Patents by Inventor Robert Thomas Taylor

Robert Thomas Taylor 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).

  • Dynamic whitelist management
    Patent number: 10771436
    Abstract: In one example embodiment, a proxy for a network obtains a traffic flow. The proxy determines whether a security policy in a whitelist for the traffic flow is active. If it is determined that the security policy for the traffic flow is active, the proxy selectively decrypts the traffic flow to produce one or more traffic flow attributes and, based on the one or more traffic flow attributes, determines whether the traffic flow is potentially malicious.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: Robert Thomas Taylor, M. David Hanes, Nikhil Sainath Kale, Ana Perić
  • DYNAMIC WHITELIST MANAGEMENT
    Publication number: 20190312846
    Abstract: In one example embodiment, a proxy for a network obtains a traffic flow. The proxy determines whether a security policy in a whitelist for the traffic flow is active. If it is determined that the security policy for the traffic flow is active, the proxy selectively decrypts the traffic flow to produce one or more traffic flow attributes and, based on the one or more traffic flow attributes, determines whether the traffic flow is potentially malicious.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2018
    Publication date: October 10, 2019
    Inventors: Robert Thomas Taylor, M. David Hanes, Nikhil Sainath Kale, Ana Peric