Patents Assigned to ValiMail Inc.
  • Patent number: 11991139
    Abstract: A computing server may receive an authorization from a domain owner to gain access to email data of the domain owner. The email data may be hosted by a mailbox service provider on behalf of the domain owner. The computing server may determine email protocol check results of the email data retrieved from the mailbox service provider. The computing server may determine that a sender has a number of failed emails in the email data that fail the email protocol check. The computing server may identify, from the email data, one or more recipients of the domain owner to whom the failed emails intend to be sent. The computing server may notify the domain owner regarding information about the one or more recipients.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: ValiMail Inc.
    Inventor: Seth Joshua Blank
  • Patent number: 11909880
    Abstract: Embodiments relate to a system that may include a third-party server and a domain name system (DNS). The third-party server may be configured to receive a request for a credential from a named entity device for the named entity device to communicate with an application programming interface (API). The API may be associated with a domain. The third-party server may obtain the credential from the API. The third-party server may encrypt the credential with a public key corresponding to the named entity device to generate an encrypted credential. The DNS may be configured to receive the encrypted credential and publish a DNS record at a namespace of the DNS, the DNS record containing the encrypted credential for the named entity device to retrieve the credential. The named entity device may decrypt the encrypted credential by the private key stored at the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: ValiMail Inc.
    Inventors: Ashley Duane Wilson, Peter Martin Goldstein
  • Patent number: 11811831
    Abstract: A DNS server receives from a receiving email system, a DNS query for an email domain stored at the DNS server, the DNS query including identifying information of a sender of an email. The DNS server extracts the identifying information of the email sender from the DNS query and identifies one of a plurality of delivering organizations from the information. The DNS server determines whether the identified delivering organization is authorized to deliver email on behalf of the email domain. In response to determining that the identified delivering organization is authorized to deliver email on behalf of the email domain, the DNS server generates a target validation record based on the identity of the authorized delivering organization and the email domain, the target validation record including one or more rules indicating to the receiving email system whether the delivering organization is an authorized sender of email for the email domain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: ValiMail Inc.
    Inventor: Peter Martin Goldstein
  • Patent number: 11743257
    Abstract: An application-operating organization may delegate a third-party server to serve as an automated contextual authentication responder and an authorization responder. The third-party server may manage a delegated section of the organization's namespace that includes the public identities of various devices controlled by the organization. The third-party server may also dynamically generate interaction control list that is tailored to a requesting device's context based on the interaction control policies set forth by the organization. The interaction control list may include information that determines the authorization of the requesting device to interact with another device. The third-party server may also automatically determine the role of a new device to which existing policies are inapplicable and provide guided workflow for the organization to set up new interaction control policies in governing the new device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: ValiMail Inc.
    Inventors: Peter Martin Goldstein, Seth Joshua Blank, Ashley Duane Wilson, Jack William Abbott, Robert Benjamin Barclay
  • Patent number: 11695745
    Abstract: A third-party server, delegated by organizations to manage application environment, may maintain a plurality of guided workflow plans. At least one of the guided workflow plans may include one or more steps associated with setting up an interaction control policy. The third-party server may receive an interaction report associated with the organization. The interaction report may include metadata of one or more devices that interacted with other devices. The third-party server may identify a particular device to which existing interaction control policies of the organization are inapplicable. The third-party server may search for additional out-of-band information of the particular device using the metadata in the interaction report. The third-party server may select an applicable guided workflow plan for setting up an applicable interaction control policy for the particular device. A guided workflow may be presented via a graphical user interface according to the applicable guided workflow plan.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: ValiMail Inc.
    Inventors: Seth Joshua Blank, Ashley Duane Wilson, Peter Martin Goldstein, Jack William Abbott, Robert Benjamin Barclay
  • Patent number: 11658950
    Abstract: Embodiments relate to systems for the distribution of payload in a secure manner. A server may receive a query from a device that includes a subscriber identifier. The server may determine, from confidential information stored, an association between the subscriber identifier and a public key of the device. The server may retrieve the public key of the device. The server may generate a data payload as a response to the query. The server may encrypt the data payload by a symmetric key that is generated randomly. The server may encrypt the symmetric key by the public key of the device. The server may transmit the data payload and the symmetric key that are encrypted to the device for the device to use a private key corresponding to the public key to decrypt the symmetric key and use the symmetric key to decrypt the data payload.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: ValiMail Inc.
    Inventor: Ashley Duane Wilson
  • Patent number: 11606198
    Abstract: Embodiments relate to systems for distribution of cryptographic keys generated with high quality entropy on to new or configurable devices using a centralized entropy provider located at a server and a provisioning device that communicates between the server and the configurable devices. The server may receive a request from a provisioning device for a cryptographic keypair. For example, the provisioning device may be physically connected to a configurable device for bootstrapping and requests the identity keys to install on to the configurable device. The server generates the cryptographic keypair having newly generated public and private keys for the configurable device. The server encrypts the newly generated keypair (e.g., in the form of a private key and a certificate having the public key) using the public key of the provisioning device and transmits the encrypted keypair to the provisioning device for decryption and installation on to the configurable device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: ValiMail Inc.
    Inventor: Ashley Duane Wilson
  • Patent number: 11582263
    Abstract: A DNS server receives from a receiving email system, a DNS query for an email domain stored at the DNS server, the DNS query including identifying information of a sender of an email. The DNS server extracts the identifying information of the email sender from the DNS query and identifies one of a plurality of delivering organizations from the information. The DNS server determines whether the identified delivering organization is authorized to deliver email on behalf of the email domain. In response to determining that the identified delivering organization is authorized to deliver email on behalf of the email domain, the DNS server generates a target validation record based on the identity of the authorized delivering organization and the email domain, the target validation record including one or more rules indicating to the receiving email system whether the delivering organization is an authorized sender of email for the email domain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: ValiMail Inc.
    Inventor: Peter Martin Goldstein
  • Patent number: 11431756
    Abstract: A DNS server receives from a receiving email system, a DNS query for an email domain stored at the DNS server, the DNS query including identifying information of a sender of an email. The DNS server extracts the identifying information of the email sender from the DNS query and identifies one of a plurality of delivering organizations from the information. The DNS server determines whether the identified delivering organization is authorized to deliver email on behalf of the email domain. In response to determining that the identified delivering organization is authorized to deliver email on behalf of the email domain, the DNS server generates a target validation record based on the identity of the authorized delivering organization and the email domain, the target validation record including one or more rules indicating to the receiving email system whether the delivering organization is an authorized sender of email for the email domain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: ValiMail Inc.
    Inventor: Peter Martin Goldstein
  • Patent number: 11368494
    Abstract: A DNS server receives from a receiving email system, a DNS query for an email domain stored at the DNS server, the DNS query including identifying information of a sender of an email. The DNS server extracts the identifying information of the email sender from the DNS query and identifies one of a plurality of delivering organizations from the information. The DNS server determines whether the identified delivering organization is authorized to deliver email on behalf of the email domain. In response to determining that the identified delivering organization is authorized to deliver email on behalf of the email domain, the DNS server generates a target validation record based on the identity of the authorized delivering organization and the email domain, the target validation record including one or more rules indicating to the receiving email system whether the delivering organization is an authorized sender of email for the email domain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: ValiMail Inc.
    Inventor: Peter Martin Goldstein
  • Patent number: 11329997
    Abstract: A delivering email system is configured to receive a request to send an email to a recipient, identify an authentication method of a sender account for the email, modify email headers of the email to include an indication of the authentication method, generate digital signatures for the email that include the email headers within a scope of the digital signatures, modify the email such that an email header of the email includes the digital signatures, and transmit the email, including the indication of the authentication method and the digital signatures, to the recipient at a receiving email system. The receiving email system is configured to receive the email, determine that the email headers are unaltered by validating the digital signatures against a public key of the sender domain, determine whether the authentication method indicated meets a criteria, and execute a security response against the email if not.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: ValiMail Inc.
    Inventor: Peter Martin Goldstein
  • Patent number: 11258759
    Abstract: An email validation system receives an email validation request from a requestor to validate an email, the email validation request indicating at least a sender domain indicating a domain of the sender of the email. The email validation system determines whether the sender domain is in a whitelist of known domains, wherein a known domain is a domain that is linked to an organization whose provenance is known, such that it can be linked to an identifiable entity in the real world. The email validation system generates, in response to determining that the sender domain is not in the list of known domains, a message indicating that the email is not valid. The email validation system generates, in response to determining that the sender domain is in the list of known domains, the message indicating that the email is valid, and transmits the message to the requestor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: ValiMail Inc.
    Inventor: Peter Martin Goldstein
  • Patent number: 11171939
    Abstract: A third-party server, delegated by organizations to manage application environment, may maintain a plurality of guided workflow plans. At least one of the guided workflow plans may include one or more steps associated with setting up an interaction control policy. The third-party server may receive an interaction report associated with the organization. The interaction report may include metadata of one or more devices that interacted with other devices. The third-party server may identify a particular device to which existing interaction control policies of the organization are inapplicable. The third-party server may search for additional out-of-band information of the particular device using the metadata in the interaction report. The third-party server may select an applicable guided workflow plan for setting up an applicable interaction control policy for the particular device. A guided workflow may be presented via a graphical user interface according to the applicable guided workflow plan.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: ValiMail Inc.
    Inventors: Seth Joshua Blank, Ashley Duane Wilson, Peter Martin Goldstein, Jack William Abbott, Robert Benjamin Barclay
  • Patent number: 11063763
    Abstract: Embodiments relate to a system that may include a third-party server and a domain name system (DNS). The third-party server may be configured to receive a request for a session token from a named entity device for the named entity device to communicate with an application programming interface (API). The API may be associated with a domain. The third-party server may obtain the session token from the API. The third-party server may encrypt the session token with a public key corresponding to the named entity device to generate an encrypted session token. The DNS may be configured to receive the encrypted session token and publish a DNS record at a namespace of the DNS, the DNS record containing the encrypted session token for the named entity device to retrieve the session token. The named entity device may decrypt the encrypted session token by the private key stored at the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: ValiMail Inc.
    Inventors: Ashley Duane Wilson, Peter Martin Goldstein
  • Patent number: 11057437
    Abstract: A DNS server receives from a receiving email system, a DNS query for an email domain stored at the DNS server, the DNS query including identifying information of a sender of an email. The DNS server extracts the identifying information of the email sender from the DNS query and identifies one of a plurality of delivering organizations from the information. The DNS server determines whether the identified delivering organization is authorized to deliver email on behalf of the email domain. In response to determining that the identified delivering organization is authorized to deliver email on behalf of the email domain, the DNS server generates a target validation record based on the identity of the authorized delivering organization and the email domain, the target validation record including one or more rules indicating to the receiving email system whether the delivering organization is an authorized sender of email for the email domain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: ValiMail Inc.
    Inventor: Peter Martin Goldstein
  • Patent number: 11038897
    Abstract: A third-party server may maintain a list of named entity devices that belong to one or more roles in an application environment. The server may receive an authorization query from a policy consuming device. The authorization query may include an identity of a particular named entity device which sent a message to the policy consuming device and contextual metadata associated with the message. The server may determine that the particular named entity device belongs to one of the roles and filter the list based on the contextual metadata. The server may generate an interaction control list that includes the filtered list and transmit the interaction control list to the policy consuming device as a response to the authorization query. The interaction control list causes the policy consuming device to react to the message based on the interaction control list.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignee: ValiMail Inc.
    Inventors: Ashley Duane Wilson, Seth Joshua Blank, Peter Martin Goldstein
  • Patent number: 10897485
    Abstract: A DNS server receives from a receiving email system, a DNS query for an email domain stored at the DNS server, the DNS query including identifying information of a sender of an email. The DNS server extracts the identifying information of the email sender from the DNS query and identifies one of a plurality of delivering organizations from the information. The DNS server determines whether the identified delivering organization is authorized to deliver email on behalf of the email domain. In response to determining that the identified delivering organization is authorized to deliver email on behalf of the email domain, the DNS server generates a target validation record based on the identity of the authorized delivering organization and the email domain, the target validation record including one or more rules indicating to the receiving email system whether the delivering organization is an authorized sender of email for the email domain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2021
    Assignee: ValiMail Inc.
    Inventor: Peter Martin Goldstein
  • Patent number: 10257231
    Abstract: A DNS server receives from a receiving email system, a DNS query for an email domain stored at the DNS server, the DNS query including identifying information of a sender of an email. The DNS server extracts the identifying information of the email sender from the DNS query and identifies one of a plurality of delivering organizations from the information. The DNS server determines whether the identified delivering organization is authorized to deliver email on behalf of the email domain. In response to determining that the identified delivering organization is authorized to deliver email on behalf of the email domain, the DNS server generates a target validation record based on the identity of the authorized delivering organization and the email domain, the target validation record including one or more rules indicating to the receiving email system whether the delivering organization is an authorized sender of email for the email domain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2019
    Assignee: VALIMAIL INC.
    Inventor: Peter Martin Goldstein
  • Patent number: 10122765
    Abstract: A DNS server receives from a receiving email system, a DNS query for an email domain stored at the DNS server, the DNS query including identifying information of a sender of an email. The DNS server extracts the identifying information of the email sender from the DNS query and identifies one of a plurality of delivering organizations from the information. The DNS server determines whether the identified delivering organization is authorized to deliver email on behalf of the email domain. In response to determining that the identified delivering organization is authorized to deliver email on behalf of the email domain, the DNS server generates a target validation record based on the identity of the authorized delivering organization and the email domain, the target validation record including one or more rules indicating to the receiving email system whether the delivering organization is an authorized sender of email for the email domain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignee: ValiMail Inc.
    Inventor: Peter Martin Goldstein
  • Patent number: 9800402
    Abstract: A third party system generates a public-private key pair, the public key of the key pair being an encryption key, and the private key of the key pair being a decryption key. The third party system publishes the encryption key as a DNS record of a third party system. The third party system receives a request to sign a message on behalf of a domain owner, the message to be sent to a recipient, and accesses an encrypted delegated private key published by the domain owner via a DNS record of the domain owner, the encrypted delegated private key encrypted using the encryption key. The third party system decrypts the encrypted delegated private key using the decryption key, and generates a signature for the message using the delegated private key. The third party system sends the signature and the message to the recipient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2017
    Assignee: VALIMAIL INC.
    Inventor: Peter Martin Goldstein