Patents Assigned to NortonLifeLock Inc.
  • Patent number: 11176268
    Abstract: The disclosed computer-implemented method for generating user profiles may include (i) analyzing a data set of user profiles for services, (ii) detecting a measurement of obfuscation that was applied to a specific attribute across multiple user profiles for a specific service, (iii) applying the measurement of obfuscation to true data for a new user by fuzzing the true data to create a fuzzed value, and (iv) generating automatically a new user profile for the specific service by populating the specific attribute within the new user profile with the fuzzed value. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: NortonLifeLock Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel Kats, Petros Efstathopoulos, Chris Gates
  • Patent number: 11172258
    Abstract: Protecting against an impersonation scam in a live video stream. In some embodiments, a method may include periodically extracting and storing signature features from verified video streams of verified streamers, identifying an unverified live video stream of an unverified streamer being viewed by one or more users, extracting and storing signature features from the unverified live video stream, computing overall distance scores between the signature features of the unverified live video stream and the signature features of the verified video streams, determining whether the unverified streamer is impersonating one or more of the verified streamers by determining whether one or more of the overall distance scores are less than a distance threshold, determining whether one or more text signature features of the unverified live video stream include an impersonation scam, and performing a remedial action to protect the one or more users from the impersonation scam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: NORTONLIFELOCK INC.
    Inventors: Acar Tamersoy, Kevin Alejandro Roundy, Daniel Kats, Platon Kotzias
  • Patent number: 11163872
    Abstract: The disclosed computer-implemented method for identifying cybersecurity status based on an ontology of vault items may include (i) identifying, at a computing device, the ontology of a plurality of vault items and (ii) performing a security action including (A) calculating, based on the ontology, a respective impact score for each vault item in the plurality of vault items and (B) calculating a master score of a plurality of passwords from (I) a respective password strength of each password in the plurality of passwords and (II) the respective impact score for each vault item associated with each password in the plurality of passwords. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: NortonLifeLock Inc.
    Inventor: Venkadesan Marimuthu
  • Patent number: 11157621
    Abstract: The disclosed computer-implemented method for detecting and preventing auto-click attacks may include (1) detecting, by the computing device, a click input, (2) detecting, by the computing device, a finger in proximity to the computing device, (3) analyzing, by the computing device, at least one event associated with the finger, (4) determining, by the computing device, that the click input is an auto-click based on the analysis of the at least one event associated with the finger, and (5) performing a security action in response to determining that the click input is an auto-click. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: NortonLifeLock Inc.
    Inventors: Sharad Mhaske, Shrikant Pawar
  • Patent number: 11146533
    Abstract: A user name, password and associated domain are stored for each account managed by a password manager on a computing device. A device-level network extension filters network traffic. Passwords are identified in outbound network traffic. Target domains to which identified passwords are being transmitted are compared to stored domains associated with the identified passwords. Based on results of these comparisons, it is determined whether attempts to transmit passwords to target domains are legitimate or not. In response to determining that a specific attempt to transmit a password to a target domain is legitimate, the transmission is allowed to proceed. Responsive to determining that a given attempt to transmit a password to a target domain is not legitimate, a corresponding security action is taken. For example, the connection over which the non-legitimate password transmission attempt is being made can be terminated, or the transmission attempt can be blocked.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: NortonLifeLock, Inc.
    Inventor: Ming Chen
  • Patent number: 11144425
    Abstract: The disclosed computer-implemented method for crowd sourced application advisory may include determining at least one characteristic associated with an application, collecting, from a plurality of computing devices, a sentiment associated with the application, wherein the sentiment reflects an assessment of the application in light of the at least one characteristic by at least one user of the application, presenting, via a user interface, the at least one characteristic associated with the application, the presentation of the at least one characteristic being modified by the sentiment collected from the plurality of computing devices, and receiving, via the user interface, at least one of a decision to install the application or a decision to uninstall the application. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: NortonLifeLock Inc.
    Inventors: Nikhil Salunke, Radoslav Stanev, Sudhir Kumar
  • Patent number: 11146537
    Abstract: The disclosed computer-implemented method for protecting geolocation information may include (i) receiving, by a computing device, a geolocation security policy that defines an area in which access to geolocation information by applications will be at least partially limited to protect the privacy of a user, (ii) detecting, by the computing device, a geolocation of the computing device, (iii) applying, by the computing device, the geolocation security policy to the detected geolocation to determine whether the detected geolocation matches the area in which access to geolocation information by the applications will be at least partially limited, and (iv) performing, by the computing device, a security action to protect the privacy of the user based on determining that the detected geolocation matches the area. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: NortonLifeLock Inc.
    Inventor: Mark Kennedy
  • Patent number: 11140136
    Abstract: The disclosed computer-implemented method for enhancing user privacy may include (i) intercepting, by a privacy-protecting network proxy, network traffic between a client device and a server device, the client device being protected by a network-based privacy solution that inhibits browser fingerprinting through the privacy-protecting network proxy, (ii) detecting, at the privacy-protecting network proxy, that the network traffic indicates an attempt by a browser fingerprinting service to perform browser fingerprinting on the client device, and (iii) modifying, at the privacy-protecting network proxy based on the detecting of the attempt to perform browser fingerprinting, the intercepted network traffic such that browser fingerprinting performed by the browser fingerprinting service is at least partially inhibited. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: NortonLifeLock Inc.
    Inventors: Qing Li, Chris Ciborowski
  • Patent number: 11140145
    Abstract: The disclosed computer-implemented method for providing single sign-on capability may include intercepting, during an authentication session with a network resource, a single sign-on request generated by an application executing on a computing device, redirecting the single sign-on request to a separate computing device for execution, receiving, in response to authentication of at least one user credential from the separate computing device, an authentication decision that the separate computing device obtained from an identity provider (IDP) by executing the single sign-on request and injecting the authentication decision received from the separate computing device into the application where the single sign-on request was originally generated to complete the authentication session.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: NortonLifeLock Inc.
    Inventors: Ilya Sokolov, Keith Newstadt
  • Patent number: 11140196
    Abstract: Malware fingerprinting on encrypted Transport Layer Security (TLS) traffic. A method may include obtaining, by the computing device, input data of a TLS communication between a client device and a server device; extracting, by the computing device, features associated with the TLS communication; determining, by the computing device, an association between the TLS communication and a known malware family by applying a clustering algorithm to the extracted features; analyzing, by the computing device, at least one cluster determined by applying the clustering algorithm to determine a purity level; assigning, by the computing device, a malware family fingerprint to the TLS communication based on the purity level; applying, by the computing device, the malware family fingerprint to a backend of a network to determine a probability of an attack; and initiating, by the computing device, a security action based on the probability of the attack.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: NORTONLIFELOCK INC.
    Inventors: Leyla Bilge, Matteo Dell'Amico
  • Patent number: 11132442
    Abstract: The disclosed computer-implemented method for enforcing secure shared access on computing devices by context pinning may include recording, on the computing device, one or more actions performed on one or more applications, determining, based on the recorded actions and applications, a context that defines permitted actions and applications for a guest user of the computing device, monitoring, based on the context, user activity on the computing device, detecting an activity that violates the context, and performing, in response to the detection, a security action. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2021
    Assignee: NortonLifeLock Inc.
    Inventors: Anand Darak, Sudhir Kumar
  • Patent number: 11132447
    Abstract: Determining security vulnerabilities of smart home devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2021
    Assignee: NORTONLIFELOCK INC.
    Inventors: Yuqiong Sun, Xueqiang Wang, Susanta K. Nanda, Petros Efstathopoulos
  • Patent number: 11124195
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for retrieving driver safety scores by passenger devices may include (i) determining that an operator of a mobile device is a passenger in a vehicle, (ii) gathering, via one or more sensors of the mobile device, identifying information about at least one of the vehicle and a current driver of the vehicle, (iii) identifying, based on the identifying information gathered by the one or more sensors of the mobile device, the current driver of the vehicle, (iv) retrieving a driver safety score for the current driver of the vehicle from a collection of driver safety scores, and (v) performing, by the mobile device, a security action in response to retrieving the driver safety score. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: NortonLifeLock Inc.
    Inventors: Lei Gu, Matt Boucher
  • Patent number: 11128473
    Abstract: The disclosed method for assuring authenticity of electronic sensor data may include (i) capturing, using a sensor within a device, electronic sensor data, and (ii) digitally signing, using a cryptoprocessor embedded within the device, the electronic sensor data to create a digital signature that verifies that the signed electronic sensor data has not been modified since the electronic sensor data was captured by the sensor. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: NortonLifeLock Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel Kats, Christopher Gates, Acar Tamersoy, Daniel Marino
  • Patent number: 11128665
    Abstract: The disclosed computer-implemented method for providing secure access to vulnerable networked devices may include identifying a vulnerable network device connected to a local network, identifying local network traffic destined for the vulnerable network device and that has been tagged as safe, passing the local network traffic tagged as safe to the vulnerable network device, and performing a security action on local network traffic destined for the vulnerable network device that has not been tagged as safe. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: NortonLifeLock Inc.
    Inventors: Ilya Sokolov, Bruce McCorkendale
  • Patent number: 11122040
    Abstract: The disclosed computer-implemented method for fingerprinting devices may include (i) detecting that a new device has attempted to connect to a network gateway, (ii) attempting to fingerprint the new device as an instance of a known candidate device type by (a) transmitting to the new device, from a security application, a set of network messages that mimic network messages that a second application is configured to transmit to instances of the known candidate device type and (b) confirming, by the security application based on a response from the new device to the set of network messages, that the new device is the instance of the known candidate device type, and (iii) performing a security action to protect a network corresponding to the network gateway based on confirming that the new device is the instance of the known candidate device type. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: NortonLifeLock Inc.
    Inventors: Yuqiong Sun, Xueqiang Wang, Susanta Nanda, Yun Shen, Pierre-Antoine Vervier, Petros Efstathopoulos
  • Patent number: 11120169
    Abstract: The disclosed computer-implemented method for identifying malware locations based on analyses of backup files may include (i) identifying a presence of a backup file set and (ii) performing a security action that may include (a) detecting, based on a scan of the backup file set, malware in the backup file set, (b) determining, based on a location of the malware in a system file structure of the backup file set, a subgraph of the system file structure of the backup file set that includes the malware, (c) identifying a string prefix for the subgraph of the system file structure of the backup file set, (d) using an index to cross-reference the string prefix to a pointer identifying a subgraph of an original file set, and (e) scanning a file in the subgraph of the original file set for the malware. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: NortonLifeLock Inc.
    Inventor: Bruce McCorkendale
  • Patent number: 11113389
    Abstract: The disclosed computer-implemented method for providing persistent visual warnings for application launchers may include (i) loading an application launcher into a sandbox, (ii) monitoring one or more functions of an application from the application launcher, (iii) querying a malware detection manager using information obtained from monitoring the functions of the application to determine whether the application is potentially harmful, and (iv) modifying, based on determining that the application is potentially harmful, an icon for the application launched from the sandbox to notify a user that the application is potentially harmful. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: NortonLifeLock Inc.
    Inventors: Jonathon Salehpour, Somard Kruayatidee, Radoslav Stanev
  • Patent number: 11113152
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for managing file backup may include (i) detecting, by a computing device, an attempt to upload a file to a backup storage, (ii) calculating a degree of difference between the file and a previous version of the file on the backup storage, (iii) comparing, by the computing device, a list of applications that have written to the file with a list of acceptable applications for the file, (iv) calculating, based on the degree of difference and the comparison of the list of applications, a change score for the file, and (v) applying, based on the change score, a backup policy to the attempt to upload the file. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: NortonLifeLock Inc.
    Inventors: Mohit Jha, Vinith Raj, Chengi Jimmy Kuo, Amitrajit Banerjee
  • Patent number: D930495
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: NortonLifeLock Inc.
    Inventors: Yun Shen, Pierre-Antoine Vervier, Petros Efstathopoulos