Patents by Inventor Benjamin S. Kirzhner

Benjamin S. Kirzhner has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 9178866
    Abstract: Techniques for user authentication are disclosed. In some situations, the techniques include receiving, from a client device, an authentication request to access a network resource, the request including a user identifier, obtaining a security credential associated with the user identifier contained in the received request, generating an authorization code based on the obtained security credential, providing to the client device instructions to obtain first information corresponding to the generated authorization code, receiving, from the client device, the first information provided in response to the provided instructions, and, when the first information received from the client device corresponds to at least a portion of the generated authorization code, authorizing the client device to access the network resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2015
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Dominique I. Brezinski, Benjamin S. Kirzhner, Emilia S. Buneci, Martin M. O'Reilly, Cyrus J. Durgin, Lane R. LaRue
  • Publication number: 20150089616
    Abstract: Techniques for user authentication are disclosed. In some situations, the techniques include receiving, from a client device, an authentication request to access a network resource, the request including a user identifier, obtaining a security credential associated with the user identifier contained in the received request, generating an authorization code based on the obtained security credential, providing to the client device instructions to obtain first information corresponding to the generated authorization code, receiving, from the client device, the first information provided in response to the provided instructions, and, when the first information received from the client device corresponds to at least a portion of the generated authorization code, authorizing the client device to access the network resource.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2014
    Publication date: March 26, 2015
    Inventors: Dominique I. Brezinski, Benjamin S. Kirzhner, Emilia S. Buneci, Martin M. O'Reilly, Cyrus J. Durgin, Lane R. LaRue
  • Patent number: 8925062
    Abstract: Techniques for user authentication are disclosed. In some situations, the techniques include receiving, from a client device, an authentication request to access a network resource, the request including a user identifier, obtaining a security credential associated with the user identifier contained in the received request, generating an authorization code based on the obtained security credential, providing to the client device instructions to obtain first information corresponding to the generated authorization code, receiving, from the client device, the first information provided in response to the provided instructions, and, when the first information received from the client device corresponds to at least a portion of the generated authorization code, authorizing the client device to access the network resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2014
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Dominique I. Brezinski, Benjamin S. Kirzhner, Emilia S. Buneci, Martin M. O'Reilly, Cyrus J. Durgin, Lane R. LaRue
  • Patent number: 8676795
    Abstract: A plurality of phrases may be extracted from documents associated with one or more document sources. The plurality of phrases may be filtered and processed to determine a frequency in which the plurality of phrases appear in the documents and/or a number of the document sources in which each phrase appears. A weight may be assigned to each of the phrases and, based at least in part on the assigned weight, a visual representation of the plurality of phrases may be presented. The visual representation may be dynamically updated based at least in part on an updated frequency or an updated total number of document sources associated with any one of the plurality of phrases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2014
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Cyrus J. Durgin, George N. Stathakopoulos, Dominique I. Brezinski, Emilia S. Buneci, Martin M. O'Reilly, Lane R. LaRue, Benjamin S. Kirzhner
  • Patent number: 8613066
    Abstract: Techniques for user authentication are disclosed. In some situations, the techniques include receiving, from a client device, an authentication request to access a network resource, the request including a user identifier, obtaining a security credential associated with the user identifier contained in the received request, generating an authorization code based on the obtained security credential, providing to the client device instructions to obtain first information corresponding to the generated authorization code, receiving, from the client device, the first information provided in response to the provided instructions, and, when the first information received from the client device corresponds to at least a portion of the generated authorization code, authorizing the client device to access the network resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2013
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Dominique I. Brezinski, Benjamin S. Kirzhner, Emilia S. Buneci, Martin M. O'Reilly, Cyrus J. Durgin, Lane R. LaRue