Patents by Inventor Leon A. Burch

Leon A. Burch 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: 11606352
    Abstract: A Time-based One-Time Password (TOTP) validator is interposed between a principal and a network service. The validator interacts with a mobile application (app) on the mobile device associated with the principal to dynamically supply a validator secret. The secret and, perhaps, other information are processed by the app to generate a TOTP when the principal attempts to access a protected resource of the network service. The validator independently generates the TOTP and compares the app generated TOTP, and on a successful match, a principal's access device is redirected for access to the protected resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: NetIQ Corporation
    Inventors: Lloyd Leon Burch, Duane Fredrick Buss, Larry Hal Henderson
  • Patent number: 11361065
    Abstract: Techniques for authentication via a mobile device are provided. A mobile device is pre-registered for website authentication services. A user encounters a website displaying an embedded code as an image alongside a normal login process for that website. The image is identified by the mobile device, encrypted and signed by the mobile device and sent to a proxy. The proxy authenticates the code and associates it with the website. Credentials for the user are provided to the website to automatically authenticate the user for access to the website bypassing the normal login process associated with the website.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: Micro Focus Software Inc.
    Inventors: Jason Allen Sabin, Jeremy Ray Brown, Lloyd Leon Burch
  • Patent number: 11277261
    Abstract: In some examples, in response to detecting addition or update of a program component of a program, a system creates a blockchain entry for addition to a blockchain register, generates a hash based on the program component, and adds in the blockchain entry a signed hash produced by encrypting the generated hash. The system publishes the blockchain entry for the blockchain, the signed hash in a blockchain entry useable to detect tampering with the program component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: NETIQ CORPORATION
    Inventors: Michael F. Angelo, Lloyd Leon Burch, Baha Masoud
  • Patent number: 11170316
    Abstract: The system and method for determining fuzzy cause and effect relationships in an intelligent workload management system described herein may combine potential causes and effects captured from various different sources associated with an information technology infrastructure with substantially instantaneous feedback mechanisms and other knowledge sources. As such, fuzzy correlation logic may then be applied to the combined information to determine potential cause and effect relationships and thereby diagnose problems and otherwise manage interactions that occur in the infrastructure. For example, information describing potential causes and potential effects associated with an operational state of the infrastructure may be captured and combined, and any patterns among the information that describes the multiple potential causes and effects may then be identified.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: Micro Focus Software Inc.
    Inventors: Jeremy Ray Brown, Jason Allen Sabin, Nathaniel Brent Kranendonk, Kal A. Larsen, Lloyd Leon Burch, Michael Fairbanks, Michael John Jorgensen, Thomas Larry Biggs
  • Publication number: 20210288957
    Abstract: A Time-based One-Time Password (TOTP) validator is interposed between a principal and a network service. The validator interacts with a mobile application (app) on the mobile device associated with the principal to dynamically supply a validator secret. The secret and, perhaps, other information are processed by the app to generate a TOTP when the principal attempts to access a protected resource of the network service. The validator independently generates the TOTP and compares the app generated TOTP, and on a successful match, a principal's access device is redirected for access to the protected resource.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2021
    Publication date: September 16, 2021
    Inventors: Lloyd Leon Burch, Duane Fredrick Buss, Larry Hal Henderson
  • Patent number: 11038873
    Abstract: A Time-based One-Time Password (TOTP) validator is interposed between a principal and a network service. The validator interacts with a mobile application (app) on the mobile device associated with the principal to dynamically supply a validator secret. The secret and, perhaps, other information are processed by the app to generate a TOTP when the principal attempts to access a protected resource of the network service. The validator independently generates the TOTP and compares the app generated TOTP, and on a successful match, a principal's access device is redirected for access to the protected resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignee: NetIQ Corporation
    Inventors: Lloyd Leon Burch, Duane Fredrick Buss, Larry Hal Henderson
  • Patent number: 10817614
    Abstract: A pool of files are analyzed for relationships between the files. At least some of the files in the pool are encrypted files. The relationships are represented by distances between the files plotted on a graph in two or more dimensions. A point on the graph representing a particular file. The graph includes an interactive interface, such that points or clusters of points can be selected for re-analyzing and re-plotting on a refreshed graph for just those selected points or clusters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: NetIQ Corporation
    Inventors: Lloyd Leon Burch, Baha Masoud
  • Patent number: 10798068
    Abstract: A secure server detects a login from a user originating from a first device. A second user-registered device is sent a message. The second device: translates the message into light-based communication that is captured by a camera of the first device, translates the message back into the original message, and sends the translated message to the secure server. The secure server authenticates the message and sends an indication to the first device that the second device is permitted to access the first device. In an embodiment, information passed between the first and second devices continue using light-based communications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: NetIQ Corporation
    Inventors: Lloyd Leon Burch, Baha Masoud
  • Publication number: 20200259832
    Abstract: Techniques for authentication via a mobile device are provided. A mobile device is pre-registered for website authentication services. A user encounters a website displaying an embedded code as an image alongside a normal login process for that website. The image is identified by the mobile device, encrypted and signed by the mobile device and sent to a proxy. The proxy authenticates the code and associates it with the website. Credentials for the user are provided to the website to automatically authenticate the user for access to the website bypassing the normal login process associated with the website.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2020
    Publication date: August 13, 2020
    Inventors: Jason Allen Sabin, Jeremy Ray Brown, Lloyd Leon Burch
  • Patent number: 10735419
    Abstract: Techniques for authentication via a mobile device are provided. A mobile device is pre-registered for website authentication services. A user encounters a website displaying an embedded code as an image alongside a normal login process for that website. The image is identified by the mobile device, encrypted and signed by the mobile device and sent to a proxy. The proxy authenticates the code and associates it with the website. Credentials for the user are provided to the website to automatically authenticate the user for access to the website bypassing the normal login process associated with the website.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignee: Micro Focus Software Inc.
    Inventors: Jason Allen Sabin, Jeremy Ray Brown, Lloyd Leon Burch
  • Publication number: 20200099513
    Abstract: In some examples, in response to detecting addition or update of a program component of a program, a system creates a blockchain entry for addition to a blockchain register, generates a hash based on the program component, and adds in the blockchain entry a signed hash produced by encrypting the generated hash. The system publishes the blockchain entry for the blockchain, the signed hash in a blockchain entry useable to detect tampering with the program component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2018
    Publication date: March 26, 2020
    Inventors: Michael F. Angelo, Lloyd Leon Burch, Baha Masoud
  • Patent number: 10547616
    Abstract: Systems and methods are described that support information security and sub-system operational conformance with protocols. In some embodiments, agent access to resources can be controlled via generation of credentials and/or tokens and/or conditioned external authentication. In some embodiments, workflows used to assess protocol conformance can be conditionally triggered at sub-systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Assignee: ORACLE INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Stephen R. Carter, Lee Edward Lowry, Paul Alexandre Turner, Robert Mark Ward, Lloyd Leon Burch, Dale Robert Olds, Duane Fredrick Buss
  • Patent number: 10530763
    Abstract: A late-binding token (LBT) is securely generated and provided to a device application. When the LBT is presented and validated, a resource associated with the presentation is bound to the LBT and authenticated for access to a service and provided valid credentials for accessing that service.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: NetIQ Corporation
    Inventors: Lloyd Leon Burch, Atul Mahajan, Stuart Jensen, Baha Masoud
  • Patent number: 10503914
    Abstract: Techniques for security auditing of cloud resources are provided. A virtual machine (VM) is captured and isolated when a session indicates that a session with the VM has terminated. Security checks are executed against the VM in the isolated environment. Results from the security checks are then reported.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: Micro Focus Software Inc.
    Inventors: Jason Allen Sabin, Michael John Jorgensen, Lloyd Leon Burch, Jeremy Ray Brown, Nathaniel Brent Kranendonk, Kal A. Larsen, Michael Fairbanks, Matthew Holt
  • Patent number: 10454902
    Abstract: Techniques for secure data extraction in a virtual or cloud environment are presented. Desired data from a Virtual Machine (VM) or an entire VM is extracted and encrypted with a key. This key is sealed to a machine or a group of machines. The encrypted data is then migrated and successfully used on startup for instances of the VM by having the ability to access the sealed key (and unsealing it) to decrypt the encrypted data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Assignee: NetIQ Corporation
    Inventors: Michael F. Angelo, Lloyd Leon Burch
  • Patent number: 10455025
    Abstract: An authenticated session with a remote system is established and identified through an authentication token for the session. During that session, a resource is accessed requiring additional authentication beyond what the authentication token was originally authorized for. Out-of-band processing from the existing session performs the additional authentication and permission from the authentication token are upgraded to include permissions for accessing the resource during the session. The resource is accessed during the session with the authentication token having the upgraded permissions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Assignee: Micro Focus Software Inc.
    Inventors: Lloyd Leon Burch, Gulshan Govind Vaswani, Sureshkumar Thangavel, Rik Peters
  • Patent number: 10432619
    Abstract: An app of a mobile device registers the mobile device for a remote credential server (RCS) and receives a device token. When a credential for a remote asset is supplied on the mobile device it is routed to the RCS and stored external to the mobile device but referenced on the mobile device via an asset token. When the credential is needed, the device token and the asset token permit the RCS to authenticate and return the credential to or on behalf of the mobile device so that the mobile device can authenticate to and access the remote asset.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2019
    Assignee: NetIQ Corporation
    Inventors: Lloyd Leon Burch, Michael F. Angelo, Baha Masoud
  • Patent number: 10380331
    Abstract: Multi-touch groupings of characters are detected for device authentication and access. In an embodiment, one or more non-character based factors are used in combination with an inputted authentication code (character based) for device authentication and access.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: NetIQ Corporation
    Inventors: Lloyd Leon Burch, Baha Masoud
  • Patent number: 10360054
    Abstract: File mapping and converting for dynamic disk personalization for multiple platforms are provided. A volatile file operation is detected in a first platform. The file supported by the first platform. A determination is made that the file is sharable with a second platform. The volatile operation is performed on the file in the first platform and the modified file is converted to a second file supported by the second platform. The modified file and second file are stored in a personalized disk for a user. The personalized disk is used to modify base images for VMs of the user when the user accesses the first platform or second platform. The modified file is available within the first platform and the second file is available within the second platform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2019
    Assignee: Micro Focus Software Inc.
    Inventors: Nathaniel Brent Kranendonk, Jason Allen Sabin, Lloyd Leon Burch, Jeremy Ray Brown, Kal A. Larsen, Michael John Jorgensen
  • Patent number: 10305995
    Abstract: Techniques for device independent session migration are presented. A secure mechanism is presented for a target device to receive a current authenticated communication session from an original device with minimal user interaction while automated security is enforced during session migration. In an embodiment, the target device is a mobile device and the original device is a desktop; the target device captures a data glyph that is visually presented on a display of the original device and the data glyph is then seamlessly communicated to a server manager for authentication and session migration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2019
    Assignee: NetIQ Corporation
    Inventors: Lloyd Leon Burch, Baha Masoud, Michael F. Angelo