Patents Assigned to Telesign Corporation
  • Patent number: 12699809
    Abstract: A data deidentification system that extracts insights from user data and retains both the insights and user data in a form that complies with applicable data privacy and related standards. The system receives user data, which can include personal identifying information and other sensitive data governed by one or more standards, including standards specifying how the data can be used and how long it can be retained. From the data, the system extracts insights characterizing various aspects of the associated users. The system also selectively hashes portions of the data, obscuring the identity of associated users. Neither the insights nor the selectively hashed data identify individual users, and therefore they are not subject to the same standards and can be retained indefinitely. Later, after the standards-protected data has been discarded, the system can provide insight information in response to a request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2024
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2026
    Assignee: Telesign Corporation
    Inventors: Humberto Morales, Gordana Djankovic, Cynthia Ng
  • Patent number: 12688330
    Abstract: A data deidentification system that extracts insights from user data and retains both the insights and user data in a form that complies with applicable data privacy and related standards. The system receives user data, which can include personal identifying information and other sensitive data governed by one or more standards, including standards specifying how the data can be used and how long it can be retained. From the data, the system extracts insights characterizing various aspects of the associated users. The system also selectively hashes portions of the data, obscuring the identity of associated users. Neither the insights nor the selectively hashed data identify individual users, and therefore they are not subject to the same standards and can be retained indefinitely. Later, after the standards-protected data has been discarded, the system can provide insight information in response to a request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2024
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2026
    Assignee: Telesign Corporation
    Inventors: Humberto Morales, Gordana Djankovic, Cynthia Ng
  • Patent number: 12507068
    Abstract: Systems and methods for routing messages are disclosed herein. The methods can include maintaining, at a computing system, a plurality of completion rates, wherein each completion rate is associated with a communication network. The methods can also include receiving, from a service provider, a request to authenticate an end user of the service provider, generating an authentication message, and selecting, based on the maintained completion rates, a communication network from a plurality of communication networks. The methods can further include transmitting the authentication message to a device associated with the end user using the selected communication network, receiving an indication that the end user performed an action in response to receiving the authentication message, determining whether the end user has been authenticated based on the end user's action, and updating the maintained completion rate associated with the selected communication network based on the determination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 23, 2025
    Assignee: Telesign Corporation
    Inventors: Jelena Kocic, Aleksandar Grgic
  • Patent number: 12105848
    Abstract: A data deidentification system that extracts insights from user data, and retains both the insights and user data in a form that complies with applicable data privacy and related standards. The system receives user data, which can include personal identifying information and other sensitive data governed by one or more standards, including standards specifying how the data can be used and how long it can be retained. From the data, the system extracts insights characterizing various aspects of the associated users. The system also selectively hashes portions of the data, obscuring the identity of associated users. Neither the insights nor the selectively hashed data identify individual users, and therefore they are not subject to the same standards and can be retained indefinitely. Later, after the standards-protected data has been discarded, the system can provide insight information in response to a request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: Telesign Corporation
    Inventors: Humberto Morales, Gordana Djankovic, Cynthia Ng
  • Patent number: 12052258
    Abstract: A subscriber information authentication system that compares network-obtained and device-obtained information to verify that a device being used in connection with a user account is authenticated for that account. Certain subscriber information may be associated with the account during a registration process. In subsequent attempts to access the account, the registered subscriber information may be used in conjunction with information obtained from a telecommunication network and from a device to verify that the device is authorized. The information from the telecommunication network may be queried using Signaling System No. 7 (“SS7”) protocols. The device authorization may be performed, for example, to ensure that a device being used for device-based verification is the device a user purports it to be.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2024
    Assignee: Telesign Corporation
    Inventor: Stacy Lyn Stubblefield
  • Patent number: 12041459
    Abstract: A user authentication system that analyzes call forwarding information obtained from telecommunication networks, such as through the use of Signaling System No. 7 (“SS7”) protocols, to detect the possibility of fraud. In response to a request to access a network-accessible service, the system performs an initial authentication of provided user account credentials. The system then obtains a telecommunication subscriber identifier that is associated with the user account. Prior to performing additional device-based user authentication, the system obtains call forwarding information for the user. The obtained call forwarding information is then evaluated for potentially fraudulent call forwarding configurations. For example, call forwarding to certain call forwarding numbers, or the use of different call forwarding types, may be indicative of fraud intended to undermine further user authentication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: Telesign Corporation
    Inventors: Stacy Lyn Stubblefield, Vladimir Vujovic, Milovan Kovacevic
  • Patent number: 11853693
    Abstract: System and method for generating RCS message templates using a graphical user interface (GUI) with concurrent representative display. Templates are generated based on inputs via an input region of the GUI. Inputs can include a template name, a template type, and message content, which can include text, images, video, interactive buttons or icons, and so forth. Inputs can be static or parameterized. A representative message based on the template is concurrently displayed in a display region of the GUI. Based on the inputs, the system generates RCS message templates, such as by compiling JSON code corresponding to the user inputs and the representative display. The templates can be used to generate and send finalized RCS messages, such as text messages, rich cards, and so forth, by invoking a generated template and providing data for any parameterized fields in the template.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: Telesign Corporation
    Inventor: Ilija Zagorac
  • Patent number: 11829508
    Abstract: A user consent service that collects information on the type of data users have consented to sharing with different service providers (location information, account status, etc.), so that mobile network operators determine whether to approve or deny user information requests. The service receives information from service providers (e.g., websites, cloud services, mobile applications, and other network-accessible resources) which indicates that users have consented to the sharing of certain types of user data with those service providers. In response, the user consent service maintains records cataloging the consent received for the users, including what type of data that the users have consented to sharing with the different service providers (i.e., what pieces of data may or may not be shared with the different server providers). The service generates consent data for mobile network operators, from the records, so the mobile network operators can evaluate requests for user data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: Telesign Corporation
    Inventors: Ravishkumar M. Patel, Jelena Vujovic, Du{hacek over (s)}an Aleksandar Starinac
  • Patent number: 11514239
    Abstract: System and method for generating RCS message templates using a graphical user interface (GUI) with concurrent representative display. Templates are generated based on inputs via an input region of the GUI. Inputs can include a template name, a template type, and message content, which can include text, images, video, interactive buttons or icons, and so forth. Inputs can be static or parameterized. A representative message based on the template is concurrently displayed in a display region of the GUI. Based on the inputs, the system generates RCS message templates, such as by compiling JSON code corresponding to the user inputs and the representative display. The templates can be used to generate and send finalized RCS messages, such as text messages, rich cards, and so forth, by invoking a generated template and providing data for any parameterized fields in the template.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: Telesign Corporation
    Inventor: Ilija Zagorac
  • Patent number: 11509660
    Abstract: A subscriber information authentication system that compares network-obtained and device-obtained information to verify that a device being used in connection with a user account is authenticated for that account. Certain subscriber information may be associated with the account during a registration process. In subsequent attempts to access the account, the registered subscriber information may be used in conjunction with information obtained from a telecommunication network and from a device to verify that the device is authorized. The information from the telecommunication network may be queried using Signaling System No. 7 (“SS7”) protocols. The device authorization may be performed, for example, to ensure that a device being used for device-based verification is the device a user purports it to be.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: Telesign Corporation
    Inventor: Stacy Lyn Stubblefield
  • Patent number: 10924922
    Abstract: A user authentication system that analyzes call forwarding information obtained from telecommunication networks, such as through the use of Signaling System No. 7 (“SS7”) protocols, to detect the possibility of fraud. In response to a request to access a network-accessible service, the system performs an initial authentication of provided user account credentials. The system then obtains a telecommunication subscriber identifier that is associated with the user account. Prior to performing additional device-based user authentication, the system obtains call forwarding information for the user. The obtained call forwarding information is then evaluated for potentially fraudulent call forwarding configurations. For example, call forwarding to certain call forwarding numbers, or the use of different call forwarding types, may be indicative of fraud intended to undermine further user authentication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: TeleSign Corporation
    Inventors: Stacy Lyn Stubblefield, Vladimir Vujovic, Milovan Kovacevic
  • Patent number: 10880290
    Abstract: A comprehensive authentication and identity system and method are disclosed. A central profile is created for a user which includes user information that can be passed back or otherwise utilized by websites (e.g. for registrations, logins, etc.) The user information may include the user's username, password, contact information, personal information, marketing preferences, financial information, etc. For website registrations, the user may provide a mobile communication number that is utilized to perform a type of mobile communication device verification process. As part of a website login, the user may provide identifiable information (e.g. a username) that is looked up by the system or website to determine a mobile communication number for the user, which is used for a verification process. If the verification process is completed successfully, the user may be logged into the website. For accessing the system directly, a user may go through a mobile communication device verification process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: TeleSign Corporation
    Inventors: Darren Berkovitz, Ryan Parker Disraeli, Stacy Lyn Stubblefield
  • Patent number: 10826910
    Abstract: A frictionless multi-factor authentication system and method (“FMFA system”) that facilitates verification of the identity of a website user, registrant or applicant. The FMFA system reduces or removes the burden on the user by eliminating the additional manual second step traditionally required by two-factor authentication methods, and replacing the second step with an automated authentication step based on the location of a mobile device that is associated with the user. The FMFA system may be utilized for authenticating users to access sensitive data on online accounts, applications and websites, download files, perform online transactions, store information through websites or data stores, or the like. The FMFA system allows registration information obtained from a previously-registered user to authenticate the user on subsequent visits or logins to the website.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: TeleSign Corporation
    Inventor: Ryan Parker Disraeli
  • Patent number: 10492070
    Abstract: A user authentication system that analyzes call forwarding information obtained from telecommunication networks, such as through the use of Signaling System No. 7 (“SS7”) protocols, to detect the possibility of fraud. In response to a request to access a network-accessible service, the system performs an initial authentication of provided user account credentials. The system then obtains a telecommunication subscriber identifier that is associated with the user account. Prior to performing additional device-based user authentication, the system obtains call forwarding information for the user. The obtained call forwarding information is then evaluated for potentially fraudulent call forwarding configurations. For example, call forwarding to certain call forwarding numbers, or the use of different call forwarding types, may be indicative of fraud intended to undermine further user authentication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2019
    Assignee: TeleSign Corporation
    Inventors: Stacy Lyn Stubblefield, Vladimir Vujovic, Milovan Kovacevic
  • Patent number: 10129247
    Abstract: A behavioral characteristics authentication system and method (“BCA system”) that facilitates authentication of the identity of a user, registrant, or applicant of a website, application, or other accessible computer resource using a verification process that incorporates behavioral characteristics. In operation, the BCA system compares a single user's behavior with their previous behavior, a user's behavior with behavior generally attributed to non-fraudulent behavior, or a user's behavior with behavior generally attributed to fraudulent behavior. The population of other users that a user's behavior is compared with may be selected to have similar demographic or other characteristics as the user. By analyzing various behavioral characteristics associated with legitimate or fraudulent multi-factor authentication attempts, the BCA system adds another layer of security to online transactions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Assignee: TeleSign Corporation
    Inventor: Stacy Lyn Stubblefield
  • Patent number: 10050976
    Abstract: A frictionless multi-factor authentication system and method (“FMFA system”) that facilitates verification of the identity of a website user, registrant or applicant. The FMFA system reduces or removes the burden on the user by eliminating the additional manual second step traditionally required by two-factor authentication methods, and replacing the second step with an automated authentication step based on the location of a mobile device that is associated with the user. The FMFA system may be utilized for authenticating users to access sensitive data on online accounts, applications and websites, download files, perform online transactions, store information through websites or data stores, or the like. The FMFA system allows registration information obtained from a previously-registered user to authenticate the user on subsequent visits or logins to the website.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: TeleSign Corporation
    Inventor: Ryan Parker Disraeli
  • Patent number: 9860233
    Abstract: A comprehensive authentication and identity system and method are disclosed. A central profile is created for a user which includes user information that can be passed back or otherwise utilized by websites (e.g. for registrations, logins, etc.) The user information may include the user's username, password, contact information, personal information, marketing preferences, financial information, etc. For website registrations, the user may provide a mobile communication number that is utilized to perform a type of mobile communication device verification process. As part of a website login, the user may provide identifiable information (e.g. a username) that is looked up by the system or website to determine a mobile communication number for the user, which is used for a verification process. If the verification process is completed successfully, the user may be logged into the website. For accessing the system directly, a user may go through a mobile communication device verification process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Assignee: TeleSign Corporation
    Inventors: Darren Berkovitz, Ryan Parker Disraeli, Stacy Lyn Stubblefield
  • Patent number: 9860239
    Abstract: A behavioral characteristics authentication system and method (“BCA system”) that facilitates authentication of the identity of a user, registrant, or applicant of a website, application, or other accessible computer resource using a verification process that incorporates behavioral characteristics. In operation, the BCA system compares a single user's behavior with their previous behavior, a user's behavior with behavior generally attributed to non-fraudulent behavior, or a user's behavior with behavior generally attributed to fraudulent behavior. The population of other users that a user's behavior is compared with may be selected to have similar demographic or other characteristics as the user. By analyzing various behavioral characteristics associated with legitimate or fraudulent multi-factor authentication attempts, the BCA system adds another layer of security to online transactions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Assignee: TeleSign Corporation
    Inventor: Stacy Lyn Stubblefield
  • Patent number: 9553864
    Abstract: A verification method and system are disclosed that verify a user. The user is provided a verification code via, for example, a website, to be communicated to the system via an application on a mobile communication device. If the correct verification code is communicated by the user, the user receives via the application a verification message containing another verification code, which the user submits to a website or on-line form or to another verification system for authentication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2017
    Assignee: TeleSign Corporation
    Inventor: Steven H. Jillings
  • Publication number: 20160323450
    Abstract: A service call between a service user and a call center for a service provider is established when the service user is contacted or calls into the call center of the service provider. The service provider may request basic account information for verification of the identity of the service user. If the service provider determines that a further verification of the user's identity is necessary, the service provider may send a verification code to the service user via the user communication device. The verification code is relayed back to the service provider. The transmitted verification code and the relayed verification code are compared and if the codes match, the user is authenticated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2016
    Publication date: November 3, 2016
    Applicant: TeleSign Corporation
    Inventors: Ryan Disraeli, Paul Stovall