Patents by Inventor William H. Sanders

William H. Sanders 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: 8209738
    Abstract: A method for analysis of distributed device rule-sets for compliance with global policies includes enabling an administrator to specify a network topology with intercommunicating elements and parameters required to secure the intercommunication with access control elements of the network topology; establishing connections to the access controls elements to capture a snapshot configuration of device rule-sets of the access control elements; enabling the administrator to specify a set of global access constraints with reference to the access control elements; enabling the administrator to select between exhaustive analysis and statistical analysis; conducting the selected analysis to determine violations by the device rule-sets that fail to comply with the set of global access constraints, wherein statistical analysis quantitatively characterizes a level of compliance without conducting analysis of all potential network paths; and providing results of the selected analysis to the administrator through a graphic
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2012
    Assignee: The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois
    Inventors: David M. Nicol, William H. Sanders, Sankalp Singh, Mouna Seri
  • Publication number: 20080301765
    Abstract: A method for analysis of distributed device rule-sets for compliance with global policies includes enabling an administrator to specify a network topology with intercommunicating elements and parameters required to secure the intercommunication with access control elements of the network topology; establishing connections to the access controls elements to capture a snapshot configuration of device rule-sets of the access control elements; enabling the administrator to specify a set of global access constraints with reference to the access control elements; enabling the administrator to select between exhaustive analysis and statistical analysis; conducting the selected analysis to determine violations by the device rule-sets that fail to comply with the set of global access constraints, wherein statistical analysis quantitatively characterizes a level of compliance without conducting analysis of all potential network paths; and providing results of the selected analysis to the administrator through a graphic
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2008
    Publication date: December 4, 2008
    Applicant: The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois
    Inventors: David M. Nicol, William H. Sanders, Sankalp Singh, Mouna Seri
  • Patent number: 4016941
    Abstract: A portable and high-speed tool reciprocator for small tools, such as files, cutters, burnishing and polishing stones, leathers and the like, of a size easily held in one hand of an operator; fluid driven, preferably by a pneumatic fluid, the length of the reciprocatory stroke of which reciprocator may be adjusted, while in operative reciprocation, without the reorganization of its parts or the employment of extraneous gear, and the reciprocated tool may be selectively controlled to be either free or locked against rotation about its axis of reciprocation, while in operative reciprocation, without the reorganization of the reciprocator parts or the employment of extraneous gear, thus to enable the tool and its working face to move angularly relative to its axis of reciprocation and the holder, when free floating, or, when locked, to dispose the tool and its working face at some desired angle to tool reciprocation and the holder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 1975
    Date of Patent: April 12, 1977
    Inventor: William H. Sanders