Patents by Inventor Wayne Helm Gibson

Wayne Helm Gibson 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: 11943341
    Abstract: Example methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture (e.g., physical storage media) to implement contextual key management for data encryption are disclosed. Example apparatus disclosed are to determine whether a key mapping is associated with a combination of two or more context rules defined for a set of context values associated with input data to be encrypted. Disclosed example apparatus are also to, in response to a determination that no key mapping is associated with the combination of two or more context rules, map a key identifier to the combination of two or more context rules and generate a key corresponding to the key identifier. Disclosed example apparatus are further to encrypt the input data based on the key to obtain encrypted data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: McAfee, LLC
    Inventors: Mark Ian Gargett, Shashank Visweswara, Wayne Helm Gibson, David Paul Webb
  • Publication number: 20210226778
    Abstract: Example methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture (e.g., physical storage media) to implement contextual key management for data encryption are disclosed. Example apparatus disclosed are to determine whether a key mapping is associated with a combination of two or more context rules defined for a set of context values associated with input data to be encrypted. Disclosed example apparatus are also to, in response to a determination that no key mapping is associated with the combination of two or more context rules, map a key identifier to the combination of two or more context rules and generate a key corresponding to the key identifier. Disclosed example apparatus are further to encrypt the input data based on the key to obtain encrypted data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2021
    Publication date: July 22, 2021
    Inventors: Mark Ian Gargett, Shashank Visweswara, Wayne Helm Gibson, David Paul Webb
  • Patent number: 10972258
    Abstract: Example methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture (e.g., physical storage media) to implement contextual key management for data encryption are disclosed. Example apparatus disclosed herein to perform contextual encryption key management, which are also referred to herein as contextual key managers, include an example context discoverer to discover context information associated with a request to access first encrypted data. Such disclosed example apparatus also include an example contextual key mapper to identify a combination of context rules associated with a key that is to provide access to the first encrypted data, validate the context information associated with the request based on the combination of context rules associated with the key to determine whether the request to access the first encrypted data is valid, and obtain the key from a key management service when the request to access the first encrypted data is valid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: McAfee, LLC
    Inventors: Mark Ian Gargett, Shashank Visweswara, Wayne Helm Gibson, David Paul Webb
  • Publication number: 20200044830
    Abstract: Example methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture (e.g., physical storage media) to implement contextual key management for data encryption are disclosed. Example apparatus disclosed herein to perform contextual encryption key management, which are also referred to herein as contextual key managers, include an example context discoverer to discover context information associated with a request to access first encrypted data. Such disclosed example apparatus also include an example contextual key mapper to identify a combination of context rules associated with a key that is to provide access to the first encrypted data, validate the context information associated with the request based on the combination of context rules associated with the key to determine whether the request to access the first encrypted data is valid, and obtain the key from a key management service when the request to access the first encrypted data is valid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2018
    Publication date: February 6, 2020
    Inventors: Mark Ian Gargett, Shashank Visweswara, Wayne Helm Gibson, David Paul Webb