Patents by Inventor Venkat R. Rangamani

Venkat R. Rangamani 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).

  • Methods and apparatus for automated creation of security policy
    Patent number: 7516476
    Abstract: An automated method and apparatus for creating a security policy for one or more applications is provided. The method includes exercising the features of the one or more applications to generate behavioral data, applying a heuristic to aggregate the behavioral data into a subset of representative actions, and organizing the representative actions according to a structure defined by a template into a security policy for the one or more applications. The security policy may be downloaded to one or more workstations for deployment, and provides a safeguard to protect a computer system against cyber-terrorism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2009
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Jeffrey A. Kraemer, Brian F. Costello, Dan L. Grecu, Venkat R. Rangamani, Philip J. S. Gladstone, Alan J. Kirby