Patents by Inventor Matthew F. Caldwell

Matthew F. Caldwell 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).

  • Determining threat level associated with network activity
    Patent number: 7418733
    Abstract: Network devices such as intrusion detection systems, routers, firewalls, servers, and other network devices are monitored to aggregate all event data generated by monitored devices to provide a threat ranking of all network activity. A threat level for a given host is determined by a threat weighting assigned to that host and a threat weighting assigned to that host's netblock. In addition, a vulnerability for a given event is determined by the event's destination threat associated with a vulnerability value indexed by the event's destination and the event's type.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2008
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Iven Connary, Darin J. Buck, Matthew F. Caldwell, Robert T. Hughes
  • Determining threat level associated with network activity
    Publication number: 20040044912
    Abstract: Network devices such as intrusion detection systems, routers, firewalls, servers, and other network devices are monitored to aggregate all event data generated by monitored devices to provide a threat ranking of all network activity. A threat level for a given host is determined by a threat weighting assigned to that host and a threat weighting assigned to that host's netblock. In addition, a vulnerability for a given event is determined by the event's destination threat associated with a vulnerability value indexed by the event's destination and the event's type.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2003
    Publication date: March 4, 2004
    Inventors: Iven Connary, Darin J. Buck, Matthew F. Caldwell, Robert T. Hughes