Patents by Inventor Richard A. Ford

Richard A. Ford 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).

  • Publication number: 20190364055
    Abstract: A method, system and computer-usable medium for generating a user behavior profile, comprising: monitoring user interactions between a user and an information handling system; converting the user interactions and the information about the user into electronic information representing the user interactions; generating a unique user behavior profile based upon the electronic information representing the user interactions and the information about the user; storing information relating to the unique user behavior profile within a user behavior profile repository; and, storing information referencing the unique user behavior profile in a user behavior blockchain.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2019
    Publication date: November 28, 2019
    Inventor: Richard A. Ford
  • Publication number: 20190364056
    Abstract: A method, system and computer-usable medium for generating a user behavior profile, comprising: monitoring user interactions between a user and an information handling system; converting the user interactions and the information about the user into electronic information representing the user interactions; generating a unique user behavior profile based upon the electronic information representing the user interactions and the information about the user; storing information relating to the unique user behavior profile within a user behavior profile repository; and, storing information referencing the unique user behavior profile in a user behavior blockchain.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2019
    Publication date: November 28, 2019
    Inventor: Richard A. Ford
  • Publication number: 20190356699
    Abstract: A system, method, and computer-readable medium are disclosed for generating an adaptive trust profile via an adaptive trust profile operation. In various embodiments the adaptive trust profile operation includes: monitoring a plurality of electronically-observable actions of an entity, the plurality of electronically-observable actions of the entity corresponding to a respective plurality of events enacted by the entity; converting the plurality of electronically-observable actions of the entity to electronic information representing the plurality of actions of the entity; and generating the adaptive trust profile based upon the plurality of actions of the entity, the adaptive trust profile being generated by an adaptive trust profile system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2019
    Publication date: November 21, 2019
    Inventor: Richard A. Ford
  • Publication number: 20190354701
    Abstract: A system, method, and computer-readable medium are disclosed for generating an adaptive trust profile via an adaptive trust profile operation. In various embodiments the adaptive trust profile operation includes: monitoring a plurality of electronically-observable actions of an entity, the plurality of electronically-observable actions of the entity corresponding to a respective plurality of events enacted by the entity, the monitoring comprising monitoring at least one of the plurality of electronically-observable actions via a protected endpoint; converting the plurality of electronically-observable actions of the entity to electronic information representing the plurality of actions of the entity; and generating an adaptive trust profile based upon the action of the entity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2019
    Publication date: November 21, 2019
    Inventor: Richard A. Ford
  • Publication number: 20190354702
    Abstract: A system, method, and computer-readable medium are disclosed for generating an adaptive trust profile via an adaptive trust profile operation. In various embodiments the adaptive trust profile operation includes: monitoring a plurality of electronically-observable actions of an entity, the plurality of electronically-observable actions of the entity corresponding to a respective plurality of events enacted by the entity, the monitoring comprising monitoring at least one of the plurality of electronically-observable actions via a protected endpoint; converting the plurality of electronically-observable actions of the entity to electronic information representing the plurality of actions of the entity; and generating an adaptive trust profile based upon the action of the entity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2019
    Publication date: November 21, 2019
    Inventor: Richard A. Ford
  • Publication number: 20190354703
    Abstract: A system, method, and computer-readable medium are disclosed for generating an adaptive trust profile via an adaptive trust profile operation. In various embodiments the adaptive trust profile operation includes: monitoring a plurality of electronically-observable actions of an entity, the plurality of electronically-observable actions of the entity corresponding to a respective plurality of events enacted by the entity, the monitoring comprising monitoring at least one of the plurality of electronically-observable actions via a protected endpoint; converting the plurality of electronically-observable actions of the entity to electronic information representing the plurality of actions of the entity; and generating an adaptive trust profile based upon the action of the entity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2019
    Publication date: November 21, 2019
    Inventor: Richard A. Ford
  • Publication number: 20190356688
    Abstract: A system, method, and computer-readable medium are disclosed for performing an adaptive trust profile generation operation. The adaptive trust profile generation operation includes: monitoring an electronically-observable action of an entity, the electronically-observable action of the entity corresponding to an event enacted by the entity; converting the electronically-observable action of the entity to electronic information representing the action of the entity; and generating the adaptive trust profile based upon the action of the entity, the adaptive trust profile comprising a plurality of adaptive trust profile components.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2019
    Publication date: November 21, 2019
    Inventor: Richard A. Ford
  • Publication number: 20190308811
    Abstract: A multi-use garbage truck has an ability to not only to front load containers of garbage into a hopper in a refuse collection body, but also an ability to swap out the forks, if not arm connection assemblies, or even entire frame arms, to be replaced with one of a plurality of attachments which connect to at least one, if not both frame arms with attachments for various uses such as snow plow, leaf blower, street sweeper, bucket, grapple, etc. Furthermore, an ability to independently operate the left frame arm relative to the right frame arm can now be provided so that the left frame arm can utilize and perform one function and the right frame arm provide another or at least be independently operable from one another.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2019
    Publication date: October 10, 2019
    Inventors: Shane Peek, Richard Ford, Chad Gentry, John Smith, Bobby McKinney, John Bedwell, Brian Parker, Ken Beaver
  • Publication number: 20190289021
    Abstract: A system, method, and computer-readable medium are disclosed for monitoring actions of an entity. In various embodiments the monitoring includes: monitoring a plurality of electronically-observable actions of the entity, the plurality of electronically-observable actions of the entity corresponding to a plurality of events enacted by the entity; associating the plurality of events enacted by the entity with a story; and, using the story to derive an inference regarding the entity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2019
    Publication date: September 19, 2019
    Inventor: Richard A. Ford
  • Publication number: 20190228181
    Abstract: A method, system and computer-usable medium are disclosed for performing a privacy operation, comprising: monitoring user behavior via an Input/output collector, the Input/output collector capturing user/device interactions between a user and a device; determining whether the user/device interactions include sensitive personal information; obfuscating the sensitive personal information, the obfuscating preventing viewing of the sensitive personal information; storing obfuscated sensitive personal information within an obfuscated sensitive personal information repository; and, allowing access to the obfuscated sensitive personal information stored within the obfuscated sensitive personal information repository only when an administrator is authorized to access the obfuscated sensitive personal information so as to provide conditional sensitive personal information access.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2019
    Publication date: July 25, 2019
    Inventors: Richard A. Ford, Christopher B. Shirey, Jonathan B. Knepher, Lidror Troyansky
  • Publication number: 20190213327
    Abstract: A method, system and computer-usable medium for adaptively assessing risk associated with an endpoint, comprising: determining a risk level corresponding to an entity associated with an endpoint; selecting a frequency and a duration of an endpoint monitoring interval; collecting user behavior to collect user behavior associated with the entity for the duration of the endpoint monitoring interval via the endpoint; processing the user behavior to generate a current risk score for the entity; comparing the current risk score of the user to historical risk scores to determine whether a risk score of a user has changed; and changing the risk score of the user to the current risk score when the risk score of the user has changed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2019
    Publication date: July 11, 2019
    Inventors: Richard A. Ford, Ann Irvine, Adam Reeve, Russell Snyder, Benjamin Shih
  • Patent number: 10318729
    Abstract: A method, system and computer-usable medium are disclosed for performing a privacy operation, comprising: monitoring user behavior via a data stream collector, the data stream collector capturing data streams resulting from user/device interactions between a user and a corresponding endpoint device; determining whether the data streams resulting from user/device interactions include sensitive personal information; obfuscating the sensitive personal information, the obfuscating preventing unauthorized viewing of the sensitive personal information; and, presenting the sensitive personal information as a sensitive personal information token indicating the data streams include sensitive personal information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2019
    Assignee: Forcepoint, LLC
    Inventors: Richard A. Ford, Christopher B. Shirey, Jonathan B. Knepher, Lidror Troyansky
  • Patent number: 10262153
    Abstract: A method, system and computer-usable medium are disclosed for performing a privacy operation, comprising: monitoring user behavior via an Input/output collector, the Input/output collector capturing user/device interactions between a user and a device; determining whether the user/device interactions include sensitive personal information; obfuscating the sensitive personal information, the obfuscating preventing viewing of the sensitive personal information; storing obfuscated sensitive personal information within an obfuscated sensitive personal information repository; and, allowing access to the obfuscated sensitive personal information stored within the obfuscated sensitive personal information repository only when an administrator is authorized to access the obfuscated sensitive personal information so as to provide conditional sensitive personal information access.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2019
    Assignee: Forcepoint, LLC
    Inventors: Richard A. Ford, Christopher B. Shirey, Jonathan B. Knepher, Lidror Troyansky
  • Patent number: 10239689
    Abstract: A multi-use garbage truck has an ability to not only to front load containers of garbage into a hopper in a refuse collection body, but also an ability to swap out the forks, if not arm connection assemblies, or even entire frame arms, to be replaced with one of a plurality of attachments which connect to at least one, if not both frame arms with attachments for various uses such as snow plow, leaf blower, street sweeper, bucket, grapple, etc. Furthermore, an ability to independently operate the left frame arm relative to the right frame arm can now be provided so that the left frame arm can utilize and perform one function and the right frame arm provide another or at least be independently operable from one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignee: The Heil Co.
    Inventors: Shane Peek, Richard Ford, Chad Gentry, John Smith, Bobby McKinney, John Bedwell, Brian Parker, Ken Beaver
  • Publication number: 20190052647
    Abstract: A method, system and computer-usable medium for generating a user behavior profile, comprising: monitoring user interactions between a user and an information handling system; converting the user interactions and the information about the user into electronic information representing the user interactions; generating a unique user behavior profile based upon the electronic information representing the user interactions and the information about the user; storing information relating to the unique user behavior profile within a user behavior profile repository; and, storing information referencing the unique user behavior profile in a user behavior blockchain.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2018
    Publication date: February 14, 2019
    Inventor: Richard A. Ford
  • Publication number: 20190036971
    Abstract: A method, system and computer-usable medium for adaptively remediating multivariate risk, comprising: detecting a violation of a multivariate security policy, the multivariate security policy comprising a plurality of variables; identifying a variable from the plurality of variables associated with a cause of the violation; associating an entity with the variable associated with the cause of the violation; and, adaptively remediating a risk associated with the entity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2018
    Publication date: January 31, 2019
    Inventors: Richard A. Ford, Ann Irvine, Adam Reeve
  • Publication number: 20190034657
    Abstract: A method, system and computer-usable medium are disclosed for performing a privacy operation, comprising: monitoring user behavior via an Input/output collector, the Input/output collector capturing user/device interactions between a user and a device; determining whether the user/device interactions include sensitive personal information; obfuscating the sensitive personal information, the obfuscating preventing viewing of the sensitive personal information; storing obfuscated sensitive personal information within an obfuscated sensitive personal information repository; and, allowing access to the obfuscated sensitive personal information stored within the obfuscated sensitive personal information repository only when an administrator is authorized to access the obfuscated sensitive personal information so as to provide conditional sensitive personal information access.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2017
    Publication date: January 31, 2019
    Inventors: Richard A. Ford, Christopher B. Shirey, Jonathan B. Knepher, Lidror Troyansky
  • Publication number: 20190034625
    Abstract: A method, system and computer-usable medium for adaptively assessing risk associated with an endpoint, comprising: determining a risk level corresponding to an entity associated with an endpoint; selecting a frequency and a duration of an endpoint monitoring interval; collecting user behavior to collect user behavior associated with the entity for the duration of the endpoint monitoring interval via the endpoint; processing the user behavior to generate a current risk score for the entity; comparing the current risk score of the user to historical risk scores to determine whether a risk score of a user has changed; and changing the risk score of the user to the current risk score when the risk score of the user has changed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2018
    Publication date: January 31, 2019
    Inventors: Richard A. Ford, Ann Irvine, Adam Reeve, Russell Snyder, Benjamin Shih
  • Publication number: 20190034660
    Abstract: A method, system and computer-usable medium are disclosed for performing a privacy operation, comprising: monitoring user behavior via a data stream collector, the data stream collector capturing data streams resulting from user/device interactions between a user and a corresponding endpoint device; determining whether the data streams resulting from user/device interactions include sensitive personal information; obfuscating the sensitive personal information, the obfuscating preventing unauthorized viewing of the sensitive personal information; and, presenting the sensitive personal information as a sensitive personal information token indicating the data streams include sensitive personal information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2017
    Publication date: January 31, 2019
    Inventors: Richard A. Ford, Christopher B. Shirey, Jonathan B. Knepher, Lidror Troyansky
  • Patent number: D865257
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: SYLVAN R. SHEMITZ DESIGNS, LLC
    Inventors: Paul Richard Ford, Carl Robert Leuck