Patents by Inventor Stephen Ridlon

Stephen Ridlon 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).

  • Global policy apparatus and related methods
    Patent number: 9565191
    Abstract: A method of implementing requirements applicable to systems of an enterprise includes modeling the requirements as contents of policies applicable to target domains of the enterprise. The policy contents are integrated into a policy model. The policy model is adapted to obtain representations of domain-specific requirements corresponding to target systems in the target domains. The representations are integrated with the corresponding target systems to implement the domain-specific requirements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignee: THE BOEING COMPANY
    Inventors: Paul L. Allen, Michael W. Anderson, David J. Finton, Ming-Yuh Huang, Charles T. Kitzmiller, Phyllis Melvin, Stephen A. Ridlon
  • Defining consistent access control policies
    Patent number: 7921452
    Abstract: A method of defining policies for controlling access to resources of a system. Authorization requirements for the system are modeled to obtain a model expressing each of a plurality of access control policies as a constraint. From the model is generated a single policy set in an authorization markup language that captures the requirements. This method can be used to define role-based access control policies in a format that can be adapted for input to a variety of access control mechanisms. This generative approach to access control design allows maintenance to be performed at the requirements level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2011
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Stephen A. Ridlon, Richard V. Robinson, James P. Tjelle, Keith Williamson
  • GLOBAL POLICY APPARATUS AND RELATED METHODS
    Publication number: 20090119746
    Abstract: A method of implementing requirements applicable to systems of an enterprise includes modeling the requirements as contents of policies applicable to target domains of the enterprise. The policy contents are integrated into a policy model. The policy model is adapted to obtain representations of domain-specific requirements corresponding to target systems in the target domains. The representations are integrated with the corresponding target systems to implement the domain-specific requirements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2008
    Publication date: May 7, 2009
    Inventors: Paul L. Allen, Michael W. Anderson, David J. Finton, Ming-Yuh Huang, Charles T. Kitzmiller, Phyllis Melvin, Stephen A. Ridlon
  • Defining consistent access control policies
    Publication number: 20070056018
    Abstract: A method of defining policies for controlling access to resources of a system. Authorization requirements for the system are modeled to obtain a model expressing each of a plurality of access control policies as a constraint. From the model is generated a single policy set in an authorization markup language that captures the requirements. This method can be used to define role-based access control policies in a format that can be adapted for input to a variety of access control mechanisms. This generative approach to access control design allows maintenance to be performed at the requirements level.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2005
    Publication date: March 8, 2007
    Inventors: Stephen Ridlon, Richard Robinson, James Tjelle, Keith Williamson