Patents Assigned to Go Daddy Operating Company, LLC
  • Publication number: 20140136839
    Abstract: Methods and systems of the present invention allow for dynamic updates of digital certificates. In one system, a server computer is configured to communicate with a certificate authority via a communications network. The server computer is configured to receive a first security certificate from the certificate authority. The first security certificate has a term. The first security certificate is installed onto the server computer, and at least one of a current time and the term of the first security certificate are analyzed to determine whether the first security certificate is to be updated. When the first security certificate is to be updated, a request for update is transmitted to the certificate authority, a second security certificate is received from the certificate authority, and the first security certificate is replaced with the second security certificate on the server computer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2014
    Publication date: May 15, 2014
    Applicant: Go Daddy Operating Company, LLC
    Inventor: Wayne Thayer
  • Patent number: 8719223
    Abstract: Systems and methods of the present invention provide for a user uploading a file and a customized metadata about the file to a file storage system, and reading the same back upon request. This information may be forwarded to an application, possibly an API, which may divide the file into a plurality of file chunks if the file is greater than a predetermined file size. One or more tracker servers may check a database to locate optimal or current file locations for the file or file chunks to be stored within the file storage system. These optimal or current locations may be returned from the tracker servers to the application/API which may perform an HTTP request to write the file to or read the file from the file storage system. The file write may be validated and finalized, and the successful write or read may be displayed to the user on a user interface on a client.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2014
    Assignee: Go Daddy Operating Company, LLC
    Inventors: Adam Knapp, Brian Krouse, Joseph Miller, Eric Nilsen, Brent Strange
  • Patent number: 8719196
    Abstract: One embodiment of a method of the present invention for monitoring computer resources provides for retrieving a set of resource-metric records for a predetermined time interval, forming a first mathematical matrix containing metric's values arranged on date-time and resource-metric axes, creating a second mathematical matrix containing features and a third mathematical matrix containing weights, building a feature relationship tree, generating a predicted value for the resource-metric identifier, determining a variance between predicted value and metric's value, and triggering an alert if the variance exceeds a predetermined alert threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2014
    Assignee: Go Daddy Operating Company, LLC
    Inventor: Erskine Thompson
  • Patent number: 8706486
    Abstract: An exemplary system for detecting and preventing voice data leakage may comprise one or more servers running a packet payload converter module, a transcript generator module, and a detection logic module. The packet payload converter module may receive VoIP packets, convert them to a digital audio file, and write the digital audio file to a media database. The transcript generator module may read the digital audio file from the media database, convert it to a text file, and write the text file to a transcript database. The detection logic module may read the text file from the transcript database, parse it into a plurality of keywords, determine whether the plurality of keywords contain one or more target keyword, and, if so, transmit a report to an events database.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2014
    Assignee: Go Daddy Operating Company, LLC
    Inventors: Ganesh Devarajan, Don Lebert, Todd Redfoot
  • Patent number: 8706816
    Abstract: Systems and methods of the present invention allow for delivery of email messages to email addresses associated with the shared domain names. A Routing Mail Server may determine a network address or a geographical location of a Sender and forward email message to a Recipient associated with that network address or geographical location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2014
    Assignee: Go Daddy Operating Company, LLC
    Inventor: Tim Ruiz
  • Patent number: 8706728
    Abstract: Systems and methods of the present invention provide for the word splitting and reliability score for an entered character string. A list of keywords may be extracted from the character string entered into a user interface on a client. These keywords may be compared to potential matches in a dictionary database and a reliability score for word splits and keywords strings may be compiled and displayed to the user. The client may also display the reliability score using a plurality of logical groupings within a reliability score process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2014
    Assignee: Go Daddy Operating Company, LLC
    Inventors: Paul Nicks, Doug Schmucker, Jeff Belina, Gregory Glick, Patrick Lutwitze
  • Publication number: 20140108369
    Abstract: Systems and method of the present invention provide for one or more server computers configured to receive one or more keywords topically relevant to a content of a web page, request from a search engine a first metric comprising a quantity of times the keywords have appeared in a search query with one or more question keywords during a time period and a second metric comprising a probability of receiving a high rank associated with the one or more keywords and the one or more question keywords, receive, from the search engine, the first metric and the second metric, calculate a keyword effectiveness index from the first metric and the second metric, and generate and transmit to a client computer one or more recommendations to include a high ranked suggested content on the web page according to the keyword effectiveness index.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2012
    Publication date: April 17, 2014
    Applicant: Go Daddy Operating Company, LLC
    Inventor: Rajinder Nijjer
  • Patent number: 8700486
    Abstract: Methods of the present invention allow for rating eCommerce transactions. An exemplary method for rating an eCommerce transaction may comprise the steps of identifying a plurality of data indicating the trustworthiness of a Hosting Provider, a Merchant, and/or a Customer, collecting the data, and generating a Transaction Trust Rating for an eCommerce transaction, with the Transaction Trust Rating being based upon the collected data. The Transaction Trust Rating may be stored in a Repository accessible to Internet users. A Transaction Trust Rating Indicator (indicative of the Transaction Trust Rating) also may be provided to the Hosting Provider, Merchant, and/or Customer and may take the form of a certificate for display on a webpage, a change in color of an address bar on a browser, and/or an alphanumeric ranking.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2014
    Assignee: Go Daddy Operating Company, LLC
    Inventor: Neil Warner
  • Publication number: 20140082064
    Abstract: Systems and methods of the present invention provide for displaying, suggesting and registering available domain names on a client computer based on selected geographical locations from online mapping service software or a geo-location software. Any combination of an online mapping software and a domain name registration software may receive a selection of one or more geographical locations within a displayed geographical area. Alternatively, a location of a client computer may be detected using the geo-location software. One or more available domain names may be parse for keywords related to the selected geographical area, and one or more available domain names may be suggested based on the selected keywords.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2013
    Publication date: March 20, 2014
    Applicant: Go Daddy Operating Company, LLC
    Inventors: Paul Nicks, Robert Bacus, Adam Dicker
  • Patent number: 8620761
    Abstract: The present inventions may be implemented by tools enabling preferred domain positioning on a registration website. An example may comprise a computer-readable media storing instructions that, when executed by a server computer, cause the server to receive a bid from a registry seeking such preferred placement for a domain (that may be administered by the registry), generate a quality score for the domain, and determine the preferred placement based upon the bid and the quality score.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2013
    Assignee: Go Daddy Operating Company, LLC
    Inventors: Robert Parsons, Barbara Rechterman, Micheal Zimmerman, James Bladel, Richard Merdinger
  • Patent number: 8615653
    Abstract: Methods and systems of the present invention allow for dynamic updates of digital certificates, such as X.509 SSL certificates. The updates are available via a subscription, where the subscription is a technical, administrative, and/or financial arrangements between a Subscriber and a Certification Authority or between a Hosting Provider and the Certification Authority, which allow for dynamic, and in some embodiments automatic, updates of the Subscriber's certificate. The Subscriber regularly requests updates from the Certification Authority (pull-type methods and systems) or the Certification Authority updates certificates on Subscriber's servers (push-type methods and systems). The invention anticipates a use of short lifespan certificates, which substantially overcomes the issues connected to revoked certificates. If a certificate was revoked it will shortly expire and the Certification Authority would not update it.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2013
    Assignee: Go Daddy Operating Company, LLC
    Inventor: Wayne Thayer
  • Patent number: 8601098
    Abstract: An example embodiment for providing one or more applications to one or more customers of an online application store via a partner website starts with hosting the partner web site and an online application store. A partner, from the partner web site, may make an application available for purchase and use to one or more customers. The one or more customers, may purchase and download the application from the online application store.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2013
    Assignee: Go Daddy Operating Company, LLC
    Inventors: Warren Adelman, Michael Chadwick
  • Patent number: 8600915
    Abstract: One embodiment of a system of the present invention for monitoring computer resources includes means for retrieving a set of resource-metric records for a predetermined time interval, means for forming a first mathematical matrix containing metric's values arranged on date-time and resource-metric axes, means for creating a second mathematical matrix containing features and a third mathematical matrix containing weights, means for building a feature relationship tree, means for generating a predicted value for the resource-metric identifier, means for determining a variance between predicted value and metric's value, and means for triggering an alert if the variance exceeds a predetermined alert threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2013
    Assignee: Go Daddy Operating Company, LLC
    Inventor: Erskine Thompson
  • Publication number: 20130312012
    Abstract: One embodiment of a method of the present invention provides for obtaining from one or more event generators a first event for one or more hosting accounts with a first content and a second event for the one or more hosting accounts with a second content, changing the second content of the second event for the one or more hosting accounts as a function of the first content of the first event for the one or more hosting accounts, and executing the first event and the second event.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2012
    Publication date: November 21, 2013
    Applicant: Go Daddy Operating Company, LLC.
    Inventors: Michael Bovich, Daymion Reynolds, Erskine Thompson
  • Patent number: 8589474
    Abstract: Systems and methods of the present invention allow for a thin client which may be provided with a domain name in a partnership between a hosting provider, an ISP and/or a thin client retailer. The client may be used to access a remote computer or server in the hosting provider's data center.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2013
    Assignee: Go Daddy Operating Company, LLC
    Inventors: Robert Parsons, Warren Adelman, Michael Chadwick, Eric Wagner
  • Patent number: 8572192
    Abstract: Methods of the present inventions allow for private messaging a second recipient of an electronic communication. An exemplary method may comprise the steps of receiving a request to compose an electronic communication from a sender; generating a first electronic communication comprising a first recipient field, a second recipient field, and a first message field; receiving (from the sender) a first recipient electronic address in the first recipient field, a second recipient electronic address in the second recipient field, and a first message in the first message field; and prompting the sender for a private message for transmission only to the second recipient electronic address. Responsive to a negative response from the sender to the prompting step, the method may further comprise transmitting a completed version of the first electronic communication to both the first recipient electronic address and the second recipient electronic address.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2013
    Assignee: Go Daddy Operating Company, LLC
    Inventor: Daniel Hardy
  • Patent number: 8572496
    Abstract: Method and system of present invention provide a web-based graphical user interface to a remote user for sending electronic messages, where the interface comprises an element for selecting an option for sending individual electronic messages to multiple recipients in visible fields (“to” and “cc”), obtain a set of data, comprising a list of two or more recipients in visible fields, a message subject and/or a message body, where the message subject and/or the message body contain a markup indicating variable field, and generate and transmit individual electronic messages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2013
    Assignee: Go Daddy Operating Company, LLC
    Inventor: David Koopman
  • Patent number: 8560665
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method for an Entrepreneur to start an Internet business by creating an Entrepreneur's web site using tools provided at a Facilitator's web site. The method allows the Entrepreneur to access the Facilitator's web site, register a desired available domain name, trademark the domain name, design an Entrepreneur's web site accessible via the domain name, design a similar appearing store front web site to handle commercial transactions, copyright the Entrepreneur's web site, offer hosting services for the Entrepreneur's web site and submit the Entrepreneur's web site to one or more search engines. Tremendous synergies may be achieved and serious pitfalls avoided in creating the Internet business by receiving overall guidance and assistance from one web site, i.e. a Facilitator's web site, in performing these processes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2013
    Assignee: Go Daddy Operation Company, LLC
    Inventors: Robert R. Parsons, Michael Wayne Crosby, Steven Sachs, Nima Kelly, Jeff Carradus
  • Patent number: 8538065
    Abstract: One embodiment of a system of present invention includes means for obtaining an image from a requester, means for obtaining contact information for vouching people, whom requester identifies as having personal knowledge of the requester, and means for sending an electronic message to the vouching people, with a link to an image lineup. The image lineup contains the image obtained from the requester and other images. The system further includes means for receiving a selection choice from the vouching people, identifying whether the image in the image lineup depicts the requester, and means for calculating a statistical rating of a likelihood that the image obtained from the requester depicts him/her.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2013
    Assignee: Go Daddy Operating Company, LLC
    Inventors: James M. Bladel, Yong Lee, Noah D. Plumb, Wayne Thayer
  • Patent number: 8533453
    Abstract: Systems and methods of the present invention provide for configuring a server and loading SSL information by dynamically loading SSL information into a template based on an implicit SSL-based configuration. A Proxy Server may be used to determine an IP address on which the incoming network request was received, implicitly configure a configuration file accordingly, determine if an SSL information is contained within a cache, on a disk or in a database for the IP address and dynamically load the SSL information into an implicit generic template.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2013
    Assignee: Go Daddy Operating Company, LLC
    Inventors: Joseph Miller, Levente Batizy