Patents by Inventor Tirumaleswar Reddy Konda

Tirumaleswar Reddy Konda 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: 20240154937
    Abstract: There is disclosed in an example a gateway device, including a hardware computing platform, and a secure domain name system (DNS) engine having circuitry and stored instructions to-program the circuitry, the secure DNS engine to communicatively couple to an endpoint via a local network, begin a secure DNS transaction with the endpoint, determine whether the endpoint supports delegated credentials, and after determining that the endpoint supports delegated credentials, establish a secure DNS session with the endpoint using a delegated credential.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2024
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Applicant: McAfee, LLC
    Inventors: Tirumaleswar Reddy Konda, Shashank Jain, Himanshu Srivastava
  • Publication number: 20240126878
    Abstract: By way of example, a method includes, responsive to a user request to download, from the internet, a downloadable file with executable content, downloading a portion of the downloadable file, wherein the downloadable file is not executable with the portion; after download the portion of the downloadable file, scanning the portion of the downloadable file for malware characteristics to classify the downloadable file; and completing downloading the downloadable file only after determining, based on the scanning of the portion of the downloadable file, that the downloadable file is not malware.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2023
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Applicant: McAfee, LLC
    Inventors: Abhishek Tripathi, Mayur Arvind Bhole, Nithya Nadig Shikarpur, Tirumaleswar Reddy Konda, Mayank Bhatnagar
  • Patent number: 11930359
    Abstract: There is disclosed in an example, a gateway apparatus, including a hardware platform having a processor and a memory; a wireless network interface; and instructions encoded within the memory to instruct the processor to: provide a first virtual access point (VAP) secured by an IEEE 802.1x extensible authentication protocol (EAP) enterprise security method; provide a second VAP secured by a WiFi protected access pre-shared key (WPA-PSK) method; onboard a device, comprising determining whether the device supports the EAP method, and enrolling the device with the EAP method if the device supports the EAP method; and if the device does not support the EAP method, enrolling the device with the WPA-PSK method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: McAfee, LLC
    Inventors: Tirumaleswar Reddy Konda, Piyush Pramod Joshi, Devika Mishra, Shashank Jain
  • Patent number: 11917080
    Abstract: There is disclosed in one example a network gateway device, including: a hardware platform including a processor and a memory; a network interface, including network interface hardware; and instructions encoded within the memory to instruct the processor to: receive from an endpoint device, via the network interface, a signed security posture data structure, the signed security posture data structure including information about a security posture of the endpoint device; cryptographically verify the signed security posture data structure; and according to the signed security posture data structure, assign a network security policy to the endpoint device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: McAfee, LLC
    Inventors: Tirumaleswar Reddy Konda, Shashank Jain, Piyush Pramod Joshi, Himanshu Srivastava
  • Patent number: 11881938
    Abstract: There is disclosed in one example an enrollment over secure transport (EST)-capable gateway device, including: a hardware platform including a processor and a memory; a first network interface to communicatively couple to an external network, including an external DNS server; a second network interface to communicatively couple to a home network; a caching DNS server including a local DNS cache, and logic to provide DNS services to the home network; and an EST proxy to authenticate to a local endpoint on the home network, provision a DNS server certificate on the local endpoint, provision an authentication domain name (ADN) on the local endpoint, and provide encrypted domain name system (DNS) services to the local endpoint.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: McAfee, LLC
    Inventors: Tirumaleswar Reddy Konda, Shashank Jain, Himanshu Srivastava, Naveen Kumar Reddy Kandadi, Piyush Pramod Joshi
  • Patent number: 11876779
    Abstract: There is disclosed in an example a gateway device, including a hardware computing platform, and a secure domain name system (DNS) engine having circuitry and stored instructions to-program the circuitry, the secure DNS engine to communicatively couple to an endpoint via a local network, begin a secure DNS transaction with the endpoint, determine whether the endpoint supports delegated credentials, and after determining that the endpoint supports delegated credentials, establish a secure DNS session with the endpoint using a delegated credential.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: McAfee, LLC
    Inventors: Tirumaleswar Reddy Konda, Shashank Jain, Himanshu Srivastava
  • Patent number: 11847220
    Abstract: There is disclosed in one example a hardware computing platform, including: a processor; a memory; a network interface; and a security module, including instructions to cause the processor to: receive a request to download a file via the network interface; download a first portion of the file into a buffer of the memory; analyze the first portion for malware characteristics; assign a security classification to the file according to the analysis of the first portion; and act on the security classification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: McAfee, LLC
    Inventors: Abhishek Tripathi, Mayur Arvind Bhole, Nithya Nadig Shikarpur, Tirumaleswar Reddy Konda, Mayank Bhatnagar
  • Patent number: 11824645
    Abstract: There is disclosed in one example a computing apparatus, including: a hardware platform including a processor, a memory, and a network interface; and instructions encoded within the memory to instruct the processor to: receive an incoming packet via the network interface; extract from the incoming packet a source port and a source internet protocol (IP) address; correlate the source port and source IP to a device identifier (ID); receive a network policy for the device ID; and apply the network policy to the incoming packet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: McAfee, LLC
    Inventors: Harsha Ramamurthy Joshi, Tirumaleswar Reddy Konda, Shashank Jain, Piyush Pramod Joshi, Himanshu Srivastava
  • Patent number: 11805423
    Abstract: A technique for collecting and using signal reputation data, comprising obtaining a plurality of signal reputation data corresponding to a plurality of locations, categorizing the signal reputation data into groups, calculating signal circles for at least some of the groups based on a representative signal value for the corresponding group, calculating a signal reputation score for each signal circle, determining a best signal circle for a user mobile device within a predetermined distance of dead zones, and sending the best signal circle to the user mobile device based at least in part on the signal reputation score and a location of the user mobile device. In some embodiments, the technique may include some but not all of these actions and additional actions, such as suspending obtaining signal reputation data based on battery status.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: McAfee, LLC
    Inventors: Raja Sinha, Dattatraya Kulkarni, Srikanth Nalluri, Anjan Kumar Nayak, Tirumaleswar Reddy Konda, Susmita Nayak, Purushothaman B, Harsha R. Joshi
  • Patent number: 11784977
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture for communicating encrypted data via a virtual private network are disclosed. An example computer system disclosed herein includes a memory including instructions that, when executed, cause one or more processors to establish a first tunnel and a second tunnel between a VPN client and a VPN server. The instructions further cause the one or more processors to access a request message to be sent via the VPN and determine, in response to a payload being formatted using a first protocol, whether a packet associated with the request message includes an encrypted server name indication (SNI). The instructions further cause the one or more processors to, in response to the packet including the encrypted SNI, encrypt the header of the request message to form an encrypted header, create an encrypted message including the encrypted header and the payload of the request message, and transmit the encrypted message through the first tunnel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: MCAFEE, LLC
    Inventors: Tirumaleswar Reddy Konda, Shashank Jain, Himanshu Srivastava
  • Patent number: 11757930
    Abstract: Example methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture to implement cooperative mitigation of distributed denial of service attacks originating in local networks are disclosed. An example network element disclosed herein is to detect a first distributed denial of service attack associated with first network traffic received by an Internet service provider network, the first network traffic originating from a first device connected to a local network. The disclosed example network element is also to implement a threat signaling client to transmit first information describing the first distributed denial of service attack to a threat signaling server implemented by a local network router of the local network, and receive second information from the threat signaling server of the local network, the second information to provide a notification when the first network traffic associated with the first distributed denial of service attack has been mitigated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: McAfee, LLC
    Inventors: Tirumaleswar Reddy Konda, Harsha R. Joshi, Himanshu Srivastava, Srikanth Nalluri, Dattatraya Kulkarni
  • Patent number: 11722508
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and media for dynamically separating Internet of Things (IoT) devices in a network are provided. In accordance with some embodiments of the disclosed subject matter, a method for dynamically separating IoT devices in a network is provided, the method comprising: detecting a first IoT device in the network; monitoring network communication of the first IoT device; determining device information of the first IoT device based on the monitored network communication; and causing the first IoT device to communicate on a first subnet of a plurality of subnets in the network based on the device information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: McAfee, LLC
    Inventors: Himanshu Srivastava, Tirumaleswar Reddy Konda, Piyush P. Joshi, Harsha R Joshi, Srikanth Nalluri, Dattatraya Kulkarni, Siddaraya Revashetti
  • Patent number: 11711399
    Abstract: There is disclosed in one example a gateway apparatus, including: a hardware platform including a processor and a memory; and instructions stored within the memory to instruct the processor to: provide a domain name system (DNS) server, the DNS server to provide an encrypted DNS service, and to cache resolved domain names; receive an outgoing network packet; determine a destination address of the outgoing network packet; and upon determining that the destination address was not cached, apply a security policy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: McAfee, LLC
    Inventors: Tirumaleswar Reddy Konda, Shashank Jain, Piyush Pramod Joshi, Himanshu Srivastava
  • Publication number: 20230169161
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture are disclosed that determine a dynamic password update notification interval based on a breach risk classification and an automatic password update mechanism of an online service with which a user has an account. The disclosed methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture generate a password update suggestion and/or an automatic password update for the user at the dynamic password update notification interval determined by the processor circuitry.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2021
    Publication date: June 1, 2023
    Inventors: Tirumaleswar Reddy Konda, Shashank Jain, Devanshi Saxena
  • Publication number: 20230156038
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed to optimize telemetry collection and processing of Transport Layer Security (TLS) parameters. An example apparatus includes at least one memory, instructions, and at least one processor to execute the instructions to generate a TLS client sub-profile based on first telemetry data associated with a client device, generate a TLS server sub-profile based on second telemetry data associated with a first server, generate a hash value based on at least one of the TLS client sub-profile or the TLS server sub-profile, compare the hash value to a plurality of hash values corresponding to known TLS profiles, and, in response to identifying the at least one of the TLS client sub-profile or the TLS server sub-profile as a unique TLS profile based on the comparisons, transmit the at least one of the first or second telemetry data to a second server.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2021
    Publication date: May 18, 2023
    Inventors: Tirumaleswar Reddy Konda, Shashank Jain, Piyush Pramod Joshi, Himanshu Srivastava
  • Patent number: 11632254
    Abstract: There is disclosed in one example a home router, including: a hardware platform including a processor and a memory; a local area network (LAN) interface; a data store including rules for domain name-based services; and instructions encoded within the memory to instruct the processor to: provision a certificate and key pair to provide domain name system (DNS) over hypertext transfer protocol secure (DoH) or DNS over transport layer security (DoT) services; receive on the LAN interface an encrypted DNS request; decrypt the DNS request; query the data store according to the DNS request; receive a rule for the DNS request; and execute the rule.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: McAfee, LLC
    Inventors: Tirumaleswar Reddy Konda, Shashank Jain, Himanshu Srivastava
  • Publication number: 20230093904
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture are disclosed to improve the inspection of network data flows. An example apparatus includes memory, and processor circuitry to execute machine readable instructions to at least identify network domains accessible by at least one client device in a geographic location of interest, associate the identified network domains with Autonomous System Numbers (ASNs), create a list of respective ones of the ASNs that include a non-malicious status corresponding to Internet protocol (IP) addresses associated with respective ones of the identified network domains, and in response to receiving a reputation request corresponding to a destination IP address, cause inspection of a data flow to be skipped when the destination IP address is associated with the list of non-malicious ASNs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2021
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Inventors: Tirumaleswar Reddy Konda, Himanshu Srivastava, Shashank Jain
  • Publication number: 20230057373
    Abstract: A disclosed example includes obtaining first data associated with a first device class; build a vocabulary including keys that map to values for an incremental training batch, the incremental training batch based on the first data and exemplars from memory, the exemplars associated with a set of device classes, the exemplars include first means closest to first overall means for ones of the set of the device classes that were stored to the at least one memory during a previous incremental training batch; train a model based on the keys as input features and an updated set of the device classes that includes the first device class; and select a set of samples from the first data and the exemplars, the set of the samples includes second means closest to second overall means for ones of the updated set of the device classes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2021
    Publication date: February 23, 2023
    Inventors: Mayur Bhole, Tirumaleswar Reddy Konda, Urmil Parikh, Piyush Pramod Joshi
  • Publication number: 20220407855
    Abstract: There is disclosed in one example an enrollment over secure transport (EST)-capable gateway device, including: a hardware platform including a processor and a memory; a first network interface to communicatively couple to an external network, including an external DNS server; a second network interface to communicatively couple to a home network; a caching DNS server including a local DNS cache, and logic to provide DNS services to the home network; and an EST proxy to authenticate to a local endpoint on the home network, provision a DNS server certificate on the local endpoint, provision an authentication domain name (ADN) on the local endpoint, and provide encrypted domain name system (DNS) services to the local endpoint.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2022
    Publication date: December 22, 2022
    Inventors: Tirumaleswar Reddy Konda, Shashank Jain, Himanshu Srivastava, Naveen Kumar Reddy Kandadi, Piyush Pramod Joshi
  • Publication number: 20220377048
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and media for dynamically separating Internet of Things (IoT) devices in a network are provided. In accordance with some embodiments of the disclosed subject matter, a method for dynamically separating IoT devices in a network is provided, the method comprising: detecting a first IoT device in the network; monitoring network communication of the first IoT device; determining device information of the first IoT device based on the monitored network communication; and causing the first IoT device to communicate on a first subnet of a plurality of subnets in the network based on the device information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2022
    Publication date: November 24, 2022
    Inventors: Himanshu Srivastava, Tirumaleswar Reddy Konda, Piyush P. Joshi, Harsha R. Joshi, Srikanth Nalluri, Dattatraya Kulkarni, Siddaraya Revashetti