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Eric W. Shepperd

Examiner (ID: 12031, Phone: (571)270-5654 , Office: P/2492 )

Most Active Art Unit
2492
Art Unit(s)
2453, 2492, 2456
Total Applications
630
Issued Applications
478
Pending Applications
40
Abandoned Applications
122

Applications

Application numberTitle of the applicationFiling DateStatus
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17/916541
Bluetooth networking method for electronic device and related device Apr 1, 2021 Issued
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17/216349
Extending cloud-based virtual private networks to radio-based networks Mar 28, 2021 Issued
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17/206423
DETERMINISTIC SPARSE-TREE BASED CRYPTOGRAPHIC PROOF OF LIABILITIES Mar 18, 2021 Abandoned
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17/204267
Device management in power systems using media access control security (MACsec) Mar 16, 2021 Issued
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17/909474
SECURE AND DOCUMENTED KEY ACCESS BY AN APPLICATION Mar 1, 2021 Abandoned
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17/187940
Establishing trust between two devices for secure peer-to-peer communication Feb 28, 2021 Issued
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17/249114
Management of network intercept portals for network devices with durable and non-durable identifiers Feb 18, 2021 Issued
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17/178229
CODE TRACKING AND IDENTIFICATION Feb 16, 2021 Abandoned
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17/177257
ATTRIBUTE-BASED FIREWALL RULE ENFORCEMENT Feb 16, 2021 Abandoned
Array ( [id] => 17794440 [patent_doc_number] => 20220253532 [patent_country] => US [patent_kind] => A1 [patent_issue_date] => 2022-08-11 [patent_title] => ELECTRONIC SYSTEM FOR IDENTIFYING FAULTY CODE AND VULNERABILITIES IN SOFTWARE PROGRAMS USING LINKED EVALUATION TOOLS [patent_app_type] => utility [patent_app_number] => 17/173547 [patent_app_country] => US [patent_app_date] => 2021-02-11 [patent_effective_date] => 0000-00-00 [patent_drawing_sheets_cnt] => 0 [patent_figures_cnt] => 0 [patent_no_of_words] => 16358 [patent_no_of_claims] => 0 [patent_no_of_ind_claims] => -17 [patent_words_short_claim] => 406 [patent_maintenance] => 1 [patent_no_of_assignments] => 0 [patent_current_assignee] =>[type] => publication [pdf_file] =>[firstpage_image] =>[orig_patent_app_number] => 17173547 [rel_patent_id] =>[rel_patent_doc_number] =>)
17/173547
Electronic system for identifying faulty code and vulnerabilities in software programs using linked evaluation tools Feb 10, 2021 Issued
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17/153080
Expended trust for onboarding Jan 19, 2021 Issued
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17/152043
System functionality activation using distributed ledger Jan 18, 2021 Issued
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17/151142
Performing cybersecurity operations based on impact scores of computing events over a rolling time interval Jan 15, 2021 Issued
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17/138650
Secure data analytics sampling within a 5G virtual slice Dec 29, 2020 Issued
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17/133526
Mechanism to provide customer VCN network encryption using customer-managed keys in network virtualization device Dec 22, 2020 Issued
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17/131540
Correlation between source code repositories and web endpoints Dec 21, 2020 Issued
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17/129707
METHODS AND SYSTEMS TO DETECT ROGUE HOTSPOTS Dec 20, 2020 Issued
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17/125052
Secure deployment confirmation of IOT devices via bearer tokens with caveats Dec 16, 2020 Issued
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17/120967
Secret regeneration in a storage system Dec 13, 2020 Issued
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17/114944
System and method for secure shell API connector Dec 7, 2020 Issued
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