Patents by Inventor Sunpreet Singh Arora

Sunpreet Singh Arora 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).

  • Publication number: 20240171410
    Abstract: A method is disclosed. The method comprises receiving, from a server computer, a challenge, and displaying objects from an object list to a user. The method includes determining that a user has visually selected an object from the object list and moving the selected object on a display according to screen coordinates. A client computer captures a biometric of the user, and compares the biometric to another biometric stored in the client computer to provide a first comparison output, and compares a derivative of the selected object to a derivative of an object stored in the client computer to produce a second comparison output. The client computer signs the challenge with a private key and sends the signed challenge to the server computer, and the server computer verifies the signed challenge.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2022
    Publication date: May 23, 2024
    Applicant: Visa International Service Association
    Inventors: Sunpreet Singh Arora, William Leddy, Shengfei Gu, Minghua Xu
  • Patent number: 11978299
    Abstract: Provided is a computer-implemented method for authenticating an identification document. The method includes determining, with at least one processor, whether image data associated with the identification document has at least one predetermined indicia. In response to determining that the image data has the at least one predetermined indicia, the method includes determining whether the at least one predetermined indicia corresponds to at least one invalidation mark on the identification document, and, in response to determining that the at least one predetermined indicia corresponds to the at least one invalidation mark, determining, that the identification document is invalid. In response to determining that the identification document is invalid, the method includes preventing or causing the prevention of at least one action from being performed. A system and computer program product for authenticating identification documents are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Visa International Service Association
    Inventors: Sunpreet Singh Arora, Kim R. Wagner
  • Patent number: 11956359
    Abstract: A method is disclosed. The method includes receiving, by a processing network computer from a relying party computer associated with a relying party, a request for data associated with a user operating a user device. The processing network computer may retrieve first encrypted data of the user having a user-layer of encryption. The processing computer can then generate a second symmetric key to add a relying party-layer of encryption to the first encrypted data using a stream cipher. The doubly encrypted data may be transmitted to a user device that removes the user-layer of encryption on the first doubly encrypted data, and then adds a second relying party-layer of encryption to form second doubly encrypted data. The second doubly encrypted data may be transmitted to the relying party computer, which can remove both relying party-layers of encryption to gain access to the data associated with the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Visa International Service Association
    Inventors: Sunpreet Singh Arora, Saikrishna Badrinarayanan, Srinivasan Raghuraman, Kim Wagner, Gaven Watson
  • Publication number: 20240105197
    Abstract: Provided is a method for enabling speaker de-identification in public audio data by leveraging adversarial perturbation. The method may include receiving audio data associated with at least one voice sample. One or more of the voice sample(s) may be perturbed toward an edge of a decision boundary of at least one classifier model. One pitch of each voice sample may be perturbed to shift each voice sample across the decision boundary of the at least one classifier model to provide at least one de-identified voice sample. A media file with the at least one de-identified voice sample may be encoded. A system and computer program product are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2022
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Yangyong Zhang, Maliheh Shirvanian, Sunpreet Singh Arora
  • Patent number: 11943363
    Abstract: Described herein are a system and techniques for enabling biometric authentication without exposing the authorizing entity to sensitive information. In some embodiments, the system receives a biometric template from a user device which is encrypted using a public key associated with the system. The encrypted biometric template is then provided to a second entity along with a biometric identifier. Upon receiving a request to complete a transaction that includes the biometric identifier and a second biometric template, the second entity may encrypt the second biometric template using the same public key associated with the system and perform a comparison between the two encrypted biometric templates. The resulting match result data file is already encrypted and can be provided to the system to determine an extent to which the two biometric templates match.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Visa International Service Association
    Inventors: John F. Sheets, Kim R. Wagner, Sunpreet Singh Arora, Lacey Best-Rowden, Chunxi Jiang
  • Publication number: 20240039719
    Abstract: A method is disclosed. The method includes receiving, by a processing network computer from a relying party computer associated with a relying party, a request for data associated with a user operating a user device. The processing network computer may retrieve first encrypted data of the user having a user-layer of encryption. The processing computer can then generate a second symmetric key to add a relying party-layer of encryption to the first encrypted data using a stream cipher. The doubly encrypted data may be transmitted to a user device that removes the user-layer of encryption on the first doubly encrypted data, and then adds a second relying party-layer of encryption to form second doubly encrypted data. The second doubly encrypted data may be transmitted to the relying party computer, which can remove both relying party-layers of encryption to gain access to the data associated with the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2022
    Publication date: February 1, 2024
    Applicant: Visa International Service Association
    Inventors: Sunpreet Singh Arora, Saikrishna Badrinarayanan, Srinivasan Raghuraman, Kim Wagner, Gaven Watson
  • Publication number: 20240020410
    Abstract: A method is disclosed. The method comprises receiving, by a digital identity computer, a request for personal data associated with a user. The digital identity computer may retrieve encrypted personal data, wherein the personal data is encrypted with a public key associated with the user. The digital identity computer may encrypt the encrypted personal data with a first public key associated with a relying party or derivative thereof to form subsequently encrypted personal data. The method may then proceed to transmit the subsequently encrypted personal data or derivative thereof to a relying party computer, or a user device. If the user device receives the subsequently encrypted personal data, the user device may thereafter transmit the subsequently encrypted personal data or derivative thereof to the relying party computer. Then, the relying party computer obtains the personal data from the subsequently encrypted personal data or derivative thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2021
    Publication date: January 18, 2024
    Applicant: Visa International Service Association
    Inventors: Sunpreet Singh Arora, Saikrishna Badrinarayanan, Srinivasan Raghuraman, Kim Wagner, Gaven James Watson, David Henstock, Jason Lightman
  • Publication number: 20230403160
    Abstract: Embodiments are directed to a method for securely performing biometric authentication online. The method described can be used to securely perform biometric authentication on a mobile device. For protecting the privacy of the user's biometric data, a cryptographic comparison protocol can be used to perform matching of encrypted templates. For example, the cryptographic comparison protocol may involve Fuzzy Extractors (FE), Homomorphic Encryption (HE), and/or Secure Multi-Party Computation (SMPC).
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2023
    Publication date: December 14, 2023
    Applicant: Visa International Service Association
    Inventors: Jason Blackhurst, Kim Wagner, John F. Sheets, Chunxi Jiang, Sunpreet Singh Arora
  • Patent number: 11811761
    Abstract: Techniques for intelligently deciding the optimal authenticator(s) from amongst those supported by an electronic device are described. The authentication system according to some embodiments may include a dynamic machine learner that incorporates the attributes of: (i) user behavior attributes (e.g., preferred authenticator); (ii) device attributes (e.g., hardware and software specifications, applications, etc.); and (iii) operating environment attributes (e.g., ambient light, noise, etc.), as well as the interplay between the aforementioned attributes over time to make the decision. In some embodiments, the authentication activities and patterns of other users of similar type (e.g., users exhibiting similar behavior across different operating environments) can also be learned and employed to improve the decision making process over time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: Visa International Service Association
    Inventors: Sunpreet Singh Arora, Kim R. Wagner, John F. Sheets, Lacey Best-Rowden
  • Publication number: 20230334332
    Abstract: Techniques are disclosed for performing adversarial object detection. In one example, a system obtains a feature vector upon receiving an object to be classified. The system then generates a graph using the feature vector for the object and other feature vectors that are respectively obtained from a reference set of objects, whereby the feature vector corresponds to a center node of the graph. The system uses a distance metric to select neighbor nodes from among the reference set of objects for inclusion into the graph, and then determines edge weights between nodes of the graph based on a distance between respective feature vectors between nodes. The system then applies a graph discriminator to the graph to classify the object as adversarial or benign, the graph discriminator being trained using (I) the feature vectors associated with nodes of the graph and (II) the edge weights between the nodes of the graph.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2021
    Publication date: October 19, 2023
    Applicant: Visa International Service Association
    Inventors: Yuhang Wu, Sunpreet Singh Arora, Hao Yang, Ahmed Abusnaina
  • Patent number: 11792012
    Abstract: A method is disclosed. An authentication node may receive a plurality of encrypted match values, wherein the plurality of encrypted match values were formed by a plurality of worker nodes that compare a plurality of encrypted second biometric template parts derived from a second biometric template to a plurality of encrypted first biometric template parts derived from a first biometric template. The authentication node may decrypt the plurality of encrypted match values resulting in a plurality of decrypted match values. The authentication node may then determine if a first biometric template matches the second biometric template using the plurality of decrypted match values. An enrollment node may be capable of enrolling a biometric template and storing encrypted biometric template parts at worker nodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Visa International Service Association
    Inventors: Sunpreet Singh Arora, Lacey Best-Rowden, Kim Wagner
  • Patent number: 11777736
    Abstract: Embodiments are directed to a method for securely performing biometric authentication online. The method described can be used to securely perform biometric authentication on a mobile device. For protecting the privacy of the users biometric data, a cryptographic comparison protocol can be used to perform matching of encrypted templates. For example, the cryptographic comparison protocol may involve Fuzzy Extractors (FE), Homomorphic Encryption (HE), and/or Secure Multi-Party Computation (SMPC).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: Visa International Service Association
    Inventors: Jason Blackhurst, Kim Wagner, John F. Sheets, Chunxi Jiang, Sunpreet Singh Arora
  • Publication number: 20230289441
    Abstract: In some embodiments, a malware detection system includes an attack channel removal unit, a feature extraction unit coupled to the attack channel removal unit, and a graphical encoding unit coupled to the feature extraction unit and a malware detection unit. In some embodiments, based upon graphically-encoded component-based features and monotonic features extracted from attack-channel-free software output by the attack channel removal unit, the malware detection unit detects malware in software input into the malware detection system. In some embodiments, the monotonic features extracted from the attack-channel free software and the graphically-encoded component-based features are combined to generate a combination monotonic-component based feature vector. In some embodiments, the combination monotonic-component based feature vector is used to detect malware using the malware detection system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2022
    Publication date: September 14, 2023
    Applicant: Visa International Service Association
    Inventors: Ahmed Abusnaina, Yizhen Wang, Sunpreet Singh Arora, Ke Wang, Mihai Christodorescu
  • Publication number: 20230275766
    Abstract: A method is disclosed. The method comprises receiving, by an identity network computer, a query set including a plurality of test identity attributes. After receiving the query set, the identity network computer may retrieve derivatives of identity attributes associated with a user, and an encrypted trapdoor, then compute an obscured query set using the query set, and optionally the derivatives of identity attributes. The identity network computer may transmit the obscured query set (i) and the encrypted trapdoor to a user device associated with the user, which generates and transmits a first modified trapdoor and the obscured query set to a relying party computer, or (ii) and a second modified trapdoor to the relying party computer. The relying party computer may thereafter use the obscured query set, and the first modified trapdoor or the second modified trapdoor, to determine if the identity attributes is a member of the query set.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2021
    Publication date: August 31, 2023
    Applicant: Visa International Service Association
    Inventors: Kim Wagner, Brian Sullivan, Dinah Sloan, Hao Ngo, Gaven James Watson, Sunpreet Singh Arora, Saikrishna Badrinarayanan, Srinivasan Raghuraman
  • Patent number: 11716328
    Abstract: A method is disclosed. The method includes constructing a table by encrypting a plurality of unencrypted match values using a public key to produce a plurality of encrypted match values. Each unencrypted match value being an indication of a degree of match between an input biometric template and an enrollment template. The method includes arranging each row so that each row has a match value and a corresponding encrypted match value. The method also includes storing, in a database, the table comprising the plurality of encrypted match values and the plurality of unencrypted match values. The server computer can be programmed to receive an encrypted biometric template and the table is used to determine a match value using the encrypted biometric template, and the match value is used to determine if a person is enrolling a biometric template associated with the encrypted biometric template more than once.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: Visa International Service Association
    Inventors: Kim Wagner, Sunpreet Singh Arora, Lacey Best-Rowden
  • Publication number: 20230196862
    Abstract: Provided is a computer-implemented method for authenticating an identification document. The method includes determining, with at least one processor, whether image data associated with the identification document has at least one predetermined indicia. In response to determining that the image data has the at least one predetermined indicia, the method includes determining whether the at least one predetermined indicia corresponds to at least one invalidation mark on the identification document, and, in response to determining that the at least one predetermined indicia corresponds to the at least one invalidation mark, determining, that the identification document is invalid. In response to determining that the identification document is invalid, the method includes preventing or causing the prevention of at least one action from being performed. A system and computer program product for authenticating identification documents are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2023
    Publication date: June 22, 2023
    Inventors: Sunpreet Singh Arora, Kim R. Wagner
  • Publication number: 20230196366
    Abstract: Provided is a computer-implemented method for authenticating a customer during payment transactions based on biometric identification parameters of the customer that includes receiving image data associated with an image template for identification of a customer, receiving image data associated with an image of a biometric identification parameter of the customer during a payment transaction between the customer and a merchant, establishing a short-range communication connection with a user device associated with the customer during the payment transaction between the customer and the merchant, authenticating an identity of the customer for the payment transaction via the short-range communication connection, determining an account identifier of an account of the customer based on authenticating the identity of the customer for the payment transaction, and processing the payment transaction using the account identifier of the account of the customer. A system and computer program product are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2023
    Publication date: June 22, 2023
    Inventors: Elianna Starr, Dennis Franklin Olson, Amy Dawson, Andres Jimenez, Jiayun He, Amisha Sisodiya, Jorge Andre Torres Perez Palacios, Binoy Parag Parikh, Saloni Vijaykumar Mahajan, Sowmya Vuddaraju, Sneha Sri Tadepalli, Lacey Best-Rowden, Kim R. Wagner, Sunpreet Singh Arora, Sunit Lohtia, John F. Sheets
  • Patent number: 11676610
    Abstract: Acoustic signatures can be used in connection with a voice-enabled computer system. An acoustic signature can be a specific noise pattern (or other sound) that is played while the user is speaking and that is mixed in the acoustic channel with the user's speech. The microphone of the voice-enabled computer system can capture, as recorded audio, a mix of the acoustic signature and the user's voice. The voice-enabled computer system can analyze the recorded audio (locally or at a backend server) to verify that the expected acoustic signature is present and/or that no previous acoustic signature is present.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: Visa International Service Association
    Inventors: Yangyong Zhang, Mastooreh Salajegheh, Maliheh Shirvanian, Sunpreet Singh Arora
  • Patent number: 11620854
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention are directed to systems, methods, and devices for testing the security of a facial recognition system (FRS). A target image depicting a target person enrolled in the FRS and a tester image depicting a tester may be obtained. A plurality of transformed images may be generated from an image of the target person or the tester image. A processed tester image (e.g., one that is likely to cause the FRS to misclassify) may be identified using the plurality of transformed images, the tester image, and the target image. Data representing a light pattern can be generated using the processed tester image and the light pattern can be projected onto a second person. Another image may be captured of the second person with the light pattern as projected. This image may be provided to the FRS and a remedial action may be performed based on the corresponding output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: VISA INTERNATIONAL SERVICE ASSOCIATION
    Inventors: Luan Nguyen, Sunpreet Singh Arora, Yuhang Wu, Hao Yang
  • Patent number: 11620657
    Abstract: Provided is a computer-implemented method for authenticating an identification document. The method includes determining, with at least one processor, whether image data associated with the identification document has at least one predetermined indicia. In response to determining that the image data has the at least one predetermined indicia, the method includes determining whether the at least one predetermined indicia corresponds to at least one invalidation mark on the identification document, and, in response to determining that the at least one predetermined indicia corresponds to the at least one invalidation mark, determining, that the identification document is invalid. In response to determining that the identification document is invalid, the method includes preventing or causing the prevention of at least one action from being performed. A system and computer program product for authenticating identification documents are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: Visa International Service Association
    Inventors: Sunpreet Singh Arora, Kim R. Wagner