Patents Assigned to Entefy Inc.
  • Patent number: 9843543
    Abstract: This disclosure relates generally to apparatuses, methods, and computer readable media for composing communications for computing devices across multiple formats and multiple protocols. More particularly, but not by way of limitation, this disclosure relates to apparatuses, methods, and computer readable media to permit computing devices, e.g., smartphones, tablets, laptops, and the like, to send encrypted or unencrypted group communications in a number of pre-determined and/or ‘determined-on-the-fly’ communications formats and/or protocols. Correlation of messages comprising secure group communications across multi-format multi-protocol may be determined by tracking message groups and mapping aliases across protocols. The techniques disclosed herein allow communications systems to become ‘message-centric’ or ‘people-centric’ as opposed to ‘protocol-centric,’ eventually allowing consideration of message protocol and security mechanisms to fall away entirely for the sender of the communication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2017
    Assignee: Entefy Inc.
    Inventors: Alston Ghafourifar, Philip Nathan Greenberg
  • Patent number: 9819621
    Abstract: This disclosure relates generally to apparatus, methods, and computer readable media for composing communications for computing devices across multiple formats and multiple protocols. More particularly, but not by way of limitation, this disclosure relates to apparatus, methods, and computer readable media to permit computing devices, e.g., smartphones, tablets, laptops, and the like, to send communications in a number of pre-determined and/or ‘determined-on-the-fly’ optimal communications formats and/or protocols. Determinations of optimal delivery methods may be intelligently based on the sender individually or the relationship with the sender in the context of a group of recipients—including the format of the incoming communication, the preferred format of the recipient and/or sender, and an optimal format for a given communication message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: Entefy Inc.
    Inventors: Alston Ghafourifar, Mehdi Ghafourifar
  • Patent number: 9639600
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to systems, methods, and computer readable media for performing multi-format, multi-protocol personalized message threading in a way that is most beneficial for the individual user. Users desire a system that will provide for ease of message threading by “stitching” together related communications in a manner that is seamless from the user's perspective. Such stitching together of communications across multiple formats and protocols—in conjunction with the use of contextual learning techniques and/or personalized index search parameter weighting techniques—may facilitate the providing of personalized query result sets to users of such systems. Personalized results may be based, at least in part, on, e.g.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: Entefy Inc.
    Inventor: Alston Ghafourifar
  • Patent number: 9594827
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to personalized and dynamic server-side searching techniques for encrypted data. Current so-called ‘zero-knowledge’ privacy systems (i.e., systems where the server has ‘zero-knowledge’ about the client data that it is storing) utilize servers that hold encrypted data without the decryption keys necessary to decrypt, index, and/or re-encrypt the data. As such, the servers are not able to perform any kind of meaningful server-side search process, as it would require access to the underlying decrypted data. Therefore, such prior art ‘zero-knowledge’ privacy systems provide a limited ability for a user to search through a large dataset of encrypted documents to find critical information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2017
    Assignee: Entefy Inc.
    Inventors: Alston Ghafourifar, Philip Nathan Greenberg, Mehdi Ghafourifar
  • Publication number: 20150244657
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to systems, methods, and computer readable media for performing multi-format, multi-protocol message threading in a way that is most beneficial for the individual user. Users desire a system that will provide for ease of message threading by “stitching” together related communications in a manner that is seamless from the user's perspective. Such stitching together of communications across multiple formats and protocols may occur, e.g., by: 1) direct user action in a centralized communications application (e.g., by a user clicking ‘Reply’ on a particular message); 2) using semantic matching (or other search-style message association techniques); 3) element-matching (e.g., matching on subject lines or senders/recipients/similar quoted text, etc.); and 4) “state-matching” (e.g., associating messages if they are specifically tagged as being related to another message, sender, etc. by a third-party service, e.g., a webmail provider or Instant Messaging (IM) service).
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2014
    Publication date: August 27, 2015
    Applicant: Entefy Inc.
    Inventors: Alston Ghafourifar, Mehdi Ghafourifar, Brienne Ghafourifar
  • Publication number: 20150215256
    Abstract: This disclosure relates generally to apparatuses, methods, and computer readable media for integrating communications for computing devices across multiple formats and multiple protocols. More particularly, this disclosure relates to apparatuses, methods, and computer readable media to permit computing devices, e.g., smartphones, tablets, laptops, wearables, and the like, to present users with a multi-protocol, person-centric, multi-format inbox feed system for integrating multi-format communications. Use of a person-centric, e.g., sender-specific, inbox feed allows users to view/preview all their messages in a single feed. Grouping messages by sender also conveniently allows the user to stay on the same user interface screen while reviewing messages and allows for quick visual filtering of messages. Such a communication feed may also include messages in one or more of a variety of communication formats (e.g.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2014
    Publication date: July 30, 2015
    Applicant: Entefy Inc.
    Inventors: Alston Ghafourifar, Mehdi Ghafourifar, Brienne Ghafourifar
  • Publication number: 20150188862
    Abstract: This disclosure relates generally to apparatuses, methods, and computer readable media for composing communications for computing devices across multiple formats and multiple protocols. More particularly, but not by way of limitation, this disclosure relates to apparatuses, methods, and computer readable media to permit computing devices, e.g., smartphones, tablets, laptops, and the like, to send communications in a number of pre-determined and/or ‘determined-on-the-fly’ communications formats and/or protocols via a single, seamless user interface. Determinations of outgoing communication formats and/or protocols may be based on, e.g., the format of the incoming communication, the preferred format of the recipient and/or sender of the communication, an optimal format for a given communication session/message, and/or economic considerations of format/protocol choice to the recipient and/or sender.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2013
    Publication date: July 2, 2015
    Applicant: Entefy Inc.
    Inventors: Alston Ghafourifar, Mehdi Ghafourifar, Brienne Ghafourifar