Patents by Inventor Michael R. Rowden

Michael R. Rowden 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).

  • Selective processing of application permissions
    Patent number: 10681051
    Abstract: An application permissions processing system and method for processing application permission requests is provided. The method includes the steps of detecting that an application has been downloaded to a computing system, receiving one or more permission requests from the application for resources located on the computing system, determining that at least one of the one or more permission requests is a required permission of the application, prompting the user to decide the one or more permission requests, receiving a denial of the required permission from the user, in response to the prompting, and responding to the application by providing spoofed resources to the application to satisfy the required permission of the application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Michael R. Rowden, Andrei V. C. Ta, Vasu Vallabhaneni
  • SELECTIVE PROCESSING OF APPLICATION PERMISSIONS
    Publication number: 20190081951
    Abstract: An application permissions processing system and method for processing application permission requests is provided. The method includes the steps of detecting that an application has been downloaded to a computing system, receiving one or more permission requests from the application for resources located on the computing system, determining that at least one of the one or more permission requests is a required permission of the application, prompting the user to decide the one or more permission requests, receiving a denial of the required permission from the user, in response to the prompting, and responding to the application by providing spoofed resources to the application to satisfy the required permission of the application.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2018
    Publication date: March 14, 2019
    Inventors: Michael R. Rowden, Andrei V. C. Ta, Vasu Vallabhaneni
  • Selective processing of application permissions
    Patent number: 10171468
    Abstract: An application permissions processing system and method for processing application permission requests is provided. The method includes the steps of detecting that an application has been downloaded to a computing system, receiving one or more permission requests from the application for resources located on the computing system, determining that at least one of the one or more permission requests is a required permission of the application, prompting the user to decide the one or more permission requests, receiving a denial of the required permission from the user, in response to the prompting, and responding to the application by providing spoofed resources to the application to satisfy the required permission of the application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Michael R. Rowden, Andrei V. C. Ta, Vasu Vallabhaneni
  • SELECTIVE PROCESSING OF APPLICATION PERMISSIONS
    Publication number: 20180063138
    Abstract: An application permissions processing system and method for processing application permission requests is provided. The method includes the steps of detecting that an application has been downloaded to a computing system, receiving one or more permission requests from the application for resources located on the computing system, determining that at least one of the one or more permission requests is a required permission of the application, prompting the user to decide the one or more permission requests, receiving a denial of the required permission from the user, in response to the prompting, and responding to the application by providing spoofed resources to the application to satisfy the required permission of the application.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2016
    Publication date: March 1, 2018
    Inventors: Michael R. Rowden, Andrei V. C. Ta, Vasu Vallabhaneni