Patents by Inventor Tal Sheffer

Tal Sheffer 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).

  • Publication number: 20240114077
    Abstract: Systems and methods of assigning community promoting roles in a virtual computer network of users, including: determining usage of shared information among at least two users sharing information via computers connected by a virtual computer network, assigning at least one community promoting role to at least one user within the virtual computer network of users, wherein the at least one community promoting role is determined based on the determined usage of the shared information, calculating a community contribution score of the at least one user, to the virtual computer network of users, and managing communication traffic in the virtual computer network based on the determined roles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2022
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Applicant: Pocoz Israel Ltd
    Inventors: Tal SHEFFER, Yair LIEBERTHAL
  • Patent number: 10686820
    Abstract: A method for evaluating a scope of cyber-attack incidents, the method may include detecting original compromised assets and malicious external machines that are related to each of the cyber-attack incidents; classifying potentially compromised assets to different classes based on (a) similarities between the potentially compromised assets and the original compromised assets, (b) a level of accessibility from the original compromised assets and malicious external machines to the potentially compromised assets, and (c) volumes of traffic between the potentially compromised assets and each one of the malicious external machines and the original compromised assets; wherein the different classes comprise compromised and non-compromised; and generating an alert that is indicative of the compromised assets and of potentially compromised assets that were classified as compromised.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2020
    Assignee: SKYBOX SECURITY Ltd
    Inventors: Tal Sheffer, Ravid Circus, Moshe Raab, Lior Ben Naon, Gideon David Cohen
  • Patent number: 8621552
    Abstract: A method for evaluating a deployment of a network access change request, the method includes: (a) formatting a network access change request to provide a formatted network access change request; wherein the formatted network access change request includes multiple formatted request items; wherein the multiple formatted request items includes a requested access type, an address of an access source, an address of an access destination; (b) determining multiple relationships between the multiple formatted request items and corresponding items of at least one entity out of a network model and a current network policy; and (c) responding to the network access change request in response to the multiple determined relationships.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2013
    Assignee: Skybox Security Inc.
    Inventors: Amnon Lotem, Alexander Haiut, Ravid Circus, Moshe Raab, Amos Arev, Gideon Cohen, Tal Sheffer