Patents by Inventor William Hatzer

William Hatzer 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).

  • SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR BOT DETECTION
    Publication number: 20200068035
    Abstract: A method, a system, and an article are provided for detecting bot users of a software application. An example method can include: providing a client application to a plurality of users; obtaining device-based data and application-based data for each user, the device-based data including a description of at least one computer component used to run the client application, the application-based data including a history of user interactions with the client application; aggregating the data to obtain a plurality of bot signals for each user; analyzing the bot signals to detect a bot among the plurality of users; and preventing the bot from accessing the client application.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2019
    Publication date: February 27, 2020
    Inventors: Heng Wang, Owen S. Vallis, Arun Kejariwal, Harsh Singhal, William Hatzer, James Koh
  • System and method for bot detection
    Patent number: 10491697
    Abstract: A method, a system, and an article are provided for detecting bot users of a software application. An example method can include: providing a client application to a plurality of users; obtaining device-based data and application-based data for each user, the device-based data including a description of at least one computer component used to run the client application, the application-based data including a history of user interactions with the client application; aggregating the data to obtain a plurality of bot signals for each user; analyzing the bot signals to detect a bot among the plurality of users; and preventing the bot from accessing the client application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2019
    Assignee: Cognant LLC
    Inventors: Heng Wang, Owen S. Vallis, Arun Kejariwal, Harsh Singhal, William Hatzer, James Koh
  • SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR BOT DETECTION
    Publication number: 20190253504
    Abstract: A method, a system, and an article are provided for detecting bot users of a software application. An example method can include: providing a client application to a plurality of users; obtaining device-based data and application-based data for each user, the device-based data including a description of at least one computer component used to run the client application, the application-based data including a history of user interactions with the client application; aggregating the data to obtain a plurality of bot signals for each user; analyzing the bot signals to detect a bot among the plurality of users; and preventing the bot from accessing the client application.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2019
    Publication date: August 15, 2019
    Inventors: Heng Wang, Owen S. Vallis, Arun Kejariwal, Harsh Singhal, William Hatzer, James Koh