcing an enforcement policy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2019
    Publication date: February 4, 2021
    Inventors: Gregory M. J. H. Tkaczyk, Juan Hernan Rodriguez Mahecha, Krishna Oliveira de Hollanda Padilha