Patents by Inventor Nicholas R. Pace

Nicholas R. Pace 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).

  • Tracking and tracing information theft from information systems
    Patent number: 9294480
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a processing device receives, from an accessing system, an access request for stored information. In response, the device generates unique classification and tracking metadata based on the access request, and embeds the classification and tracking metadata as steganographic code into the source information before returning the information according to the request. The device then replies to the access request with the return information containing the embedded steganographic code.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2016
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventor: Nicholas R. Pace
  • TRACKING AND TRACING INFORMATION THEFT FROM INFORMATION SYSTEMS
    Publication number: 20150200940
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a processing device receives, from an accessing system, an access request for stored information. In response, the device generates unique classification and tracking metadata based on the access request, and embeds the classification and tracking metadata as steganographic code into the source information before returning the information according to the request. The device then replies to the access request with the return information containing the embedded steganographic code.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2014
    Publication date: July 16, 2015
    Applicant: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventor: Nicholas R. Pace