Patents by Inventor Mouna Seri

Mouna Seri 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).

  • Analysis of distributed policy rule-sets for compliance with global policy
    Patent number: 8209738
    Abstract: A method for analysis of distributed device rule-sets for compliance with global policies includes enabling an administrator to specify a network topology with intercommunicating elements and parameters required to secure the intercommunication with access control elements of the network topology; establishing connections to the access controls elements to capture a snapshot configuration of device rule-sets of the access control elements; enabling the administrator to specify a set of global access constraints with reference to the access control elements; enabling the administrator to select between exhaustive analysis and statistical analysis; conducting the selected analysis to determine violations by the device rule-sets that fail to comply with the set of global access constraints, wherein statistical analysis quantitatively characterizes a level of compliance without conducting analysis of all potential network paths; and providing results of the selected analysis to the administrator through a graphic
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2012
    Assignee: The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois
    Inventors: David M. Nicol, William H. Sanders, Sankalp Singh, Mouna Seri
  • ANALYSIS OF DISTRIBUTED POLICY RULE-SETS FOR COMPLIANCE WITH GLOBAL POLICY
    Publication number: 20080301765
    Abstract: A method for analysis of distributed device rule-sets for compliance with global policies includes enabling an administrator to specify a network topology with intercommunicating elements and parameters required to secure the intercommunication with access control elements of the network topology; establishing connections to the access controls elements to capture a snapshot configuration of device rule-sets of the access control elements; enabling the administrator to specify a set of global access constraints with reference to the access control elements; enabling the administrator to select between exhaustive analysis and statistical analysis; conducting the selected analysis to determine violations by the device rule-sets that fail to comply with the set of global access constraints, wherein statistical analysis quantitatively characterizes a level of compliance without conducting analysis of all potential network paths; and providing results of the selected analysis to the administrator through a graphic
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2008
    Publication date: December 4, 2008
    Applicant: The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois
    Inventors: David M. Nicol, William H. Sanders, Sankalp Singh, Mouna Seri