Patents by Inventor Terry NELMS, II

Terry NELMS, II 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: 20200252506
    Abstract: Embodiments described herein provide for detecting whether an Automatic Number Identification (ANI) associated with an incoming call is a gateway, according to rules-based models and machine learning models generated by the computer using call data stored in one or more databases.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2020
    Publication date: August 6, 2020
    Inventors: AKANKSHA, Terry NELMS, II, Kailash PATIL, Chirag TAILOR, Khaled LAKHDHAR
  • Patent number: 10715660
    Abstract: In an illustrative embodiment, a user device may block all the phone numbers used by an enterprise. When an enterprise wants to call the user, the enterprise may notify the user device through a separate secure channel that an enterprise phone number is in the process of making a phone call to the user device. The secure channel may include an authentication server that may request the user device to unblock the enterprise phone number. An incoming phone call from the enterprise phone number therefore can be trusted. After the phone call is terminated, the user device may again block the enterprise phone number. An attacker may not have access to the authentication server and a phone call from the attacker with a spoofed enterprise phone number (now blocked) may be dropped by the user device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: Pindrop Security, Inc.
    Inventors: Payas Gupta, Terry Nelms, II
  • Patent number: 10665244
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are embodiments of systems, methods, and products comprises an authentication server for authentication leveraging multiple audio channels. The server receives an authentication request regarding a user upon the user interacting with a first electronic device. The server requests the first device to transmit a first audio file of an audio sample to the server. The audio sample may be the user's audio command or a machine-generated audio signal. The server requests a second electronic device to transmit a second audio file that is the recording of the same audio sample to the server. The second electronic device is a trusted device in proximity of the first device and executes an authentication function to enable the recording and transmitting of the audio sample. The server determines a similarity score between the first audio file and the second audio file and authenticates the user based on the similarity score.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: Pindrop Security, Inc.
    Inventors: Payas Gupta, Terry Nelms, II
  • Patent number: 10623403
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are embodiments of systems, methods, and products comprises an authentication server for authentication leveraging multiple audio channels. The server receives an authentication request regarding a user upon the user interacting with a first electronic device. The server requests the first device to transmit a first audio file of an audio sample to the server. The audio sample may be the user's audio command or a machine-generated audio signal. The server requests a second electronic device to transmit a second audio file that is the recording of the same audio sample to the server. The second electronic device is a trusted device in proximity of the first device and executes an authentication function to enable the recording and transmitting of the audio sample. The server determines a similarity score between the first audio file and the second audio file and authenticates the user based on the similarity score.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Assignee: Pindrop Security, Inc.
    Inventors: Payas Gupta, Terry Nelms, II
  • Publication number: 20200045170
    Abstract: In an illustrative embodiment, a user device may block all the phone numbers used by an enterprise. When an enterprise wants to call the user, the enterprise may notify the user device through a separate secure channel that an enterprise phone number is in the process of making a phone call to the user device. The secure channel may include an authentication server that may request the user device to unblock the enterprise phone number. An incoming phone call from the enterprise phone number therefore can be trusted. After the phone call is terminated, the user device may again block the enterprise phone number. An attacker may not have access to the authentication server and a phone call from the attacker with a spoofed enterprise phone number (now blocked) may be dropped by the user device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2019
    Publication date: February 6, 2020
    Inventors: Payas GUPTA, Terry NELMS, II
  • Patent number: 10440178
    Abstract: In an illustrative embodiment, a user device may block all the phone numbers used by an enterprise. When an enterprise wants to call the user, the enterprise may notify the user device through a separate secure channel that an enterprise phone number is in the process of making a phone call to the user device. The secure channel may include an authentication server that may request the user device to unblock the enterprise phone number. An incoming phone call from the enterprise phone number therefore can be trusted. After the phone call is terminated, the user device may again block the enterprise phone number. An attacker may not have access to the authentication server and a phone call from the attacker with a spoofed enterprise phone number (now blocked) may be dropped by the user device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2019
    Assignee: Pindrop Security, Inc.
    Inventors: Payas Gupta, Terry Nelms, II
  • Publication number: 20190281157
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are embodiments of systems, methods, and products comprises an authentication server for caller ID verification. When a caller makes a phone call, the server receives the phone call and verifies whether the phone call is from a registered device associated with the phone number. The server queries the registered device to retrieve one or more current call states via an authentication function on the registered device. The server compares the states and/or state transitions to the observed states and/or state transitions of the phone call. If the registered device states and/or state transitions match the observed phone call states and/or state transitions, the server verifies that the phone call is from the registered device and not some imposter's device. If there is no such match, the server rejects the phone call before the call phone is connected or terminates the phone call after the phone call is connected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2019
    Publication date: September 12, 2019
    Inventors: Payas GUPTA, Terry NELMS, II
  • Publication number: 20190281158
    Abstract: In an illustrative embodiment, a user device may block all the phone numbers used by an enterprise. When an enterprise wants to call the user, the enterprise may notify the user device through a separate secure channel that an enterprise phone number is in the process of making a phone call to the user device. The secure channel may include an authentication server that may request the user device to unblock the enterprise phone number. An incoming phone call from the enterprise phone number therefore can be trusted. After the phone call is terminated, the user device may again block the enterprise phone number. An attacker may not have access to the authentication server and a phone call from the attacker with a spoofed enterprise phone number (now blocked) may be dropped by the user device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2019
    Publication date: September 12, 2019
    Inventors: Payas GUPTA, Terry NELMS, II