Patents by Inventor Robert Riley Zink

Robert Riley Zink 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: 20240070293
    Abstract: Systems, computer program products, and methods are described herein for dynamically generating linked security tests. The present invention may be configured to perform security tests on an application, generate, based on the results of the security tests, security test sequences that include at least one security test that the application failed, perform the security test sequences on the application, and, iteratively and until the application passes each security test sequence in an iteration, generate additional security test sequences. The present invention may be further configured to provide results of the security tests and security test sequences to one or more machine learning models to generate supplementary security test sequences and determine probabilities of the application failing the supplementary security test sequences.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Applicant: BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jack Lawson Bishop, III, Timothy Andrew Wright, Robert Riley Zink
  • Patent number: 11874931
    Abstract: Systems, computer program products, and methods are described herein for dynamically generating linked security tests. The present invention may be configured to perform security tests on an application, generate, based on the results of the security tests, security test sequences that include at least one security test that the application failed, perform the security test sequences on the application, and, iteratively and until the application passes each security test sequence in an iteration, generate additional security test sequences. The present invention may be further configured to provide results of the security tests and security test sequences to one or more machine learning models to generate supplementary security test sequences and determine probabilities of the application failing the supplementary security test sequences.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jack Lawson Bishop, III, Timothy Andrew Wright, Robert Riley Zink
  • Publication number: 20230224275
    Abstract: A device configured to receive a data sample about a configuration for one or more network devices in a public network. The device is further configured to compare one or more threat indicators to the data sample where each threat indicator is associated with a configuration setting. The device is further configured to identify a first network device in the public network that comprises a configuration that matches a threat indicator and to generate a bad actor profile for the first network device. The device is further configured to receive data traffic for a second network device in a private network and to block data communications between the second network device in the private network and the first network device in the public network in response to determining that the first network device is associated with the bad actor profile.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2022
    Publication date: July 13, 2023
    Inventors: Robert Riley Zink, Matthew E. Kelly
  • Patent number: 11663320
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention are directed to systems, methods, and computer program products for creating an effective baseline for controlling software and programs running on a user device or virtual machine environment of an enterprise network. Historical data may be used to train one or more iterative machine learning processes for intelligently identifying relevant program characteristics and aiding or automating a determination as to a software or program's need, usage, redundancy, or security. Determinations regarding software or program classifications may be used for further review or automated control of software or program execution within a network environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Eric Joseph DePree, Michael Edward Hunter Dunten, Robert Riley Zink
  • Publication number: 20220327218
    Abstract: Systems, computer program products, and methods are described herein for dynamically performing linked security tests. The present invention may be configured to determine a fingerprint of an application, perform, in an order based on the fingerprint of the application, security test sequences on the application, parse responses of the application to the security test sequences to generate results of the security test sequences, and label, with the fingerprint, the results. The present invention may be further configured to provide, to one or more machine learning models, the labeled results to determine probabilities of applications having a same fingerprint as the fingerprint of the application failing the security test sequences, update, based on the probabilities of the applications failing the security test sequences, the order, and store, in a temporary persistent storage device and based on the updated order, the security test sequences.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2021
    Publication date: October 13, 2022
    Applicant: BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jack Lawson Bishop, III, Timothy Andrew Wright, Robert Riley Zink
  • Publication number: 20220253532
    Abstract: Systems, computer program products, and methods are described herein for dynamically generating linked security tests. The present invention may be configured to perform security tests on an application, generate, based on the results of the security tests, security test sequences that include at least one security test that the application failed, perform the security test sequences on the application, and, iteratively and until the application passes each security test sequence in an iteration, generate additional security test sequences. The present invention may be further configured to provide results of the security tests and security test sequences to one or more machine learning models to generate supplementary security test sequences and determine probabilities of the application failing the supplementary security test sequences.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2021
    Publication date: August 11, 2022
    Applicant: BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jack Lawson Bishop, III, Timothy Andrew Wright, Robert Riley Zink
  • Publication number: 20220222334
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention are directed to systems, methods, and computer program products for creating an effective baseline for controlling software and programs running on a user device or virtual machine environment of an enterprise network. Historical data may be used to train one or more iterative machine learning processes for intelligently identifying relevant program characteristics and aiding or automating a determination as to a software or program's need, usage, redundancy, or security. Determinations regarding software or program classifications may be used for further review or automated control of software or program execution within a network environment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2021
    Publication date: July 14, 2022
    Applicant: BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Eric Joseph DePree, Michael Edward Hunter Dunten, Robert Riley Zink
  • Patent number: 11144436
    Abstract: Systems, computer program products, and methods are described herein for testing an application with dynamically linked security tests. The present invention may be configured to perform, using a request engine, based on the first data, and based on test protocols stored in a first data structure, a first security test on an application. The present invention may be further configured to determine, based on determining that the application failed the first security test and based on a second data structure, whether the first security test is linked to one or more other security tests, where the second data structure includes security test sequences linking security tests and/or data to transmit from the first security test to the one or more other security tests, and provide, to the first queue, one or more other security tests to which the first security test is linked.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jack Lawson Bishop, III, Timothy Andrew Wright, Robert Riley Zink