US 11,722,903 B2
Environmental verification for controlling access to data
Steven D. Ratts, Indian Harbour Beach, FL (US); Brian J. Noe, Indian Harbour Beach, FL (US); Kathryn E. Schmidt, Melbourne, FL (US); Alexander J. Voce, Melbourne, FL (US); Albert C. Stevens, St. Augustine, FL (US); and Michael Scholz, Melbourne, FL (US)
Assigned to NORTHROP GRUMMAN SYSTEMS CORPORATION, Falls Church, VA (US)
Filed by Steven D. Ratts, Indian Harbour Beach, FL (US); Brian J. Noe, Indian Harbour Beach, FL (US); Kathryn E. Schmidt, Melbourne, FL (US); Alexander J. Voce, Melbourne, FL (US); Albert C. Stevens, St. Augustine, FL (US); and Michael Scholz, Melbourne, FL (US)
Filed on Apr. 9, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/226,552.
Prior Publication US 2022/0330031 A1, Oct. 13, 2022
Int. Cl. H04W 12/65 (2021.01); H04W 12/63 (2021.01); H04W 12/08 (2021.01); G06F 21/62 (2013.01); G06F 21/71 (2013.01)
CPC H04W 12/65 (2021.01) [G06F 21/62 (2013.01); G06F 21/71 (2013.01); H04W 12/08 (2013.01); H04W 12/63 (2021.01)] 34 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A system for controlling access to data based on environmental verification, the system comprising:
a non-transitory memory having machine executable instructions; and
a processing unit for accessing the machine readable instructions, the machine readable instructions comprising:
a physical environment authenticator that:
receives data characterizing environmental parameters of a node in an environment from a set of environmental sensors; and
transforms and/or formats a first environmental parameter provided from a first environmental sensor of the set of environmental sensors into a unit of measurement employed to characterize a second environmental parameter provided from a second environmental sensor of the set of environmental sensors to form the plurality of correlated environmental parameters; and
compares correlated environmental parameters with each other and/or a threshold value, wherein at least a subset of the correlated environmental parameters are based on the data from the set of environmental sensors and grants access to data if the correlated environmental parameters indicate that the node is operating in an authorized environment and prevents access to the data if the correlated environmental parameters indicates that the node is not operating in an authorized environment.