Bret Michael Needle from Foster City, CA, age 60

Method, System, And Computer Program Product For Blocking Malicious Program Behaviors
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US Patent:

7818800, Oct 19, 2010
Filed:

Aug 4, 2006
Appl. No.:

11/499283
Inventors:

Bret Michael Needle - Austin TX, US
Mark Eric Obrecht - Austin TX, US
Assignee:

Symantec Corporation - Mountain View CA
International Classification:

G06F 12/14
US Classification:

726 22, 726 23
Abstract:

Various embodiments of a system and method for blocking malicious program behaviors, such as keystroke logging behavior or screen capture behavior, are disclosed. Security software may execute on a computer system, where the security software is operable to monitor the computer system to detect malicious program behavior. In response to detecting a first condition indicating that monitoring of the computer system to detect malicious program behavior should be initiated, the security software automatically initiates monitoring of the computer system to detect malicious program behavior. After initiating the monitoring for malicious program behavior, the security software may detect malicious program behavior of a second program executing on the computer system and block the malicious program behavior of the second program.

System And Method For Checking And Characterizing Snapshot Metadata Using Snapshot Metadata Database
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US Patent:

20180137014, May 17, 2018
Filed:

Nov 17, 2016
Appl. No.:

15/354984
Inventors:

- Palo Alto CA, US
Li Ding - Cupertino CA, US
Bret Needle - Foster City CA, US
Mayank Rawat - Cupertino CA, US
Assignee:

VMware, Inc. - Palo Alto CA
International Classification:

G06F 11/14
G06F 17/30
Abstract:

System and method for checking and characterizing metadata of snapshots utilize a snapshot metadata database to execute at least one of checking and characterizing operations on the metadata of snapshots. The snapshot metadata database includes information extracted from backing storage elements containing the metadata of snapshots.

Leveraging Hierarchy In A Tree Data Structure To Dynamically Allocate Keys
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US Patent:

20170091241, Mar 30, 2017
Filed:

Sep 29, 2015
Appl. No.:

14/869024
Inventors:

- Palo Alto CA, US
Ritesh Shukla - Saratoga CA, US
Li Ding - Cupertino CA, US
Bret Needle - Foster City CA, US
Mayank Rawat - Sunnyvale CA, US
International Classification:

G06F 17/30
Abstract:

Techniques for dynamically allocating keys in an instance of a tree data structure are provided. In one embodiment, a computer system can, at a time of instantiating each non-root node in the instance, determine a key space to be addressed by the non-root node, where the key space is based on a key subinterval in a parent node of the non-root node that is associated with a pointer to the non-root node. The computer system can further calculate a number of bits to allocate to each key of the non-root node in view of the determined key space. The computer system can then allocate the keys of the non-root node in accordance with the calculated number of bits.

Tuning Key Space At The Time Of Instantiation Of A Tree Data Structure
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US Patent:

20170091242, Mar 30, 2017
Filed:

Sep 29, 2015
Appl. No.:

14/869099
Inventors:

- Palo Alto CA, US
Serge Pashenkov - Los Altos CA, US
Li Ding - Cupertino CA, US
Bret Needle - Foster City CA, US
Mayank Rawat - Sunnyvale CA, US
International Classification:

G06F 17/30
Abstract:

Techniques for tuning the key space of an instance of a tree data structure are provided. In one embodiment, a computer system can receive a request to create the instance, where the request includes an expected key space value indicating an expected range of key values to be addressed by the instance. The computer system can further calculate a number of bits to allocate to each key of each node of the instance based on the expected key space value. The computer system can then, at a time of instantiating each node of the instance, allocate the keys for the node in accordance with the calculated number of bits.