Patents by Inventor William Keith Engel

William Keith Engel 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).

  • Integrated security event management system
    Patent number: 8091114
    Abstract: An integrated security event management system (ISEMS) is disclosed and is based on service-oriented architecture (SOA) and includes one or more computers connected to one or more service-providing devices. At least one of the computers comprises one or more modules that are adapted to perform the following tasks: tasks to dynamically discover the service-providing devices and their services within a transit security domain in about real-time; tasks to acquire asynchronous state information notifications in about real-time from the discovered services; tasks to determine one or more Boolean outcomes from the asynchronous state information in about real-time via a configurable rules engine; and tasks to evaluate the one or more Boolean outcomes in about real-time via a configurable policy engine to determine state changes of one or more security policies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2012
    Assignee: Bombardier Transportation GmbH
    Inventors: Richard Nicholas Lommock, Michael Cross, Robert Blair Ciora, Christopher Crawford, Mark David Kirschner, Joseph Paul Schreibeis, William Keith Engel
  • Integrated Security Event Management System
    Publication number: 20110184901
    Abstract: An integrated security event management system (ISEMS) is disclosed and is based on service-oriented architecture (SOA) and includes one or more computers connected to one or more service-providing devices. At least one of the computers comprises one or more modules that are adapted to perform the following tasks: tasks to dynamically discover the service-providing devices and their services within a transit security domain in about real-time; tasks to acquire asynchronous state information notifications in about real-time from the discovered services; tasks to determine one or more Boolean outcomes from the asynchronous state information in about real-time via a configurable rules engine; and tasks to evaluate the one or more Boolean outcomes in about real-time via a configurable policy engine to determine state changes of one or more security policies.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2007
    Publication date: July 28, 2011
    Applicant: BOMBARDIER TRANSPORTATION GMBH
    Inventors: Richard Nicholas Lommock, Michael Cross, Robert Blair Ciora, Christopher Crawford, Mark David Kirschner, Joseph Paul Schreibeis, William Keith Engel