Patents by Inventor Lisa Chavez

Lisa Chavez 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: 11146586
    Abstract: A method and system of identifying a computing device vulnerability is provided. Social media communication is monitored. Social media threads that are related to a vulnerability, based on the monitored social media communication, are identified, filtered, and categorized into one or more predetermined categories of computing device vulnerabilities. Upon determining that a number of social media posts related to the vulnerability is above a first predetermined threshold, one or more dependable social media threads in a same one or more categories as the vulnerability are searched. One or more possible root causes of the vulnerability are determined from the searched dependable social media threads. A validity score for each of the one or more possible root causes is assigned. A possible root cause from that has a highest validity score that is above a second predetermined threshold is selected to be the root cause of the vulnerability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Muhammed Fatih Bulut, Lisa Chavez, Jinho Hwang, Anup Kalia, Virginia Mayo Policarpio, Sai Zeng
  • Publication number: 20200153851
    Abstract: A method and system of identifying a computing device vulnerability is provided. Social media communication is monitored. Social media threads that are related to a vulnerability, based on the monitored social media communication, are identified, filtered, and categorized into one or more predetermined categories of computing device vulnerabilities. Upon determining that a number of social media posts related to the vulnerability is above a first predetermined threshold, one or more dependable social media threads in a same one or more categories as the vulnerability are searched. One or more possible root causes of the vulnerability are determined from the searched dependable social media threads. A validity score for each of the one or more possible root causes is assigned. A possible root cause from that has a highest validity score that is above a second predetermined threshold is selected to be the root cause of the vulnerability.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 4, 2020
    Publication date: May 14, 2020
    Inventors: Muhammed Fatih Bulut, Lisa Chavez, Jinho Hwang, Anup Kalia, Virginia Mayo Policarpio, Sai Zeng
  • Patent number: 10601857
    Abstract: A method and system of identifying technical experts for an identified vulnerability is provided. One or more technical experts for each of one or more categories of the vulnerability are identified. Questions are sent to and answers are received from the one or more identified technical experts for each of the one or more categories of vulnerabilities, via a chatbot module. Answers to parameters that are missing for a Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) for the identified vulnerability are determined from the received answers to the parameters. The answers to the parameters are validated and a CVSS score is calculated based on the validated determined answers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2020
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Muhammed Fatih Bulut, Lisa Chavez, Jinho Hwang, Virginia Mayo, Maja Vukovic, Sai Zeng
  • Patent number: 10587643
    Abstract: A method and system of identifying a computing device vulnerability is provided. Social media communication is monitored. Social media threads that are related to a vulnerability, based on the monitored social media communication, are identified, filtered, and categorized into one or more predetermined categories of computing device vulnerabilities. Upon determining that a number of social media posts related to the vulnerability is above a first predetermined threshold, one or more dependable social media threads in a same one or more categories as the vulnerability are searched. One or more possible root causes of the vulnerability are determined from the searched dependable social media threads. A validity score for each of the one or more possible root causes is assigned. A possible root cause from that has a highest validity score that is above a second predetermined threshold is selected to be the root cause of the vulnerability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2020
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Muhammed Fatih Bulut, Lisa Chavez, Jinho Hwang, Anup Kalia, Virginia Mayo Policarpio, Sai Zeng