Patents

Twenty-one issued U.S. patents in network performance, security, and resilience, each naming Sean O’Hara as inventor.

Each patent number links to its full record on Google Patents, including claims, drawings, and the original PDF.

21 issued U.S. patents · 8 as sole inventor · 2017 to 2025
Network performance · Security · Resilience

2025

  1. System and Method for Obscuring Status of a Network Service

    US 12,341,810 B2 · Issued June 24, 2025

    With Steinthor Bjarnason

  2. Bridging Between Client and Server Devices Using Proxied Network Metrics

    US 12,284,209 B2 · Issued April 22, 2025 · Continuation of US 12,095,811

    Sole inventor

  3. Decryption of Perfect Forward Secrecy (PFS) and Non-PFS Sessions

    US 12,192,248 B2 · Issued January 7, 2025

    With Archana A. Rajaram

2024

  1. Bridging Between Client and Server Devices Using Proxied Network Metrics

    US 12,095,811 B2 · Issued September 17, 2024

    Sole inventor

  2. System and Method for DNS Misuse Detection

    US 12,041,095 B2 · Issued July 16, 2024 · Continuation of US 11,743,301

    With Brian St. Pierre and Edmund J. Gurney III

  3. System and Method for Scheduling Transmission of Network Packets

    US 12,003,423 B1 · Issued June 4, 2024

    Sole inventor

  4. Automated Classification of Network Devices to Protection Groups

    US 11,985,043 B2 · Issued May 14, 2024

    With Kyle Barkmeier, Alan Saqui, Brantleigh Bunting, and Bryan Beecher

2023

  1. Real Time Management of Botnet Attacks

    US 11,785,042 B2 · Issued October 10, 2023

    With Andrew David Mortensen and Brian St. Pierre

  2. System and Method for DNS Misuse Detection

    US 11,743,301 B2 · Issued August 29, 2023

    With Brian St. Pierre and Edmund J. Gurney III

  3. Clustering Network Servers for Denial of Service Attacks

    US 11,616,807 B2 · Issued March 28, 2023

    With Alan Saqui

  4. Transparent Inspection of Traffic Encrypted with Perfect Forward Secrecy (PFS)

    US 11,601,456 B2 · Issued March 7, 2023

    With Archana A. Rajaram

  5. Scoring Network Traffic Service Requests Using Response Time Metrics

    US 11,558,266 B2 · Issued January 17, 2023

    Sole inventor

2022

  1. Detection and Mitigation of Cryptojacking

    US 11,539,744 B2 · Issued December 27, 2022

    Sole inventor

  2. Automated Classification of Network Devices to Protection Groups

    US 11,469,968 B2 · Issued October 11, 2022

    With Justin William Haddad

  3. Automatic Detection of Network Strain Using Response Time Metrics

    US 11,444,966 B2 · Issued September 13, 2022

    Sole inventor

  4. Detecting and Mitigating Application Layer DDoS Attacks

    US 11,431,750 B2 · Issued August 30, 2022

    With Steinthor Bjarnason

  5. Automatically Configuring Clustered Network Services

    US 11,343,228 B2 · Issued May 24, 2022

    With Alan Saqui

2021

  1. System and Method for Preventing Session Level Attacks

    US 11,178,177 B1 · Issued November 16, 2021

    With Conner Jones

  2. Mitigation of Network Denial of Service Attacks Using IP Location Services

    US 11,165,817 B2 · Issued November 2, 2021

    With Andrew David Mortensen and Brian St. Pierre

2020

  1. System and Method for Detecting Slowloris-Type Attacks Using Server Application Statistics

    US 10,798,124 B2 · Issued October 6, 2020

    Sole inventor

2017

  1. System and Method for Providing Data Storage Redundancy for a Protected Network

    US 9,628,510 B2 · Issued April 18, 2017

    Sole inventor