Patents by Inventor Ryan Lee Luster

Ryan Lee Luster 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).

  • Account Elevation Management
    Publication number: 20140059651
    Abstract: Disclosed are various embodiments for elevating a user account by granting administrator permissions to workstations of network users. One embodiment of such a method comprises receiving authorization to provide a user temporary membership to an administrators group for a defined period of time; sending instructions to a workstation of the user to register as a member to the administrators group of the workstation; and in response to the membership having expired, sending instructions to remove the user as a member of the administrators group on the workstation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2012
    Publication date: February 27, 2014
    Applicant: SOUTHERN COMPANY SERVICES, INC.
    Inventors: Ryan Lee Luster, Mark R. Vevle, Michael W. Peters