Patents by Inventor Robert Scott Mitchell

Robert Scott Mitchell 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: 11616774
    Abstract: Described are methods and systems to identify unauthorized attempts to access an account in a computer system, the account having an authorized user. The methods and systems include determining that a count of failed attempts to access the account exceeds a maximum. Based on the count exceeding the maximum, one or more peer contacts associated with the authorized user are retrieved from stored user data. A failure attribution request is transmitted to the one or more peer contacts and a response is received from at least one of the one or more peer contacts. If the response denies that the authorized user caused the failed attempts, then a security action is taken with respect to the account. The method may include first confirming that the number of failure attributions requests sent has not exceeded an abuse threshold to prevent denial-of-service attacks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventor: Robert Scott Mitchell
  • Patent number: 11323445
    Abstract: A method of accessing a network comprises providing, via a first container establishing a first tunnel between a computing device and a network server, a health-check status of the computing device to the network server, and accessing, via a second container establishing a second tunnel between the computing device and the network server, the network at a level of access based on the health-check status of the computing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventor: Robert Scott Mitchell
  • Publication number: 20210168143
    Abstract: A method of accessing a network comprises providing, via a first container establishing a first tunnel between a computing device and a network server, a health-check status of the computing device to the network server, and accessing, via a second container establishing a second tunnel between the computing device and the network server, the network at a level of access based on the health-check status of the computing device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2019
    Publication date: June 3, 2021
    Applicant: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventor: Robert Scott MITCHELL
  • Publication number: 20200236099
    Abstract: Described are methods and systems to identify unauthorized attempts to access an account in a computer system, the account having an authorized user. The methods and systems include determining that a count of failed attempts to access the account exceeds a maximum. Based on the count exceeding the maximum, one or more peer contacts associated with the authorized user are retrieved from stored user data. A failure attribution request is transmitted to the one or more peer contacts and a response is received from at least one of the one or more peer contacts. If the response denies that the authorized user caused the failed attempts, then a security action is taken with respect to the account. The method may include first confirming that the number of failure attributions requests sent has not exceeded an abuse threshold to prevent denial-of-service attacks.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2019
    Publication date: July 23, 2020
    Applicant: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventor: Robert Scott MITCHELL
  • Patent number: 9009234
    Abstract: A system and method for replicating a distributed computer system state among a plurality of deterministic event processing engines are disclosed. A sender module receives a plurality of input events or input event streams and generates a serialized message sequence describing an order in which input events are processed. The serialized message sequence is then transmitted to a plurality of deterministic event processing engines for processing. As the event processing engines are deterministic, each event processing engine produces the same ordered sequence responsive to the received serialized message sequence. The ordered sequences from each deterministic event processing engine are transmitted to a merger module which generates an output from the plurality of ordered sequences. The merger module removes one or more redundant ordered sequences and associates the resulting output with a client device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2015
    Assignee: Software AG
    Inventors: Robert Scott Mitchell, Mark K. Horsburgh, Richard M. Bentley
  • Publication number: 20120291008
    Abstract: A system and method for constructing and deploying a business activity monitoring (BAM) dashboard associated with an event-based process are disclosed. A configuration module receives an event-based process identifier for an event-based process and data, such as inputs or outputs, for the event-based process. A generation module then generates a dashboard description that includes the identifier and an associated dashboard template having one or more dashboard components. This dashboard description is used by a dashboard server to automatically generate a BAM dashboard for monitoring the event-based process by using the association between the dashboard template and the event-based process to display data associated with the event-based process using one or more dashboard components.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2012
    Publication date: November 15, 2012
    Applicant: PROGRESS SOFTWARE CORPORATION
    Inventors: John BATES, Gareth SMITH, Richard M. BENTLEY, James ARSENAULT, Aston CHAN, Kevin A. PALFREYMAN, Robert Scott MITCHELL
  • Patent number: 8276115
    Abstract: A system and method for constructing and deploying a business activity monitoring (BAM) dashboard associated with an event-based process are disclosed. A configuration module receives an event-based process identifier for an event-based process and data, such as inputs or outputs, for the event-based process. A generation module then generates a dashboard description that includes the identifier and an associated dashboard template having one or more dashboard components. This dashboard description is used by a dashboard server to automatically generate a BAM dashboard for monitoring the event-based process by using the association between the dashboard template and the event-based process to display data associated with the event-based process using one or more dashboard components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2012
    Assignee: Progress Software Corporation
    Inventors: John Bates, Gareth Smith, Richard M. Bentley, James Arsenault, Aston Chan, Kevin A. Palfreyman, Robert Scott Mitchell
  • Publication number: 20080209078
    Abstract: A system and method for constructing and deploying a business activity monitoring (BAM) dashboard associated with an event-based process are disclosed. A configuration module receives an event-based process identifier for an event-based process and data, such as inputs or outputs, for the event-based process. A generation module then generates a dashboard description that includes the identifier and an associated dashboard template having one or more dashboard components. This dashboard description is used by a dashboard server to automatically generate a BAM dashboard for monitoring the event-based process by using the association between the dashboard template and the event-based process to display data associated with the event-based process using one or more dashboard components.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2008
    Publication date: August 28, 2008
    Inventors: John Bates, Gareth Smith, Richard M. Bentley, James Arsenault, Aston Chan, Kevin A. Palfreyman, Robert Scott Mitchell
  • Publication number: 20080189352
    Abstract: A system and method for replicating a distributed computer system state among a plurality of deterministic event processing engines are disclosed. A sender module receives a plurality of input events or input event streams and generates a serialized message sequence describing an order in which input events are processed. The serialized message sequence is then transmitted to a plurality of deterministic event processing engines for processing. As the event processing engines are deterministic, each event processing engine produces the same ordered sequence responsive to the received serialized message sequence. The ordered sequences from each deterministic event processing engine are transmitted to a merger module which generates an output from the plurality of ordered sequences. The merger module removes one or more redundant ordered sequences and associates the resulting output with a client device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2008
    Publication date: August 7, 2008
    Inventors: Robert Scott Mitchell, Mark K. Horsburgh, Richard M. Bentley