Patents by Inventor Roberta Mason

Roberta Mason 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).

  • IT risk management framework and methods
    Publication number: 20070192236
    Abstract: A method for treating information technology (IT) risk of an organization including identifying a plurality of IT risks, where each of the plurality of IT risks is based on a known problem and is associated with an IT asset classification and an IT consequence classification, calculating a plurality of IT risk exposure indices, where each of the plurality of IT risk exposure indices is associated with at least one of the plurality of IT risks, adjusting each of the plurality of IT risk exposure indices based on a business impact factor to obtain a business impact index, prioritizing the plurality of IT risks by adjusting the business impact index based on a risk treatment factor to obtain a prioritized risk treatment index, and selecting at least one of the plurality of IT risks for treatment based upon the prioritized risk treatment index.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 2, 2006
    Publication date: August 16, 2007
    Applicant: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
    Inventors: Jefre Futch, Andrew Gonczi, Roberta Mason, Ingrid Stuckenberg