Patents by Inventor Robert F. Hogan

Robert F. Hogan 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).

  • Patent number: 9594898
    Abstract: To control privileges and access to resources on a per-process basis, an administrator creates a rule that may be applied to modify a token of a process. The rule may include an application-criterion set and changes to be made to the groups and/or privileges of the token. The rule may be set as a policy within a group policy object (GPO), where a GPO is associated with one or more groups of computers or users. When a GPO containing a rule is applied to a computer, a driver installed on the computer may access the rule(s) anytime a logged-on user executes a process. If the executed process satisfies the criterion set of a rule, the changes contained within the rule are made to the process token, and the user has expanded and/or contracted access and/or privileges for only that process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2017
    Assignee: BeyondTrust Software, Inc.
    Inventors: Peter David Beauregard, Andrey Kolishchak, Shannon E. Jennings, Robert F. Hogan
  • Patent number: 9558343
    Abstract: To control privileges and access to resources on a per-process basis, an administrator creates a rule that may be applied to modify a token of a process. The rule may include an application-criterion set and changes to be made to the groups and/or privileges of the token. The rule may be set as a policy within a group policy object (GPO), where a GPO is associated with one or more groups of computers or users. When a GPO containing a rule is applied to a computer, a driver installed on the computer may access the rule(s) anytime a logged-on user executes a process. If the executed process satisfies the criterion set of a rule, the changes contained within the rule are made to the process token, and the user has expanded and/or contracted access and/or privileges for only that process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2017
    Assignee: BeyondTrust Software, Inc.
    Inventors: Peter David Beauregard, Andrey Kolishchak, Shannon E. Jennings, Robert F. Hogan
  • Patent number: 9367484
    Abstract: Disclosed is a software program, USB monitoring software agent. USB monitoring software agent is a software program that monitors all USB ports of a computer and provides real-time detection of all USB devices connected to a USB port. As a USB device is detected, the device is identified, categorized, cataloged and logged in a secure persistent store, prompted for a challenge policy of use if so configured, prevent the USB device from being used if so configured, transmit information about the detected USB device to a local or remote repository by a selected industry standard telecommunication method. A method of creating a digital photograph and/or a video recording to record and identify a user of the computer contemporaneous with the insertion/removal/ejection of a USB device into or out of the computer is disclosed also.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2016
    Inventors: Linda R. Stilwell, Robert F. Hogan, A. Christian Jackson
  • Publication number: 20150074828
    Abstract: To control privileges and access to resources on a per-process basis, an administrator creates a rule that may be applied to modify a token of a process. The rule may include an application-criterion set and changes to be made to the groups and/or privileges of the token. The rule may be set as a policy within a group policy object (GPO), where a GPO is associated with one or more groups of computers or users. When a GPO containing a rule is applied to a computer, a driver installed on the computer may access the rule(s) anytime a logged-on user executes a process. If the executed process satisfies the criterion set of a rule, the changes contained within the rule are made to the process token, and the user has expanded and/or contracted access and/or privileges for only that process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2014
    Publication date: March 12, 2015
    Applicant: BeyondTrust Software, Inc.
    Inventors: Peter David Beauregard, Andrey Kolishchak, Shannon E. Jennings, Robert F. Hogan
  • Publication number: 20150047025
    Abstract: To control privileges and access to resources on a per-process basis, an administrator creates a rule that may be applied to modify a token of a process. The rule may include an application-criterion set and changes to be made to the groups and/or privileges of the token. The rule may be set as a policy within a group policy object (GPO), where a GPO is associated with one or more groups of computers or users. When a GPO containing a rule is applied to a computer, a driver installed on the computer may access the rule(s) anytime a logged-on user executes a process. If the executed process satisfies the criterion set of a rule, the changes contained within the rule are made to the process token, and the user has expanded and/or contracted access and/or privileges for only that process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2014
    Publication date: February 12, 2015
    Applicant: BEYONDTRUST SOFTWARE, INC.
    Inventors: Peter David Beauregard, Andrey Kolishchak, Shannon E. Jennings, Robert F. Hogan
  • Publication number: 20140380010
    Abstract: Disclosed is a software program, USB monitoring software agent. USB monitoring software agent is a software program that monitors all USB ports of a computer and provides real-time detection of all USB devices connected to a USB port. As a USB device is detected, the device is identified, categorized, catalogued and logged in a secure persistent store, prompted for a challenge policy of use if so configured, prevent the USB device from being used if so configured, transmit information about the detected USB device to a local or remote repository by a selected industry standard telecommunication method. A method of creating a digital photograph and/or a video recording to record and identify a user of the computer contemporaneous with the insertion/removal/ejection of a USB device into or out of the computer is disclosed also.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2014
    Publication date: December 25, 2014
    Inventors: Robert F. Hogan, A. Christian Jackson
  • Patent number: 8850549
    Abstract: To control privileges and access to resources on a per-process basis, an administrator creates a rule that may be applied to modify a token of a process. The rule may include an application-criterion set and changes to be made to the groups and/or privileges of the token. The rule may be set as a policy within a group policy object (GPO), where a GPO is associated with one or more groups of computers or users. When a GPO containing a rule is applied to a computer, a driver installed on the computer may access the rule(s) anytime a logged-on user executes a process. If the executed process satisfies the criterion set of a rule, the changes contained within the rule are made to the process token, and the user has expanded and/or contracted access and/or privileges for only that process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Assignee: BeyondTrust Software, Inc.
    Inventors: Peter David Beauregard, Andrey Kolishchak, Shannon E. Jennings, Robert F. Hogan
  • Patent number: 8788723
    Abstract: Disclosed is a software program, USB monitoring software agent. USB monitoring software agent is a software program that monitors all USB ports of a computer and provides real-time detection of all USB devices connected to a USB port. As a USB device is detected, the device is identified, categorized, catalogued and logged in a secure persistent store, prompted for a challenge policy of use if so configured, prevent the USB device from being used if so configured, transmit information about the detected USB device to a local or remote repository by a selected industry standard telecommunication method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2014
    Inventors: Robert F. Hogan, A. Christian Jackson, Linda Stilwell
  • Publication number: 20110030045
    Abstract: To control privileges and access to resources on a per-process basis, an administrator creates a rule that may be applied to modify a token of a process. The rule may include an application-criterion set and changes to be made to the groups and/or privileges of the token. The rule may be set as a policy within a group policy object (GPO), where a GPO is associated with one or more groups of computers or users. When a GPO containing a rule is applied to a computer, a driver installed on the computer may access the rule(s) anytime a logged-on user executes a process. If the executed process satisfies the criterion set of a rule, the changes contained within the rule are made to the process token, and the user has expanded and/or contracted access and/or privileges for only that process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 3, 2010
    Publication date: February 3, 2011
    Inventors: Peter David Beauregard, Andrey Kolishchak, Shannon E. Jennings, Robert F. Hogan