Patents Examined by Yogesh Paliwal
  • Patent number: 11687628
    Abstract: A system and method for performing a verification process of media content comprising, for example, receiving, via a digital vault, identification information from a non-fungible token (NFT) creator user or owner user of an NFT, wherein the NFT creator user initiates a minting process that creates the NFT for exchange on an NFT marketplace of the digital vault, and wherein the NFT is associated with a container file comprising media content submitted by a first user; verifying, via the digital vault, the identification information from the NFT creator user by comparing the identification information with stored user information at the digital vault; transmitting, via the digital vault, a confirmation code to the NFT creator user; and upon receiving the confirmation code, providing diligence information during a verification process to an NFT collector user in the NFT marketplace of the digital vault in verifying authenticity of the NFT creator user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: TUNEGO, INC.
    Inventors: Mark Goldston, Stacy Haitsuka, John Kohl, Ofek Hayon, Harold MacKenzie
  • Patent number: 11683189
    Abstract: With the popularity of Blockchain comes grave security-related concerns. Achieving privacy and traceability simultaneously remains an open question. Efforts have been made to address the issues, while they may subject to specific scenarios. The present disclosure proposes a method, a system, and a device for maintaining privacy and traceability of a Blockchain-based system. The method includes: registering in a Blockchain-based system; transmitting a message from a transmitter T to a receiver R via an anonymous network, after a registration request of the transmitter T has been approved and storing message transmission data generated during a message transmission process in a Blockchain; and performing an identity disclosure by using the message transmission data when the message is detected to be false. The anonymous network may transmit the message by onion routing. The solution proposed by the present disclosure can achieve traceability and privacy for a Blockchain-based system simultaneously.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: Jinan University
    Inventors: Jian Weng, Yue Zhang, Jiasi Weng, Ming Li, Weiqi Luo
  • Patent number: 11671452
    Abstract: A system and method for cryptographically securing data communications between a group of networked devices establishes and maintains an overlay network at the Application Layer, on top of a unicast routing service provided at the Internetworking Layer. The overlay network provides first, the routes that are used to deliver multicast datagrams and second, the cryptographic keys used to secure multicast datagrams. A common cryptographic key is established between all members of each group, and end-to-end encryption ensures that multicast datagrams can be accessed only by authorized group members. In other embodiments, keys are established between pairs of adjacent devices in the overlay network, and hop-by-hop encryption ensures that multicast datagrams can be accessed only by overlay network members.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: CALIOLA ENGINEERING, LLC
    Inventor: Thomas R. Halford
  • Patent number: 11665536
    Abstract: An information handling system includes a wireless management controller having a first wireless network interface used to establish a secure short-range wireless network connection between a management controller and a mobile device. A second wireless network interface establishes a peer-to-peer wireless network connection between the management controller and the mobile device. The management controller stores a secure shell public key received from the mobile device through the secure short-range wireless network connection. The management controller randomly identifies a port number for the peer-to-peer wireless network connection, and disables network traffic through other ports associated with the peer-to-peer wireless network connection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: George Francis Ramsay, III, Saurabh Kishore, Arulnambi Raju, Dung K. Le
  • Patent number: 11664258
    Abstract: Disclosed is a physical unclonable function generator circuit and method. In one embodiment, a physical unclonable function (PUF) generator comprising: a plurality of PUF cells, wherein each of the plurality of PUF cells comprises a first MOS transistor and a second MOS transistor, wherein terminal S of the first MOS transistor is connected to terminal D of the second MOS transistor at a dynamic node, terminal D of the first MOS transistor is coupled to a first bus and terminal G of the first NMOS transistor is coupled to a second bus, and terminals S and G of the second NMOS transistor are coupled to ground; a plurality of dynamic flip-flop (DFF) circuits wherein each of the plurality of DFF circuits is coupled to each of the plurality of PUF cells respectively; a population count circuit coupled to the plurality of DFF circuits; and an evaluation logic circuit having an input coupled to the population count circuit and an output coupled to the plurality of DFF circuits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shih-Lien Linus Lu, Cormac Michael O'Connell
  • Patent number: 11651100
    Abstract: A system, device and method for enforcing privacy during a communication session with a voice assistant are disclosed. Periodically during the communication session with the voice assistant, sensor data is acquired. The sensor data is processed to determine a number of persons present in an environment of the voice assistant. The communication of private data by the voice assistant is enabled when one person is in the environment and that person is the authorized user. The communication of private data by the voice assistant is disabled when one person is in the environment and that person is not the authorized user. When more than one person is present in the environment of the voice assistant, the communication of private data by the voice assistant may be enabled when the environment of the voice assistant is determined to match the one or more predetermined privacy criteria for a multi-person environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: The Toronto-Dominion Bank
    Inventors: Milos Dunjic, David Samuel Tax, Arthur Carroll Chow, Peter Glen Nairn, Edward James Hood, Martin Albert Lozon, John Jong-Suk Lee, Arun Victor Jagga
  • Patent number: 11647005
    Abstract: Embodiments described include systems and methods for management and pre-establishment of network application and secure communication sessions. Session logs may be analyzed to identify an application or secure communication sessions likely to be accessed, and prior to receiving a request to establish the session, an intermediary (e.g. another device such as an intermediary appliance or other device, or an intermediary agent on a client such as a client application) may pre-establish the session, performing any necessary handshaking or credential or key exchange processes. When the session is subsequently requested (e.g. in response to a user request), the system may immediately begin using the pre-established session. This pre-establishment may be coordinated within the enterprise providing load balancing and scheduling of session establishment to prevent large processing loads at any one point in time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Inventors: Abhishek Chauhan, Karthick Srivatsan, J Mohan Rao Arisankala, Chaitra Maraliga Ramaiah
  • Patent number: 11641332
    Abstract: Methods and systems for authenticating and confidence marking e-mail messages are described. One embodiment describes a method of authenticating an e-mail message. This method involves extracting a plurality of e-mail headers associated with the e-mail message, and identifying a sending edge mail transfer agent (MTA). The method then calls for determining if the sending edge MTA is authorized to send the e-mail message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2023
    Assignee: Iconix, Inc.
    Inventor: Scott A. Sachtjen
  • Patent number: 11637704
    Abstract: Various embodiments provide a method and an apparatus for determining a trust status of a TPM, and a storage medium, and pertains to the field of data security technologies. In those embodiments, a verifier send an unsealing request to a host, so that the host unseals current PCR values in the TPM based on a seal key handle carried in the unsealing request, and sends verification information to the verifier based on the unseal verification key obtained after the unsealing. Therefore, any verifier that establishes an encrypted channel with the host can determine the trust status of the TPM in the host based on a second verification key transmitted on the encrypted channel, and there is no need to pre-deploy a remote attestation server to determine the trust status of the TPM.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Fanglong Men, Honglei Wang, Fangzhan Li
  • Patent number: 11632241
    Abstract: According to an aspect of the present disclosure, a method performed by a verification platform for authorising a user incapable of providing digital consent comprises: receiving sensitive user information and a unique supervisor identifier; encrypting the sensitive user information using an encryption scheme with an associated encryption key to generate encrypted user information; sending an authorisation request message to a supervisor device associated with the unique supervisor identifier, wherein the authorisation request message comprises the encryption key and a request for authorisation in response; discarding the sensitive user information and the encryption key, such that the verification platform cannot access the sensitive user information; and, if the verification platform receives an authorisation response message from the supervisor device comprising a received encryption key, decrypting the encrypted user information using the received encryption key, such that the verification platform can su
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: Epic Games, Inc.
    Inventor: Michael Benjamin Hutchinson
  • Patent number: 11615386
    Abstract: Techniques provided herein relate to registering secondary authentication information with a blockchain. A block chain is stored, having primary authentication information, secondary authentication information, or both that is used in authenticating one or more electronic data action requests provided by a client system to a backend system. The client system, a secondary device, or both registers the secondary device with blockchain node, such that secondary device data is stored as the primary authentication information, the secondary authentication information, or both in the blockchain node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: United Services Automobile Association (USAA)
    Inventors: Bharat Prasad, Charles Lee Oakes, III, Gunjan C. Vijayvergia, Vijay Jayapalan, Thomas Bret Buckingham
  • Patent number: 11610024
    Abstract: The disclosed computer-implemented method for protecting search privacy may include (i) receiving, via a search interface, a search query comprising at least one search term, (ii) determining a sensitivity level of the search query based on the at least one search term, (iii) directing the search query to a search engine that has a level of privacy correlated with the sensitivity level of the search query, and (iv) returning, via the search interface, at least one result of directing the search query to the search engine that has the level of privacy correlated with the sensitivity level of the search query. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: Gen Digital Inc.
    Inventors: Susanta Nanda, Kevin Roundy, Ashwin Kayyoor
  • Patent number: 11606370
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are systems and methods executing a security server that perform various processes using alert elements containing various data fields indicating threats of fraud or attempts to penetrate an enterprise network. Using alert elements, the security server generate integrated alerts that are associated with customers of the system and assign a risk score for the integrated alerts, which the security server uses to store and sort the integrated alerts according to a priority, based on the relative risk scores. Analyst computers may query and fetch integrated alerts from an integrate alert database, and then present the integrate alerts to be addressed by an analyst according to the priority level of the respective integrated alerts. This allows to ensure that the right customer, is worked by the right analyst, at the right time, to maximize fraud prevention and minimize customer impact.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: United Services Automobile Association (USAA)
    Inventors: Jansey Comeaux, Michael Scott McQuarrie, Gregory Sansone, Veronica Santiago
  • Patent number: 11604858
    Abstract: A system and method for media content management include creating, via a digital vault, a container file comprising media content submitted by a first user and content metadata; verifying, via the digital vault, a completeness of the content metadata associated with the media content in the container file; classifying, via the digital vault, the container file based on the completeness of the media content; capturing, via the digital vault, event metadata when a second user gains access to the container file, the event metadata comprising at least one of identification of the second user, an activation timestamp, a duration of access, portions of the container file accessed, and changes to the container file; and enabling a private communication channel between parties affiliated with the media content to permit messaging among the parties affiliated with the media content via the private communication channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: TuneGo, Inc.
    Inventors: Mark Goldston, Stacy Haitsuka, John Kohl, Ofek Hayon, Harold MacKenzie
  • Patent number: 11586758
    Abstract: An authorization method based on form data gotten by a role is disclosed in the present invention, including: selecting one or more grantees; selecting a form, and displaying an authorized field used for searching form data; displaying all roles in a system, defining a role that needs to be used for searching form data as a target role, and selecting a target object for each target role respectively, where the target object is a current object, a historical object, or all objects; defining a target role and a user or an employee in its target object as a limited value; for each target role of each authorized field, respectively getting a set of form data, any limited value of the target role of which is included by a field value of the authorized field in the form, and authorizing an operation permission to the set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: CHENGDU QIANNIUCAO INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Dazhi Chen
  • Patent number: 11568079
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and devices for generating a secure join of database data are disclosed. A method creates a secure view of datapoints of a consumer account and processes, using a secure user defined function (UDF), the datapoints of the consumer account and datapoints of a provider account to generate a secure join key. The secure UDF returns a count of matching data points between the consumer account and the provider account, and the method provides the count of matching data points to the consumer account.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: Snowflake Inc.
    Inventors: Justin Langseth, Matthew J. Glickman, Christian Kleinerman, Robert Muglia, Daniel Freundel, Thierry Cruanes, Allison Waingold Lee
  • Patent number: 11570170
    Abstract: Systems are disclosed for embedding group-based communication system content into an integrated application. A request for interactive embeddable content includes a unique identifier and an authentication token associated with a user of an integrated application. If the authentication token is valid, authorization information is provided to the integrated application. An interaction with the embeddable content is received from the user, and the group-based communication system is updated based on the interaction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: Slack Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: Mark Christian
  • Patent number: 11562051
    Abstract: A computing device supports the use of multiple different authenticators for a user to unlock his or her computing device and access his or her user account. An authenticator refers to something that the user knows or has that can be compared to known authentication data in order to authenticate the user. In one or more embodiments, the behavior of the computing device varies for different authenticators by displaying user-selectable content in different visibility modes based on which authenticator is used to authenticate the user. In one content visibility mode content is fully visible on the computing device display screen, whereas in another content visibility mode content visibility on the computing device display screen is reduced. Additionally or alternatively, the behavior of the computing device varies for different authenticators by using different authenticators for different contexts of the computing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: Motorola Mobility LLC
    Inventors: Rachid M. Alameh, Jarrett K. Simerson, John J. Gorsica, IV
  • Patent number: 11563562
    Abstract: The present system and method allow the exchange of messages, such as email, between a sender and a recipient while maintaining the data secure and the integrity of the content of the messages. The method and system do not require a user having an account to open a received message. The method comprises the server creating a new communication key upon reception of a request. The communication key is typically valid for a single request to ensure that each request is encrypted using different communication keys. The method typically comprises a client [A] establishing communication on [HANDSHAKE] with one or more servers [B]. The HANDSHAKE generally aims at initializing the encryption key that will be used to exchange information between A and B.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: SECURE EXCHANGES INC.
    Inventor: Cedric Boivin
  • Patent number: 11558419
    Abstract: A new approach is proposed to support autonomous similar and adjacent attack identification. First, an incident is created for a detected suspicious electronic message-borne attack at one user account with one tenant on an electronic communication platform. A plurality of insight events for similar or adjacent attacks are then generated automatically based on the detected attack and inserted into an insights queue. For each of the insight events in the insights queue, a search is conducted in a repository to identify a set of un-remediated attacks against user accounts of the same or different tenants on the electronic communication platform, wherein the set of un-remediated attacks are similar or adjacent to the detected attack. Insights on the identified un-remediated attacks against the user accounts in the same or different tenants that are similar or adjacent to the detected attack are automatically generated for an administrator and are remediated accordingly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: Barracuda Networks, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher B. Black, Grayson Carr, Jordan A. Petersen, Benjamin J. Hildebrand