Patents by Inventor Stephen Edward Schmidt

Stephen Edward Schmidt 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: 11055425
    Abstract: A request to access a computing resource of a computing resource service provider is determined to be associated with specious data previously generated by the computing resource service provider. Information about an entity associated with the request is determined from the request. The information is provided to a breach detection system as notification of a potential attack against the computing resource service provider.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Eric Jason Brandwine, Stephen Edward Schmidt
  • Publication number: 20190332786
    Abstract: A request to access a computing resource of a computing resource service provider is determined to be associated with specious data previously generated by the computing resource service provider. Information about an entity associated with the request is determined from the request. The information is provided to a breach detection system as notification of a potential attack against the computing resource service provider.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2019
    Publication date: October 31, 2019
    Inventors: Eric Jason Brandwine, Stephen Edward Schmidt
  • Patent number: 10346623
    Abstract: A computing resource service provider may operate one or more services configured to provide customers with access to computing resources. Attackers may attempt to exfiltrate customer data from the one or more services. In order to prevent attackers from obtaining customer data the one or more services may provide specious data in response to an attack. The attack may be detected based at least in part on a set of triggers that indicate a likelihood of attack. The specious data may be configured to appear to the attacker as authentic customer data and/or that the attack is successful. Additionally, the specious data may be detectable by the one or more service, enabling the one or more service to collect additional data corresponding to the attack and/or attacker.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Eric Jason Brandwine, Stephen Edward Schmidt
  • Patent number: 10037257
    Abstract: Provided are methods and peripheral devices for examining local hardware and configuring a location-aware peripheral device accordingly. In some implementations, a peripheral device may be configured to examine, using a bus interface, another device connected to the bus. Examining may include determining characteristics of the other device. In some implementations, the peripheral device may further compare the determined characteristics against information derived from data stored in a memory of the peripheral device. The information may describe acceptable operating parameters for the computing system. In some implementations, the peripheral device may further determine, based on a result of the comparison, a status for the computing system. The status may indicate whether the computing system is operating within acceptable operating parameters. The status may direct an action by the peripheral device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2018
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Adi Habusha, Eric Jason Brandwine, Stephen Edward Schmidt
  • Patent number: 9514324
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method includes restricting access to customer data to certain geographic regions authorized by the customer. The restriction can be managed by associating policy information with the customer data that identifies the geographic regions authorized by the customer. Resources attempting to access the customer data can evaluate the policy information associated with the customer data with respect to the geographic location in which the resource is located to determine whether the resource is permitted to access the customer data. The restriction can also be managed by encrypting the customer data with a cryptographic key that corresponds to the customer and/or the authorized geographic regions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Nachiketh Rao Potlapally, Jonathan Matthew Miller, Eric Jason Brandwine, Stephen Edward Schmidt, Donald Lee Bailey, Jr.