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).

  • Patent number: 10965667
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: David Steeves, Luke Abrams, Hersh Dangayach, Eric Fleischman, Prabu Raju, Krishna Vitaldevara, Niyantha Shekar, Payoj Baral, Meenakshi Ramaswamy, Winfred Wong, Yordan Rouskov, Ramesh Manne
  • Publication number: 20200112556
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2019
    Publication date: April 9, 2020
    Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: David Steeves, Luke Abrams, Hersh Dangayach, Eric Fleischman, Prabu Raju, Krishna Vitaldevara, Niyantha Shekar, Payoj Baral, Meenakshi Ramaswamy, Winfred Wong, Yordan Rouskov, Ramesh Manne
  • Patent number: 10505926
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: David Steeves, Luke Abrams, Hersh Dangayach, Eric Fleischman, Prabu Raju, Krishna Vitaldevara, Niyantha Shekar, Payoj Baral, Meenakshi Ramaswamy, Winfred Wong, Yordan Rouskov, Ramesh Manne
  • Publication number: 20180332026
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2018
    Publication date: November 15, 2018
    Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: David Steeves, Luke Abrams, Hersh Dangayach, Eric Fleischman, Prabu Raju, Krishna Vitaldevara, Niyantha Shekar, Payoj Baral, Meenakshi Ramaswamy, Winfred Wong, Yordan Rouskov, Ramesh Manne
  • Patent number: 10033731
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: David Steeves, Luke Abrams, Hersh Dangayach, Eric Fleischman, Prabu Raju, Krishna Vitaldevara, Niyantha Shekar, Payoj Baral, Meenakshi Ramaswamy, Winfred Wong, Yordan Rouskov, Ramesh Manne
  • Publication number: 20170331811
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2017
    Publication date: November 16, 2017
    Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: David Steeves, Luke Abrams, Hersh Dangayach, Eric Fleischman, Prabu Raju, Krishna Vitaldevara, Niyantha Shekar, Payoj Baral, Meenakshi Ramaswamy, Winfred Wong, Yordan Rouskov, Ramesh Manne
  • Patent number: 9779236
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: 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
  • Patent number: 9749313
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2017
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: David Steeves, Luke Abrams, Hersh Dangayach, Eric Fleischman, Prabu Raju, Krishna Vitaldevara, Niyantha Shekar, Payoj Baral, Meenakshi Ramaswamy, Winfred Wong, Yordan Rouskov, Ramesh Manne
  • Publication number: 20160300059
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2016
    Publication date: October 13, 2016
    Inventors: 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
  • Patent number: 9396332
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2016
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: 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
  • Patent number: 9338112
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2016
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Aby John, Luke Abrams, Ryan Burkhardt, Krishna Vitaldevara
  • Publication number: 20160021095
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2015
    Publication date: January 21, 2016
    Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: David Steeves, Luke Abrams, Hersh Dangayach, Eric Fleischman, Prabu Raju, Krishna Vitaldevara, Niyantha Shekar, Payoj Baral, Meenakshi Ramaswamy, Winfred Wong, Yordan Rouskov, Ramesh Manne
  • Publication number: 20150339477
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2014
    Publication date: November 26, 2015
    Inventors: 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
  • Patent number: 9177125
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2015
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: David Steeves, Luke Abrams, Hersh Dangayach, Eric Fleischman, Prabu Raju, Krishna Vitaldevara, Niyantha Shekar, Payoj Baral, Meenakshi Ramaswamy, Winfred Wong, Yordan Rouskov, Ramesh Manne
  • Publication number: 20140020108
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2012
    Publication date: January 16, 2014
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Aby John, Luke Abrams, Ryan Burkhardt, Krishna Vitaldevara
  • Publication number: 20120304260
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2011
    Publication date: November 29, 2012
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: David Steeves, Luke Abrams, Hersh Dangayach, Eric Fleischman, Prabu Raju, Krishna Vitaldevara, Niyantha Shekar, Payoj Baral, Meenakshi Ramaswamy, Winfred Wong, Yordan Rouskov, Ramesh Manne
  • Publication number: 20070277248
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2006
    Publication date: November 29, 2007
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Sachin K. Agrawal, Trevor Foucher, Wesley O. Pereira, Erik Mavrinac, Luke Abrams