Patents by Inventor Ryan M. Durand

Ryan M. Durand 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: 11063978
    Abstract: An example system to obscure personally identifiable information of a user of an electronic device is disclosed. The example system includes a first processor to select a set of instructions from a plurality of sets of instructions. The first processor also is to transmit the set of instructions to a second processor, the second processor disposed in an electronic device, the electronic device remote from the first processor, the set of instructions to cause the second processor to obtain non-personally identifiable data from the personally identifiable information gathered by the electronic device. The example system also includes a remote data reader to read the non-personally identifiable data from the electronic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: McAfee, LLC
    Inventors: Ryan M. Durand, Carl D. Woodward, Kunal Mehta, Lynda M. Grindstaff
  • Publication number: 20190319982
    Abstract: An example system to obscure personally identifiable information of a user of an electronic device is disclosed. The example system includes a first processor to select a set of instructions from a plurality of sets of instructions. The first processor also is to transmit the set of instructions to a second processor, the second processor disposed in an electronic device, the electronic device remote from the first processor, the set of instructions to cause the second processor to obtain non-personally identifiable data from the personally identifiable information gathered by the electronic device. The example system also includes a remote data reader to read the non-personally identifiable data from the electronic device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2019
    Publication date: October 17, 2019
    Inventors: Ryan M. Durand, Carl D. Woodward, Kunal Mehta, Lynda M. Grindstaff
  • Patent number: 10375109
    Abstract: Protecting personally identifiable information data collected and/or stored in physical objects with embedded electronic devices by performing at least the following: obtaining a plurality of personally identifiable information algorithms for a plurality of electronic user devices, determining a relevant personally identifiable information algorithm from the plurality of personally identifiable information algorithms, executing the relevant personally identifiable information algorithm over the relevant personally identifiable information from one of the electronic user devices to construct a personally identifiable information data result, and transmitting the personally identifiable information data result without transmitting the relevant personally identifiable information to a remote computing system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2019
    Assignee: McAfee, LLC
    Inventors: Ryan M. Durand, Carl D. Woodward, Kunal Mehta, Lynda M. Grindstaff
  • Publication number: 20170187748
    Abstract: Protecting personally identifiable information data collected and/or stored in physical objects with embedded electronic devices by performing at least the following: obtaining a plurality of personally identifiable information algorithms for a plurality of electronic user devices, determining a relevant personally identifiable information algorithm from the plurality of personally identifiable information algorithms, executing the relevant personally identifiable information algorithm over the relevant personally identifiable information from one of the electronic user devices to construct a personally identifiable information data result, and transmitting the personally identifiable information data result without transmitting the relevant personally identifiable information to a remote computing system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2015
    Publication date: June 29, 2017
    Inventors: Ryan M. Durand, Carl D. Woodward, Kunal Mehta, Lynda M. Grindstaff