Patents by Inventor Thomas M. Belote

Thomas M. Belote 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: 10762191
    Abstract: An identity management system detects the occurrence of a trigger event, such as a time period expiration, or an action on the identity management system. The identity management system accordingly generates a new password for an account of a user on a third-party service and causes the account of the user on the third-party service to use the new password. The identity management system can also detect a manual user change of a password for a third-party service and cause configuration of client devices of the user to reflect the new password.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: Okta, Inc.
    Inventors: Hector Aguilar-Macias, Reman P. Child, Xin Gu, Jonathan R. Todd, Thomas M. Belote
  • Patent number: 10470040
    Abstract: After an initial user sign-on with an identity provider, and in response to an intention of the user to use a third-party application executing on a client device of the user and requiring user sign-on, the identity provider provides a client script to the third-party application. The client script facilitates user and application authentication and invokes a trusted broker application that interacts with the identity provider to enable the user to use the third-party application. The use of the trusted broker application provided by the identity provider frees the authors of third-party applications from the need to modify their applications to explicitly sign in with the identify provider. For enhanced security, conformance to an organizational security policy is verified at time of sign-on, and an authenticatable link is used to invoke the third-party application to foil attempts by malicious software to substitute another application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: OKTA, INC.
    Inventors: Thomas M. Belote, Hassen Karaa, Christine Wang, Vinoth Jayaraman, Marc Powell, Shaolin Shen, Naveed Makhani, Ankit Garg
  • Publication number: 20190095609
    Abstract: An identity management system detects the occurrence of a trigger event, such as a time period expiration, or an action on the identity management system. The identity management system accordingly generates a new password for an account of a user on a third-party service and causes the account of the user on the third-party service to use the new password. The identity management system can also detect a manual user change of a password for a third-party service and cause configuration of client devices of the user to reflect the new password.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 26, 2018
    Publication date: March 28, 2019
    Inventors: Hector Aguilar-Macias, Reman P. Child, Xin Gu, Jonathan R. Todd, Thomas M. Belote
  • Publication number: 20190069168
    Abstract: After an initial user sign-on with an identity provider, and in response to an intention of the user to use a third-party application executing on a client device of the user and requiring user sign-on, the identity provider provides a client script to the third-party application. The client script facilitates user and application authentication and invokes a trusted broker application that interacts with the identity provider to enable the user to use the third-party application. The use of the trusted broker application provided by the identity provider frees the authors of third-party applications from the need to modify their applications to explicitly sign in with the identify provider. For enhanced security, conformance to an organizational security policy is verified at time of sign-on, and an authenticatable link is used to invoke the third-party application to foil attempts by malicious software to substitute another application.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2017
    Publication date: February 28, 2019
    Inventors: Thomas M. Belote, Hassen Karaa, Christine Wang, Vinoth Jayaraman, Marc Powell, Shaolin Shen, Naveed Makhani, Ankit Garg
  • Patent number: 10169569
    Abstract: An identity management system detects the occurrence of a trigger event, such as a time period expiration, or an action on the identity management system. The identity management system accordingly generates a new password for an account of a user on a third-party service and causes the account of the user on the third-party service to use the new password. The identity management system can also detect a manual user change of a password for a third-party service and cause configuration of client devices of the user to reflect the new password.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignee: Okta, Inc.
    Inventors: Hector Aguilar-Macias, Reman P. Child, Xin Gu, Jonathan R. Todd, Thomas M. Belote
  • Publication number: 20180150631
    Abstract: An identity management system detects the occurrence of a trigger event, such as a time period expiration, or an action on the identity management system. The identity management system accordingly generates a new password for an account of a user on a third-party service and causes the account of the user on the third-party service to use the new password. The identity management system can also detect a manual user change of a password for a third-party service and cause configuration of client devices of the user to reflect the new password.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2018
    Publication date: May 31, 2018
    Inventors: Hector Aguilar-Macias, Reman P. Child, Xin Gu, Jonathan R. Todd, Thomas M. Belote
  • Patent number: 9916437
    Abstract: An identity management system detects the occurrence of a trigger event, such as a time period expiration, or an action on the identity management system. The identity management system accordingly generates a new password for an account of a user on a third-party service and causes the account of the user on the third-party service to use the new password. The identity management system can also detect a manual user change of a password for a third-party service and cause configuration of client devices of the user to reflect the new password.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2018
    Assignee: Okta, Inc.
    Inventors: Hector Aguilar-Macias, Reman P. Child, Xin Gu, Jonathan R. Todd, Thomas M. Belote
  • Patent number: 9852286
    Abstract: An identity management system detects the occurrence of a trigger event, such as a time period expiration, or an action on the identity management system. The identity management system accordingly generates a new password for an account of a user on a third-party service and causes the account of the user on the third-party service to use the new password. The identity management system may also a mobile device management system to configure a client of the user with the new password.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2017
    Assignee: Okta, Inc.
    Inventors: Hector Aguilar-Macias, Reman P. Child, Xin Gu, Jonathan R. Todd, Thomas M. Belote
  • Patent number: 9548976
    Abstract: After an initial user sign-on with an identity provider, and in response to an intention of the user to use a third-party application executing on a client device of the user and requiring user sign-on, the identity provider provides a client script to the third-party application. The client script facilitates user and application authentication and invokes a trusted broker application that interacts with the identity provider to enable the user to use the third-party application. The use of the trusted broker application provided by the identity provider frees the authors of third-party applications from the need to modify their applications to explicitly sign in with the identify provider.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2017
    Assignee: Okta, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas M. Belote, Hassen Karaa, Christine Wang, Vinoth Jayaraman
  • Publication number: 20160036806
    Abstract: An identity management system detects the occurrence of a trigger event, such as a time period expiration, or an action on the identity management system. The identity management system accordingly generates a new password for an account of a user on a third-party service and causes the account of the user on the third-party service to use the new password. The identity management system may also a mobile device management system to configure a client of the user with the new password.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2015
    Publication date: February 4, 2016
    Inventors: Hector Aguilar-Macias, Reman P. Child, Xin Gu, Jonathan R. Todd, Thomas M. Belote
  • Publication number: 20160034684
    Abstract: An identity management system detects the occurrence of a trigger event, such as a time period expiration, or an action on the identity management system. The identity management system accordingly generates a new password for an account of a user on a third-party service and causes the account of the user on the third-party service to use the new password. The identity management system can also detect a manual user change of a password for a third-party service and cause configuration of client devices of the user to reflect the new password.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2015
    Publication date: February 4, 2016
    Inventors: Hector Aguilar-Macias, Reman P. Child, Xin Gu, Jonathan R. Todd, Thomas M. Belote
  • Publication number: 20150326562
    Abstract: After an initial user sign-on with an identity provider, and in response to an intention of the user to use a third-party application executing on a client device of the user and requiring user sign-on, the identity provider provides a client script to the third-party application. The client script facilitates user and application authentication and invokes a trusted broker application that interacts with the identity provider to enable the user to use the third-party application. The use of the trusted broker application provided by the identity provider frees the authors of third-party applications from the need to modify their applications to explicitly sign in with the identify provider.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 4, 2015
    Publication date: November 12, 2015
    Inventors: Thomas M. Belote, Hassen Karaa, Christine Wang, Vinoth Jayaraman