Patents by Inventor Susan Barbara Ericksen

Susan Barbara Ericksen 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).

  • Method and system for authenticating and auditing access by a user to non-natively secured applications
    Patent number: 5748890
    Abstract: A method for authenticating access by a user to non-natively secured applications intended for use in cooperation with an operating system having a native security system. A profile is assigned to the user which defines the user's access rights to the non-natively secured applications. At least one datastore is provided in communication with the operating system for storing the user's profile relating to each of the non-natively secured applications, including an access control list defining authorized users and a set of pooled accounts authenticated for access to the respective non-natively secured application. The user's profile is compared with the access control list for the selected non-natively secured application to determine if a user is valid for the request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 1996
    Date of Patent: May 5, 1998
    Assignee: U S West, Inc.
    Inventors: Max Motti Goldberg, Melodi Mosley Gates, Susan Barbara Ericksen, William O. White