Patents Examined by Khalid M Almaghayreh
  • Patent number: 11403385
    Abstract: A meeting system includes an identification information acquirer that acquires a card ID, based on a user's operation of touching a reader with an ID card 5 for identifying the user, an authentication process operator that determines whether or not to grant an authentication of the user, based on the card ID acquired by the identification information acquirer, and a command process operator that issues a command for commanding an operation corresponding to a desired operation of the user, where the command is associated with the card ID corresponding to the user, if the authentication of the user is granted by the authentication process operator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Koji Sato, Hiroki Munetomo
  • Patent number: 11381969
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed that provide a secure wireless connection between two electronic devices. Techniques disclosed comprise: generating, on a server, a temporary code; registering, on a first device, the temporary code; sending, from the server to a second device, the temporary code; determining, on the first device, a first temporary credential based on the temporary code; determining, on the second device, a second temporary credential based on the temporary code; establishing, using the first and the second temporary credentials, a temporary connection between the first and the second devices; determining, on the second device, a secure credential; sending, from the second device to the first device, the secure credential via the temporary connection; and establishing, using the secure credential, a secure connection between the first and the second electronic devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: AXIS AB
    Inventors: John Rehn, Marcus Prebble
  • Patent number: 11356463
    Abstract: Methods and systems for detecting malicious processes. Methods described herein gather data regarding process locations and calculate one or more inequality indicators related to the process paths based on economic principles. Instances of inequality with respect to process paths may indicate a path is uncommon and therefore the associated binary is used for malicious purposes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: Rapid7, Inc.
    Inventors: Roy Hodgman, Oliver Keyes, Wah-Kwan Lin, Michael Scutt, Timothy Stiller
  • Patent number: 11349669
    Abstract: In one aspect, a computer system for vehicle configuration verification, and/or detecting unauthorized vehicle modification may be provided. In some exemplary embodiments, the computer system may include a processor and a non-transitory, tangible, computer-readable storage medium having instructions stored thereon that, in response to execution by the processor, cause the processor to perform operations including: (1) receiving a vehicle image, including a vehicle identifier and at least one software module; (2) calculating a configuration hash value of the at least one software module; generating a first data block including the configuration hash value, a first index value, the vehicle identifier, and a digital signature; (3) storing the first data block in a memory; and/or (4) transmitting the first data block to any number of network participants using a distributed network to facilitate vehicle software configuration verification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE COMPANY
    Inventors: Matthew Lewis Floyd, Leroy Luther Smith, Jr., Brittney Benzio, Nathan Barnard, Shannon Marie Lowry
  • Patent number: 11329805
    Abstract: A method for operating a first vehicle-side terminal is provided, wherein the first vehicle-side terminal determines at least one symmetric group key that is assigned to the group of terminals, encrypts the at least one symmetric group key with a public asymmetric individual key that is assigned to a second vehicle-side terminal or with a symmetric pair key that is assigned to the second vehicle-side terminal, transmits the encrypted symmetric group key in the direction of the second vehicle-side terminal, receives an encrypted message from the second vehicle-side terminal, and decrypts the encrypted message depending on the symmetric group key.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Christian Zimmermann, Norbert Bissmeyer
  • Patent number: 11323274
    Abstract: In an embodiment, a computing resource service provider provides a certificate management service that allows customers of the computing resource service provider to create, distribute, manage, and revoke digital certificates issued by private certificate authorities. In an embodiment, a private certificate authority hosted by the computing resource service provider is able to issue signed certificates to network entities within the customer enterprise. In an embodiment, the certificate management service provides a network-accessible application programming interface to the private certificate authority that allows applications to create and deploy private certificates programmatically. In an embodiment, the system provides the flexibility to create private certificates for applications that require custom certificate lifetimes or resource names.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Peter Zachary Bowen, Todd Lawrence Cignetti, Preston Anthony Elder, III, Brandonn Gorman, Ronald Andrew Hoskinson, Jonathan Kozolchyk, Kenneth Lawler, Marcel Andrew Levy, Kyle Benjamin Schultheiss, Sandeep Shantharaj, Param Sharma, Jose Maria Silveira Neto
  • Patent number: 11316895
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are systems and methods that may generate so-called “honey credentials” that are transmitted to a “phishing” website, and are then stored into a honey credential database. The honey credentials appear to be valid credentials, but whenever a bad actor attempts to access an enterprise using the honey credentials, security appliances the enterprise may update the records of the honey credential database to include one or more unique identifiers for each bad actor device that attempts to access the enterprise network using the honey credentials. A server may automatically query the honey credential database to identify other accounts that have been accessed by devices that used the honey credentials to access the enterprise. The server may then flag the accounts and restrict their functionality.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: United Services Automobile Association (USAA)
    Inventors: Jordan Wright, William Jennings Woodson, Justin Sommers Gray
  • Patent number: 11310220
    Abstract: A target device is associated with a source device. A system includes a target device that enters an association mode, obtains an identification code, and broadcasts the identification code. A source device receives the broadcast, obtains authorization to associate with the target device, and provides a message to an association server. The association server receives the message and associates the target device and the source device in response thereto.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: Spotify AB
    Inventors: Jimmy Wahlberg, Nicklas Söderlind
  • Patent number: 11281804
    Abstract: Various embodiments of apparatuses and methods for protecting data integrity in a content distribution network (“CDN”) are described. Code or data in one of the servers or instances of a CDN might sometimes become incorrect or corrupt. One corrupted server or instance can potentially impact a considerable portion of the CDN. To solve these and other problems, various embodiments of a CDN can designate one or more parameters, which are then identified in a request for content to another entity. In these embodiments, the CDN can generate an encoding of the expected values of the designated parameters. The CDN can then compare, in these embodiments, its encoding of the expected values to an encoding of the values received from the other entity in response to the request. The CDN can validate the content of the response, as well as the identity of the other entity, in some embodiments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Karthik Uthaman, Ronil Sudhir Mokashi
  • Patent number: 11277439
    Abstract: Systems and methods are described that mitigate and/or prevent distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attacks. In one implementation, a gateway include one or more processors that obtain network data from one or more entities associated with the gateway, provide the network data to a server, and obtain a set of entity identifiers from the server. The set of entity identifiers may be generated based on at least the network data. The one or more processors may further filter communications based on the set of entity identifiers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: Neustar, Inc.
    Inventor: Brian R. Knopf
  • Patent number: 11275835
    Abstract: Systems and methods for performing a repeat antivirus scan of a file are disclosed. A local database is saved on a mobile device, where each record is added to the database when the corresponding file is recognized as being non-malicious as a result of an antivirus scan. A short hash sum of the file is computed and the long hash sum of the file and information about the antivirus scan performed and corresponding to the first hash sum of the file are found in the aforementioned database. Using the long hash sum, a verdict on the file is requested from the cloud services. An antivirus scan of the file is performed, except when the verdict obtained is unchanged (as compared to the verdict contained in the information about the antivirus scan performed of the obtained record corresponding to the file), and no updating of the antivirus databases has occurred since the date of performing the antivirus scan.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: AO Kaspersky Lab
    Inventors: Victor V. Chebyshev, Dmitry N. Glavatskikh, Konstantin M. Filatov, Vladimir A. Kuskov
  • Patent number: 11258788
    Abstract: Disclosed embodiments relate to systems and methods for automatically detecting and addressing security risks in code segments. Techniques include identifying a request from a network identity for an action involving a target network resource, wherein the action requires a temporary access token. Techniques further include performing, based on a security policy, at least one of: storing the temporary access token separate from the network identity and providing the network identity with a customized replacement token having an attribute different from the temporary access token; or creating a customized replacement role for the network identity, the customized replacement role having associated permissions that are customized for the network identity based on the request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: CyberArk Software Ltd.
    Inventors: Omer Tsarfati, Asaf Hecht
  • Patent number: 11259181
    Abstract: One-time password (“OTP”) generation on a smartwatch is provided. OTP generation may include communication between an application on a smartwatch and an application on a smartphone. The request for an OTP may be received at the smartwatch. A biometric identifier may also be received at the smartwatch. The smartwatch application may communicate with the smartphone application. An OTP may be generated within a third-party library within the smartphone application. The generated OTP may be transmitted from the smartphone application to the smartwatch application. The OTP may be displayed on the smartwatch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: Bank of America Corporation
    Inventors: Trish Gillis, Patrick Burgess, Robert S. Mumma, Napangsiri Wanpen, Taylor Farris, Benjamin Blad
  • Patent number: 11245694
    Abstract: A user terminal apparatus may include a communication unit for communicating with a server; a memory in which applications are stored; and a processor for executing an application including a first logic which requires security processing, performing mutual verification with the server, controlling the communication unit such that a request for executing the first logic on the server is sent to the server, and when the execution result of the first logic is received from the server, proceeding with the execution of the application by using the received execution result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kyung-soo Kwag, Ji-hoon Kim
  • Patent number: 11233634
    Abstract: A computing system includes a network interface, a customer database, and a processing circuit. The processing circuit receives information indicative of a first purchase by a customer, establish an aspect of the first purchase as a network authentication credential for the customer, receive a first request to connect to the network from a customer device associated with the customer after completion of the first purchase, transmit a first query to the customer device prompting the customer to input information regarding the aspect of the first purchase, receive a customer-input response to the first query, authenticate the first request by determining that the customer-input response to the first query corresponds to the established aspect of the first purchase, and authorize connection of the customer device to the network based at least in part on the first request being authenticated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
    Inventors: Christopher P. Clausen, Jeffrey A. Cornman, David J. Dietrich, Jinee K. Ellis, Chirstopher P. Smith
  • Patent number: 11228567
    Abstract: An automated system comprising a processor and a database are described. The processor executes communication software reading: at least one image corresponding to an identifier of a blood product from a donor; and at least one database storing at least one communication from a receiver of the blood product. The communication software executed by the processor determines an intermediary from the identifier and contacts the intermediary to obtain contact information of the donor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: Oklahoma Blood Institute
    Inventors: John Brooks Armitage, Justin Ryan Redwine
  • Patent number: 11223485
    Abstract: A method for verifying a property of plaintext using ciphertext is disclosed. In an embodiment, a computing device may receive the ciphertext at a trusted execution environment (TEE) of the computing device. The TEE may decrypt the ciphertext to generate the plaintext using a private encryption key of an encryption key pair. The encryption key pair comprises a public encryption key and the private encryption key. The TEE may generate a digitally signed validation result by encrypting the validation result using a private signing key of a signing key pair. The signing key pair comprises a public signing key and the private signing key. The private key is retrieved from secure memory of the computing device, and the secure memory may only be accessible by the TEE. The computing device may then transmit the digitally signed validation result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Teng Wu, Yin Tan
  • Patent number: 11200317
    Abstract: There is provided a computer implemented method of vaccination of a computing device against infection by malicious code, comprising: obtaining a vaccination profile including vaccination artifact system calls indicative of a malicious code attempting to identify another instance of the malicious code executing on the computing device prior to the malicious code infecting the computing device, monitoring the computing device for an indication of execution of at least one of the vaccination artifact system calls by the malicious code, and providing a false response to the at least one of the vaccination artifact system calls for emulating an existing infection of the computing device by another instance of the malicious code according to the indication of execution of at least one of the plurality of vaccination artifact system calls, wherein the emulation of the existing infection prevents infection of the computing device by the malicious code.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignee: Minerva Labs Ltd.
    Inventors: Omri Moyal, Erez Breiman, Eduard Bobritsky
  • Patent number: 11184372
    Abstract: Systems and methods are described for mitigation of time-delay based network attacks that seek to avoid detection by email security solutions employing sandboxing. According to one embodiment, a potentially malicious link associated with a communication is received from a computer system by a sandbox device. A link evasion technique, in which a first file to which the potentially malicious link points to at a first time is replaced with a second file on or before a second time, is subverted by the sandbox by evaluating the potentially malicious link at multiple times including generating a first hash value of the contents of the first file, generating a second hash value of the contents of the second file, assigning a threat level to the communication when the hash values differ, and informing the computer system of the threat level assigned to the communication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: Fortinet, Inc.
    Inventor: J. Dennis Bergström
  • Patent number: 11177948
    Abstract: Method and apparatus for a system to communicate via perfect forward secrecy. A deterministic hierarchy is used to generate public and private keys, offline, on distinct devices, for use with asymmetrical cryptography over an unsecure medium. Because each private key is not transmitted over the unsecure medium, but must be used to de-encrypt the communications, it is very difficult for man-in-the-middle attacks to de-encrypt the communications. Because each private key is generated according to a deterministic hierarchy, a master entity can recreate the private keys and passively monitor the communications while maintaining perfect forward secrecy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: Bank of America Corporation
    Inventors: Amanda Jane Adams, Ben Lightowler