Patents by Inventor Martin J. Hitchman

Martin J. Hitchman 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).

  • User evaluation
    Patent number: 9443082
    Abstract: Improving the integrity of a computer system including a plurality of user accounts by, for each user account, monitoring events on the computer system that are related to the user account, assigning an importance score to the monitored user account that is indicative of the importance of the monitored user account to the integrity of the computer system, the importance score being calculated from the monitored events, and providing the importance score to a system administrator upon the administrator attempting to alter the monitored user account.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2016
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Richard S. Garraway, Martin J. Hitchman, Richard Postlethwaite, Mark R. Wilson
  • USER EVALUATION
    Publication number: 20150040219
    Abstract: Improving the integrity of a computer system including a plurality of user accounts by, for each user account, monitoring events on the computer system that are related to the user account, assigning an importance score to the monitored user account that is indicative of the importance of the monitored user account to the integrity of the computer system, the importance score being calculated from the monitored events, and providing the importance score to a system administrator upon the administrator attempting to alter the monitored user account.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2014
    Publication date: February 5, 2015
    Inventors: Richard S. Garraway, Martin J. Hitchman, Richard Postlethwaite, Mark R. Wilson