Patents by Inventor Stephen Woodward

Stephen Woodward 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: 11936529
    Abstract: Embodiments include systems and methods for managing a network of nodes with delta processing. A network with a plurality of connected nodes can be stored, the nodes representing entities of the network. One or more deltas to the network that indicate updates to the connections among the plurality of nodes can be received. The deltas can be added to a queue. The connections between the nodes of the network can be updated using a delta from the queue. The network can be processed after updating the connections between the nodes to generate a vector for a given node. One or more paths for the given node can be identified based on the generated vector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Oracle International Corporation
    Inventors: Paul Woodward, Simon Alexander Tucker, Stephen Michael Ginns
  • Patent number: 11917087
    Abstract: An authentication system supports multi-factor authentication (MFA) when authenticating the identity of a user. A challenge-response portion of the authentication process is delegated to an MFA device—a secondary device within control of the user, but separate from the primary login device that the user is using when initiating the authentication. Communications between the MFA device and the login device are conducted using a short-range wireless communication protocol (e.g., Bluetooth™ or NFC), so that the two devices must be in close physical proximity to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Inventors: Stephen Woodward Lind, Bidan Sinha, Karthik Bhat, Naveen Kumar Keerthy, Jintai He, Kavitha Chandramohan
  • Publication number: 20230353566
    Abstract: An authentication system determines a risk level for a client device impersonating a client device enrolled in authentication services by comparing device metadata for the impersonating client device to device metadata for the enrolled client device. As part of enrolling the enrolled client device, the authentication system associates one or more authentication credentials with the enrolled client device. In order to authenticate access requests associated with a client device identified as the enrolled client device, the authentication system obtains an authentication token from the client device generated using the authentication credentials and also obtains device metadata corresponding to the client device. Based on the device metadata comparison during authentication, the authentication system detects device metadata anomalies and uses detected device metadata anomalies to determine a risk level for the client device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2023
    Publication date: November 2, 2023
    Inventor: Stephen Woodward Lind
  • Patent number: 11736480
    Abstract: An authentication system determines a risk level for a client device impersonating a client device enrolled in authentication services by comparing device metadata for the impersonating client device to device metadata for the enrolled client device. As part of enrolling the enrolled client device, the authentication system associates one or more authentication credentials with the enrolled client device. In order to authenticate access requests associated with a client device identified as the enrolled client device, the authentication system obtains an authentication token from the client device generated using the authentication credentials and also obtains device metadata corresponding to the client device. Based on the device metadata comparison during authentication, the authentication system detects device metadata anomalies and uses detected device metadata anomalies to determine a risk level for the client device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Inventor: Stephen Woodward Lind
  • Publication number: 20230246851
    Abstract: An authentication system supports multi-factor authentication (MFA) when authenticating the identity of a user. A challenge-response portion of the authentication process is delegated to an MFA device—a secondary device within control of the user, but separate from the primary login device that the user is using when initiating the authentication. Communications between the MFA device and the login device are conducted using a short-range wireless communication protocol (e.g., Bluetooth™ or NFC), so that the two devices must be in close physical proximity to each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2022
    Publication date: August 3, 2023
    Inventors: Stephen Woodward Lind, Bidan Sinha, Karthik Bhat, Naveen Kumar Keerthy, Jintai He, Kavitha Chandramohan
  • Publication number: 20220360581
    Abstract: An authentication system determines a risk level for a client device impersonating a client device enrolled in authentication services by comparing device metadata for the impersonating client device to device metadata for the enrolled client device. As part of enrolling the enrolled client device, the authentication system associates one or more authentication credentials with the enrolled client device. In order to authenticate access requests associated with a client device identified as the enrolled client device, the authentication system obtains an authentication token from the client device generated using the authentication credentials and also obtains device metadata corresponding to the client device. Based on the device metadata comparison during authentication, the authentication system detects device metadata anomalies and uses detected device metadata anomalies to determine a risk level for the client device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2022
    Publication date: November 10, 2022
    Inventor: Stephen Woodward Lind
  • Patent number: 11457012
    Abstract: An authentication system determines a risk level for a client device impersonating a client device enrolled in authentication services by comparing device metadata for the impersonating client device to device metadata for the enrolled client device. As part of enrolling the enrolled client device, the authentication system associates one or more authentication credentials with the enrolled client device. In order to authenticate access requests associated with a client device identified as the enrolled client device, the authentication system obtains an authentication token from the client device generated using the authentication credentials and also obtains device metadata corresponding to the client device. Based on the device metadata comparison during authentication, the authentication system detects device metadata anomalies and uses detected device metadata anomalies to determine a risk level for the client device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: Okta, Inc.
    Inventor: Stephen Woodward Lind
  • Publication number: 20220141220
    Abstract: An authentication system determines a risk level for a client device impersonating a client device enrolled in authentication services by comparing device metadata for the impersonating client device to device metadata for the enrolled client device. As part of enrolling the enrolled client device, the authentication system associates one or more authentication credentials with the enrolled client device. In order to authenticate access requests associated with a client device identified as the enrolled client device, the authentication system obtains an authentication token from the client device generated using the authentication credentials and also obtains device metadata corresponding to the client device. Based on the device metadata comparison during authentication, the authentication system detects device metadata anomalies and uses detected device metadata anomalies to determine a risk level for the client device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2020
    Publication date: May 5, 2022
    Inventor: Stephen Woodward Lind
  • Patent number: 10941616
    Abstract: A step stool having a platform having a length at least 1.5 times a length of a first step. The platform rotatably attached to a first front leg and a second front leg above the first step. The first step having a perimeter having a first side which extends down from a top of the first step. The first step having a first boss that extends outward from the first side through which a first fastener extends to attach the first front leg to the first step. The first step having a rib which extends outwards from the first side adjacent the first boss and in alignment with the first front leg when the first and second front legs and first and second rear legs are in an open position where they form a generally upside down V shape. The rib providing support to the first front leg when a cantilever type force is applied to the stepladder. A method for using a step stool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: Werner Co.
    Inventor: Stephen Woodward
  • Publication number: 20180363374
    Abstract: A step stool having a platform having a length at least 1.5 times a length of a first step. The platform rotatably attached to a first front leg and a second front leg above the first step. The first step having a perimeter having a first side which extends down from a top of the first step. The first step having a first boss that extends outward from the first side through which a first fastener extends to attach the first front leg to the first step. The first step having a rib which extends outwards from the first side adjacent the first boss and in alignment with the first front leg when the first and second front legs and first and second rear legs are in an open position where they form a generally upside down V shape. The rib providing support to the first front leg when a cantilever type force is applied to the stepladder. A method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2017
    Publication date: December 20, 2018
    Applicant: Werner Co.
    Inventor: Stephen Woodward
  • Patent number: 9104807
    Abstract: Systems and methods for providing symbolic information about fields, methods, and/or classes for a target device. A system and method may be used where the runtime processing is split between a host system and a target system. At the target device a test program uses a symbol not defined on the target device. A query is sent from the target device to a symbolic information source. The symbolic information source then provides the target device with information about the undefined symbol. The target device uses the information from the symbolic information source to complete the test program.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2015
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: John Fredric Arthur Dahms, Stephen Woodward, David Howes
  • Publication number: 20140351794
    Abstract: Systems and methods for providing symbolic information about fields, methods, and/or classes for a target device. A system and method may be used where the runtime processing is split between a host system and a target system. At the target device a test program uses a symbol not defined on the target device. A query is sent from the target device to a symbolic information source. The symbolic information source then provides the target device with information about the undefined symbol. The target device uses the information from the symbolic information source to complete the test program.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2014
    Publication date: November 27, 2014
    Inventors: John Fredric Arthur Dahms, Stephen Woodward, David Howes
  • Patent number: 8182143
    Abstract: Ambient temperature for a temperature sensor can be calculated using a mobile temperature sensor system that samples air from the boundary layer around a mobile platform and passes the air through a measurement cell containing two flush-mounted or embedded sensor elements. A common reference voltage can be applied by control circuitry to minimize drift in the sensor element readings and to calculate the ambient temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2012
    Assignee: SpectraSensors, Inc.
    Inventors: Rex J. Fleming, Randy Dean May, W. Stephen Woodward
  • Publication number: 20080159354
    Abstract: Ambient temperature for a temperature sensor can be calculated using a mobile temperature sensor system that samples air from the boundary layer around a mobile platform and passes the air through a measurement cell containing two flush-mounted or embedded sensor elements. A common reference voltage can be applied by control circuitry to minimize drift in the sensor element readings and to calculate the ambient temperature.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2007
    Publication date: July 3, 2008
    Inventors: Rex J. Fleming, Randy Dean May, W. Stephen Woodward
  • Publication number: 20060077100
    Abstract: Systems and methods for providing symbolic information about fields, methods, and/or classes for a target device. A system and method may be used where the runtime processing is split between a host system and a target system. At the target device a test program uses a symbol not defined on the target device. A query is sent from the target device to a symbolic information source. The symbolic information source then provides the target device with information about the undefined symbol. The target device uses the information from the symbolic information source to complete the test program.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2005
    Publication date: April 13, 2006
    Inventors: John Dahms, David Howes, Stephen Woodward
  • Patent number: 5723783
    Abstract: An acoustic displacement flowmeter determines the flow rate of a fluid in a path containing a controllable valve by establishing fluid flow along the path, directing the flow of the fluid to a transducer having a displacement element by restricting the flow path, generating a signal from the transducer representative of displacement due to fluid flow while the flow path is restricted, using the transducer to determine the fluid flow rate, and reestablishing fluid flow along the path by removing the restriction. The transducer signal is used to determine the fluid flow rate by providing an analog reference signal, integrating the analog reference signal for a predetermined time period, deintegrating the integrated reference signal with the transducer signal until the value of the deintegration signal reaches a threshold value, and using the time required for the deintegration signal to reach the threshold value to calculate the flow rate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 1994
    Date of Patent: March 3, 1998
    Assignee: J & W Scientific, Incorporated
    Inventor: William Stephen Woodward
  • Patent number: 5540104
    Abstract: An acoustic displacement flowmeter uses a high-compliance acoustic-type displacement transducer to measure fluid flow accumulated by temporarily restricting the flow of a fluid along a path. The displacement transducer signal, representative of fluid flow rate, is integrated after an initial settling period elapses, and the integrated signal is periodically sampled. The number of samples taken during a measurement cycle depends upon the slope of the integrated signal and the maximum sample period permitted. The samples are summed and the actual flow rate is computed by a microcomputer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 1995
    Date of Patent: July 30, 1996
    Assignee: J&W Scientific Incorporated
    Inventor: W. Stephen Woodward
  • Patent number: D622743
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2010
    Inventors: Thomas Bohrer, Stephen Woodward
  • Patent number: D838386
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2019
    Assignee: Werner Co.
    Inventor: Stephen Woodward
  • Patent number: D935207
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: Werner Co.
    Inventors: Michael T. Melton, Fang Chen, Stephen Woodward