Patents by Inventor Tim Herres

Tim Herres 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).

  • Automated detection and validation of sanitizers
    Patent number: 8959646
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer-readable storage media for analyzing security of dataflows in programs. In some implementations, actions include processing source code using static analysis to: identify one or more dataflows and one or more candidate sanitizers, each candidate sanitizer being associated with a respective dataflow, and provide an executable sub-program for each candidate sanitizer to provide one or more executable sub-programs, processing the one or more executable sub-programs using dynamic analysis to: execute the one or more executable sub-programs, and provide dynamic analysis results, providing combined results based on the static analysis and the dynamic analysis, the combined results including the dynamic analysis results, and assigning a priority to each result in the combined results.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2015
    Assignee: SAP SE
    Inventors: Achim D. Brucker, Tim Herres
  • Automated Detection and Validation of Sanitizers
    Publication number: 20140380486
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer-readable storage media for analyzing security of dataflows in programs. In some implementations, actions include processing source code using static analysis to: identify one or more dataflows and one or more candidate sanitizers, each candidate sanitizer being associated with a respective dataflow, and provide an executable sub-program for each candidate sanitizer to provide one or more executable sub-programs, processing the one or more executable sub-programs using dynamic analysis to: execute the one or more executable sub-programs, and provide dynamic analysis results, providing combined results based on the static analysis and the dynamic analysis, the combined results including the dynamic analysis results, and assigning a priority to each result in the combined results.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2013
    Publication date: December 25, 2014
    Applicant: SAP AG
    Inventors: Achim D. Brucker, Tim Herres