Jeffrey Marlon Young

US Patent:

20150040217, Feb 5, 2015

Filed:

Aug 2, 2013

Appl. No.:

13/957967

Inventors:

- Armonk NY, US
Don T. Bailey - Fort Worth TX, US
Shane B. McElligott - Apex NC, US
Hien Q. Nguyen - Beaverton OR, US
Susan M. Romero - Seattle WA, US
Jeffrey D. Young - Raleigh NC, US

Assignee:

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

International Classification:

H04L 29/06

US Classification:

726 22

Abstract:

An approach for monitoring and protecting electronic data in a networked computing environment (e.g., a cloud computing environment) is provided. In a typical embodiment, an activity monitor gathers characteristics of data traffic of one or more virtual machines. The data traffic is analyzed to determine whether any of the data traffic is indicative of a malicious activity (e.g., unauthorized data transfers). If it appears a VM is engaging in malicious activity, then a counter for the VM is incremented by a predefined value that is associated with the malicious activity. When the counter for the VM exceeds a point threshold, a remediation action is taken with respect to the VM.

US Patent:

20140136477, May 15, 2014

Filed:

Aug 30, 2013

Appl. No.:

14/015449

Inventors:

Jeffrey Douglas Young - Houston TX, US
Christopher Norton Davies - League City TX, US
Daniel Leonard Lamper - Richmond TX, US
Alan Justin Stepp - Dallas TX, US

International Classification:

G06F 17/30

US Classification:

707609

Abstract:

A method for monitoring and assessing a conditioning/reconditioning process of products, such as new or used cars of a dealership, includes capturing images of products as they progress through stations of the conditioning process, communicating each captured image, in real time when captured, together with a timestamp for the capture of the image, to a central repository, creating a record from each first image and timestamp corresponding to each new or used product prior to the conditioning process, updating the record with each subsequent image and timestamp during the conditioning process (e.g., before and after each next work station in the conditioning progression), and generating reports by the central repository, responsive to requests, in respect of at least portions of the record.