Patents by Inventor Steven Dale Shanklin

Steven Dale Shanklin 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).

  • Application Trust Listing Service
    Publication number: 20170213023
    Abstract: Provided are techniques for controlling access to computing resources comprising generating a first fingerprint corresponding to a first executable file; storing the fingerprint in a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium; receiving a request to execute a second executable file on a computing system generating a second fingerprint corresponding to the second executable file; determining whether or not the first fingerprint matches the second fingerprint; and, in response to determining that the first and second fingerprints match, executing the executable file on the computing system; and, in response to determining that the first and second fingerprints do not match, preventing the executable file from executing on the computing system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2017
    Publication date: July 27, 2017
    Applicant: White Cloud Security, L.L.C.
    Inventors: Steven Dale Shanklin, Steven R. Snapp
  • Application trust-listing security service
    Patent number: 9589130
    Abstract: Provided are techniques for controlling access to computing resources comprising generating a first fingerprint corresponding to a first executable file; storing the fingerprint in a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium; receiving a request to execute a second executable file on a computing system; generating a second fingerprint corresponding to the second executable file; determining whether or not the first fingerprint matches the second fingerprint; and, in response to determining that the first and second fingerprints match, executing the executable file on the computing system; and, in response to determining that the first and second fingerprints do not match, preventing the executable file from executing on the computing system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2017
    Assignee: White Cloud Security, L.L.C.
    Inventors: Steven Dale Shanklin, Steven R. Snapp
  • APPLICATION TRUST-LISTING SECURITY SERVICE
    Publication number: 20150074759
    Abstract: Provided are techniques for controlling access to computing resources comprising generating a first fingerprint corresponding to a first executable file; storing the fingerprint in a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium; receiving a request to execute a second executable file on a computing system; generating a second fingerprint corresponding to the second executable file; determining whether or not the first fingerprint matches the second fingerprint; and, in response to determining that the first and second fingerprints match, executing the executable file on the computing system; and, in response to determining that the first and second fingerprints do not match, preventing the executable file from executing on the computing system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2014
    Publication date: March 12, 2015
    Inventor: Steven Dale Shanklin