Patents by Inventor Luke Abrams
Luke Abrams 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).
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Patent number: 10965667Abstract: In one embodiment, a user authentication server may use geo-location tracking to determine whether to present an enhanced identity challenge. A communication interface 180 may receive a user login attempt by a user and a current location of the user login attempt. A data storage 150 may store a user location profile of the user. A processor 120 may execute a comparison of the current location to the user location profile. The communication interface 180 may present the user with an enhanced identity challenge before allowing user access based on the comparison.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 2019Date of Patent: March 30, 2021Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: David Steeves, Luke Abrams, Hersh Dangayach, Eric Fleischman, Prabu Raju, Krishna Vitaldevara, Niyantha Shekar, Payoj Baral, Meenakshi Ramaswamy, Winfred Wong, Yordan Rouskov, Ramesh Manne
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Publication number: 20200112556Abstract: In one embodiment, a user authentication server may use geo-location tracking to determine whether to present an enhanced identity challenge. A communication interface 180 may receive a user login attempt by a user and a current location of the user login attempt. A data storage 150 may store a user location profile of the user. A processor 120 may execute a comparison of the current location to the user location profile. The communication interface 180 may present the user with an enhanced identity challenge before allowing user access based on the comparison.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 9, 2019Publication date: April 9, 2020Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: David Steeves, Luke Abrams, Hersh Dangayach, Eric Fleischman, Prabu Raju, Krishna Vitaldevara, Niyantha Shekar, Payoj Baral, Meenakshi Ramaswamy, Winfred Wong, Yordan Rouskov, Ramesh Manne
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Patent number: 10505926Abstract: In one embodiment, a user authentication server may use geo-location tracking to determine whether to present an enhanced identity challenge. A communication interface 180 may receive a user login attempt by a user and a current location of the user login attempt. A data storage 150 may store a user location profile of the user. A processor 120 may execute a comparison of the current location to the user location profile. The communication interface 180 may present the user with an enhanced identity challenge before allowing user access based on the comparison.Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 2018Date of Patent: December 10, 2019Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLCInventors: David Steeves, Luke Abrams, Hersh Dangayach, Eric Fleischman, Prabu Raju, Krishna Vitaldevara, Niyantha Shekar, Payoj Baral, Meenakshi Ramaswamy, Winfred Wong, Yordan Rouskov, Ramesh Manne
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Publication number: 20180332026Abstract: In one embodiment, a user authentication server may use geo-location tracking to determine whether to present an enhanced identity challenge. A communication interface 180 may receive a user login attempt by a user and a current location of the user login attempt. A data storage 150 may store a user location profile of the user. A processor 120 may execute a comparison of the current location to the user location profile. The communication interface 180 may present the user with an enhanced identity challenge before allowing user access based on the comparison.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 20, 2018Publication date: November 15, 2018Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: David Steeves, Luke Abrams, Hersh Dangayach, Eric Fleischman, Prabu Raju, Krishna Vitaldevara, Niyantha Shekar, Payoj Baral, Meenakshi Ramaswamy, Winfred Wong, Yordan Rouskov, Ramesh Manne
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Patent number: 10033731Abstract: In one embodiment, a user authentication server may use geo-location tracking to determine whether to present an enhanced identity challenge. A communication interface 180 may receive a user login attempt by a user and a current location of the user login attempt. A data storage 150 may store a user location profile of the user. A processor 120 may execute a comparison of the current location to the user location profile. The communication interface 180 may present the user with an enhanced identity challenge before allowing user access based on the comparison.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2017Date of Patent: July 24, 2018Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLCInventors: David Steeves, Luke Abrams, Hersh Dangayach, Eric Fleischman, Prabu Raju, Krishna Vitaldevara, Niyantha Shekar, Payoj Baral, Meenakshi Ramaswamy, Winfred Wong, Yordan Rouskov, Ramesh Manne
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Publication number: 20170331811Abstract: In one embodiment, a user authentication server may use geo-location tracking to determine whether to present an enhanced identity challenge. A communication interface 180 may receive a user login attempt by a user and a current location of the user login attempt. A data storage 150 may store a user location profile of the user. A processor 120 may execute a comparison of the current location to the user location profile. The communication interface 180 may present the user with an enhanced identity challenge before allowing user access based on the comparison.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 31, 2017Publication date: November 16, 2017Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: David Steeves, Luke Abrams, Hersh Dangayach, Eric Fleischman, Prabu Raju, Krishna Vitaldevara, Niyantha Shekar, Payoj Baral, Meenakshi Ramaswamy, Winfred Wong, Yordan Rouskov, Ramesh Manne
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Patent number: 9779236Abstract: One or more techniques and/or systems are provided for risk assessment. Historical authentication data and/or compromised user account data may be evaluated to identify a set of authentication context properties associated with user authentication sessions and/or a set of malicious account context properties associated with compromised user accounts (e.g., properties indicative of whether a user recently visited a malicious site, created a fake social network profile, logged in from unknown locations, etc.). The set of authentication context properties and/or the set of malicious account context properties may be annotated to create an annotated context property training set that may be used to train a risk assessment machine learning model to generate a risk assessment model. The risk assessment model may be used to evaluate user context properties of a user account event to generate a risk analysis metric indicative of a likelihood the user account event is malicious or safe.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2016Date of Patent: October 3, 2017Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Luke Abrams, David J. Steeves, Robert Alexander Sim, Pui-Yin Winfred Wong, Harry Simon Katz, Aaron Small, Dana Scott Kaufman, Adrian Kreuziger, Mark A. Nikiel, Laurentiu Bogdan Cristofor, Alexa Lynn Keizur, Collin Tibbetts, Charles Hayden
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Patent number: 9749313Abstract: In one embodiment, a user authentication server may use geo-location tracking to determine whether to present an enhanced identity challenge. A communication interface 180 may receive a user login attempt by a user and a current location of the user login attempt. A data storage 150 may store a user location profile of the user. A processor 120 may execute a comparison of the current location to the user location profile. The communication interface 180 may present the user with an enhanced identity challenge before allowing user access based on the comparison.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2015Date of Patent: August 29, 2017Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLCInventors: David Steeves, Luke Abrams, Hersh Dangayach, Eric Fleischman, Prabu Raju, Krishna Vitaldevara, Niyantha Shekar, Payoj Baral, Meenakshi Ramaswamy, Winfred Wong, Yordan Rouskov, Ramesh Manne
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Publication number: 20160300059Abstract: One or more techniques and/or systems are provided for risk assessment. Historical authentication data and/or compromised user account data may be evaluated to identify a set of authentication context properties associated with user authentication sessions and/or a set of malicious account context properties associated with compromised user accounts (e.g., properties indicative of whether a user recently visited a malicious site, created a fake social network profile, logged in from unknown locations, etc.). The set of authentication context properties and/or the set of malicious account context properties may be annotated to create an annotated context property training set that may be used to train a risk assessment machine learning model to generate a risk assessment model. The risk assessment model may be used to evaluate user context properties of a user account event to generate a risk analysis metric indicative of a likelihood the user account event is malicious or safe.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 21, 2016Publication date: October 13, 2016Inventors: Luke Abrams, David J. Steeves, Robert Alexander Sim, Pui-Yin Winfred Wong, Harry Simon Katz, Aaron Small, Dana Scott Kaufman, Adrian Kreuziger, Mark A. Nikiel, Laurentiu Bogdan Cristofor, Alexa Lynn Keizur, Collin Tibbetts, Charles Hayden
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Patent number: 9396332Abstract: One or more techniques and/or systems are provided for risk assessment. Historical authentication data and/or compromised user account data may be evaluated to identify a set of authentication context properties associated with user authentication sessions and/or a set of malicious account context properties associated with compromised user accounts (e.g., properties indicative of whether a user recently visited a malicious site, created a fake social network profile, logged in from unknown locations, etc.). The set of authentication context properties and/or the set of malicious account context properties may be annotated to create an annotated context property training set that may be used to train a risk assessment machine learning model to generate a risk assessment model. The risk assessment model may be used to evaluate user context properties of a user account event to generate a risk analysis metric indicative of a likelihood the user account event is malicious or safe.Type: GrantFiled: May 21, 2014Date of Patent: July 19, 2016Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Luke Abrams, David J. Steeves, Robert Alexander Sim, Pui-Yin Winfred Wong, Harry Simon Katz, Aaron Small, Dana Scott Kaufman, Adrian Kreuziger, Mark A. Nikiel, Laurentiu Bogdan Cristofor, Alexa Lynn Keizur, Collin Tibbetts, Charles Hayden
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Patent number: 9338112Abstract: In one embodiment, a cloud service interface 112 or a device interface 124 may filter messages in a message synchronization between a message service account and a cloud service account. A cloud service interface 112 or a device interface 124 may associate a message service account 114 on a user messaging device 110 with a cloud service account 122. The cloud service interface 112 or a device interface 124 may execute a message synchronization between the cloud service account 122 and the message service account 114. The cloud service interface 112 or a device interface 124 may apply a message filter to the message synchronization.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2012Date of Patent: May 10, 2016Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Aby John, Luke Abrams, Ryan Burkhardt, Krishna Vitaldevara
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Publication number: 20160021095Abstract: In one embodiment, a user authentication server may use geo-location tracking to determine whether to present an enhanced identity challenge. A communication interface 180 may receive a user login attempt by a user and a current location of the user login attempt. A data storage 150 may store a user location profile of the user. A processor 120 may execute a comparison of the current location to the user location profile. The communication interface 180 may present the user with an enhanced identity challenge before allowing user access based on the comparison.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 30, 2015Publication date: January 21, 2016Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: David Steeves, Luke Abrams, Hersh Dangayach, Eric Fleischman, Prabu Raju, Krishna Vitaldevara, Niyantha Shekar, Payoj Baral, Meenakshi Ramaswamy, Winfred Wong, Yordan Rouskov, Ramesh Manne
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Publication number: 20150339477Abstract: One or more techniques and/or systems are provided for risk assessment. Historical authentication data and/or compromised user account data may be evaluated to identify a set of authentication context properties associated with user authentication sessions and/or a set of malicious account context properties associated with compromised user accounts (e.g., properties indicative of whether a user recently visited a malicious site, created a fake social network profile, logged in from unknown locations, etc.). The set of authentication context properties and/or the set of malicious account context properties may be annotated to create an annotated context property training set that may be used to train a risk assessment machine learning model to generate a risk assessment model. The risk assessment model may be used to evaluate user context properties of a user account event to generate a risk analysis metric indicative of a likelihood the user account event is malicious or safe.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 21, 2014Publication date: November 26, 2015Inventors: Luke Abrams, David J. Steeves, Robert Alexander Sim, Pui-Yin Winfred Wong, Harry Simon Katz, Aaron Small, Dana Scott Kaufman, Adrian Kreuziger, Mark A. Nikiel, Laurentiu Bogdan Cristofor, Alexa Lynn Keizur, Collin Tibbetts, Charles Hayden
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Patent number: 9177125Abstract: In one embodiment, a user authentication server may use geo-location tracking to determine whether to present an enhanced identity challenge. A communication interface 180 may receive a user login attempt by a user and a current location of the user login attempt. A data storage 150 may store a user location profile of the user. A processor 120 may execute a comparison of the current location to the user location profile. The communication interface 180 may present the user with an enhanced identity challenge before allowing user access based on the comparison.Type: GrantFiled: July 6, 2011Date of Patent: November 3, 2015Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: David Steeves, Luke Abrams, Hersh Dangayach, Eric Fleischman, Prabu Raju, Krishna Vitaldevara, Niyantha Shekar, Payoj Baral, Meenakshi Ramaswamy, Winfred Wong, Yordan Rouskov, Ramesh Manne
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Publication number: 20140020108Abstract: In one embodiment, a cloud service interface 112 or a device interface 124 may filter messages in a message synchronization between a message service account and a cloud service account. A cloud service interface 112 or a device interface 124 may associate a message service account 114 on a user messaging device 110 with a cloud service account 122. The cloud service interface 112 or a device interface 124 may execute a message synchronization between the cloud service account 122 and the message service account 114. The cloud service interface 112 or a device interface 124 may apply a message filter to the message synchronization.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 12, 2012Publication date: January 16, 2014Applicant: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Aby John, Luke Abrams, Ryan Burkhardt, Krishna Vitaldevara
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Publication number: 20120304260Abstract: In one embodiment, a user authentication server may use geo-location tracking to determine whether to present an enhanced identity challenge. A communication interface 180 may receive a user login attempt by a user and a current location of the user login attempt. A data storage 150 may store a user location profile of the user. A processor 120 may execute a comparison of the current location to the user location profile. The communication interface 180 may present the user with an enhanced identity challenge before allowing user access based on the comparison.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 6, 2011Publication date: November 29, 2012Applicant: Microsoft CorporationInventors: David Steeves, Luke Abrams, Hersh Dangayach, Eric Fleischman, Prabu Raju, Krishna Vitaldevara, Niyantha Shekar, Payoj Baral, Meenakshi Ramaswamy, Winfred Wong, Yordan Rouskov, Ramesh Manne
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Publication number: 20070277248Abstract: Techniques to install an application module and a temporary certificate are described. In an implementation, an application module is installed on a client device. When online access is available, a temporary certificate is obtained anonymously from a service provider to enable one or more online components of the application module for a predetermined amount of time. An input may also be received to communicate credentials of the user to obtain a permanent certification.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 25, 2006Publication date: November 29, 2007Applicant: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Sachin K. Agrawal, Trevor Foucher, Wesley O. Pereira, Erik Mavrinac, Luke Abrams