Patents Examined by Ghodrat Jamshidi
  • Patent number: 11550931
    Abstract: A process for centralized user file encapsulation, encryption, notarization and verification using a blockchain and a system that certifies data in a proprietary “capsule” file format, with tamper-proof blockchain are disclosed. By utilizing a hybridization of both cloud and blockchain storage mechanisms, the present invention allows for the performant and cost-effective certification of large amounts of data. Furthermore, the generation of the capsule allows for users to store both the data payload and its digital notarization. The system then allows for users to share the capsule with others (by way of permissions enforced by the notary system) and upload it for verification of authenticity at a later point in time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: Galena Hills Inc.
    Inventors: Dimitre Ognianov Dintchev, Stuart L Corrans, Matt Turrino
  • Patent number: 11539672
    Abstract: A network device communication system can configure network devices (e.g., a primary and secondary database) to send and receive sequences messages, such as replication data, over a channel comprising a plurality of private network nodes. The messages can be generated and encrypted using one or more key pairs and changing wrapping replication keys to send and receive the messages between different types of database deployments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: Snowflake Inc.
    Inventors: Robert Bengt Benedikt Gernhardt, Mikhail Kazhamiaka, Eric Robinson, Rodney Weaver
  • Patent number: 11537731
    Abstract: The system may include a method comprising requesting, by a computer, a receiver identifier associated with a receiver; receiving, by the computer, the receiver identifier in association with content; constructing, by the computer, a URL link comprising access to DICOM viewer code, DICOM data for the selected images, a sender identifier and the receiver identifier; generating, by the computer, a notification to the receiver, wherein the notification includes the URL link; and transmitting, by the computer, the notification to a receiver based on the receiver identifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: MYMEDICALIMAGES.COM, LLC
    Inventor: Troy Berg
  • Patent number: 11528144
    Abstract: A method including transmitting, by a processor associated with a user device, a request to determine a signature key; receiving, by the processor, a unique identifier associated with the signature key; authenticating, by the processor, received biometric information; selectively transmitting, by the processor based at least in part on a result of authenticating the biometric information, a signature request that includes the unique identifier in association with validation data to indicate that the signature key, associated with the unique identifier, is to be utilized to sign the validation data; and receiving, by the processor, signed validation data that is signed based at least in part on utilizing the signature key. Various other aspects are contemplated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: UAB 360 IT
    Inventor: Mindaugas Valkaitis
  • Patent number: 11528148
    Abstract: An example method of performing interactive videogame verification using cryptographically protected transaction records includes: receiving, by a videogame server, from a first videogame client device, a first transaction record reflecting a first set of events associated with an interactive videogame session, wherein the first transaction record is cryptographically signed by a first private cryptographic key associated with the first videogame client device; receiving, from a second videogame client device, a second transaction record reflecting a second set of events associated with the interactive videogame session, wherein the second transaction record is cryptographically signed by a second private cryptographic key associated with the second videogame client device; and validating the first transaction record based on the second transaction record.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: Electronic Arts Inc.
    Inventor: Erez Maharshak
  • Patent number: 11528266
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for performing authentication using biometric authentication processing at a portable terminal connected to a multifunction peripheral (MFP) is provided. A web application accesses the portable terminal via a web browser of the MFP and the MFP transmits a request for information about service to the portable terminal. In a case where information corresponding to the web application is included in the information about service received from the portable terminal responsive to the request, the MFP transmits an authentication request to the portable terminal according to a request from the web application, and transmits, to the web application, an authentication result received from the portable terminal responsive to the authentication request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Tetsuya Sato
  • Patent number: 11522715
    Abstract: Embodiments described herein provide a computer-implemented method of creating a digest of a document. The document to be processed and analysed may be a physical document, or it may already be in a digital form. In the case of starting from a physical document, the document is first scanned, so as to obtain an image of the document. The digital document is then processed using an algorithm or function to obtain one or more datasets comprising a plurality of position independent values. Each of the datasets may correspond to a different line of text or field of text within the document. The one or more datasets are then encoded, the encoded data being used to generate a digest associated with the document, and wherein the digest comprises a plurality of short hashes corresponding to each dataset. The generated digest can then be used to print a digital signature on the document, which can be used to later verify the authenticity of the document or a copy thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: Ordnance Survey Limited
    Inventor: David Stow
  • Patent number: 11522711
    Abstract: A system for providing secure authentication between a service provider and at least one user device having a storage. The system having a processor managed by the service provider, which processor manages authentication between the at least one device and the service provider. The processor is configured to generate a block including at least user account information upon receipt of an authentication request from the at least one device; apply a cryptographic hash function to the block to create a hash; transmit the hash to the at least one device for storage in the memory of the at least one device; and upon receipt of the hash, validate the hash prior to providing access to the service provider.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: Secureworks Corp.
    Inventor: Thomas Clements
  • Patent number: 11516017
    Abstract: An endpoint for trusted fabrication, the endpoint including at least one secure controller configured for connection to a wide area network; and at least one untrusted controller configured for local communication, wherein the endpoint is configured for connection to a fabricator and further configured to receive digitally-signed data specifying at least one item for manufacture; verify the digitally-signed data; and direct the fabricator to manufacture the at least one item after verifying the digitally signed data. A method for trusted on-demand manufacturing, the method including receiving, at an endpoint connected to a fabricator, digitally signed data describing at least one item for manufacture; verifying, at the endpoint, the digitally signed data; and manufacturing the at least one item using the digitally signed data after verifying the digitally signed data, wherein the endpoint comprises at least one secure controller and at least one untrusted controller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: AURA Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Alex Blate, Eric Strong, Garrett Goss, Douglas Bennett, Mark Maxwell
  • Patent number: 11514365
    Abstract: Embodiments are directed to immutable watermarking for authenticating and verifying artificial intelligence (AI)-generated output. An embodiment of a system includes a hardware accelerator to perform processing related to a machine learning (ML) model and one or more processors including a hash generator. In one implementation, the hash generator is to identify a global unique identifier (GUID) for the ML model, generate a digital signature for content generated by an inference stage of the ML model, the digital signature based on at least the GUID of the ML model and the content generated by the ML model, and transmit the content and the digital signature to a content consumer platform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: INTEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ria Cheruvu, Anahit Tarkhanyan
  • Patent number: 11516016
    Abstract: A system and method for signing and authenticating electronic documents using public key cryptography applied by one or more server computer clusters operated in a trustworthy manner, which may act in cooperation with trusted components controlled and operated by the signer. The system employs a presentation authority for presenting an unsigned copy of an electronic document to a signing party and a signature authority for controlling a process for affixing an electronic signature to the unsigned document to create a signed electronic document. The system provides an applet for a signing party's computer that communicates with the signature authority.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: Signix, Inc.
    Inventor: Robert T. Oswalt
  • Patent number: 11509634
    Abstract: Systems and methods for secure messaging and automation are disclosed herein. An example method includes providing, by an application server layer, a user-facing application that accesses a data retention system and a predictive analytics system through a web services layer, the user-facing application being secured through use of a security token cached on a web browser that provides the user-facing application, establishing a security protocol or security token utilized between the application server layer and the web services layer that is different from the security token cached on the web browser; and performing asynchronous processing based on user interaction with a goal-based planning application that processes data from a plurality of user accounts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: BrightPlan LLC
    Inventors: Marthin De Beer, Larry Robinson, Krutarth Shah, Harpreet Buttar
  • Patent number: 11509489
    Abstract: A covert channel construction method in a blockchain network includes: sharing, by a first terminal and a second terminal, a secret key and transaction information, and generating a blockchain network address by using the secret key and a standard public key address generation algorithm, wherein the transaction information comprises a permutation mapping table and an information capacity of a single transaction; sending, by the first terminal, information by using an information hiding method, and performing simultaneously, by the first terminal and the second terminal, transaction recording; and monitoring, by the first terminal and the second terminal, whether an account transaction of the blockchain network address exists in a blockchain, if yes, extracting, by the second terminal, the information by using an information extraction method, and after extracting the information, replying to the information by using the information hiding method, thereby enabling communication parties to safely transmit infor
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Yanjiao Chen, Wenyuan Xu, Xu Wang
  • Patent number: 11498805
    Abstract: A blockchain maintenance record system for managing maintenance records of a system, the blockchain maintenance record system including: a part identification tag configured to be located on a part; an application operable through a mobile computing device, the mobile computing device being configured to read the part identification tag, wherein the application is configured to perform operations including; determining a part identity of the part by reading the part identification tag; detecting a location of the system; organizing the part identity of the part and the location of the part into a maintenance data package receipt; and uploading the maintenance data package receipt into a blockchain network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: OTIS ELEVATOR COMPANY
    Inventors: Devu Manikantan Shila, Adriaan Larmuseau
  • Patent number: 11502850
    Abstract: A server apparatus is capable of communicating with a client terminal. The client terminal transmits first information to a second server, receives a digital signature from the second server, and transmits the digital signature together with the first information to the server apparatus. The second server generates the digital signature based on the first information. The server apparatus includes a controller configured to receive the first information and the digital signature from the client terminal, determine whether or not the first information is valid based on the first information and the digital signature received; and, transmit second information to the client terminal when the first information is valid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Ryo Nimura
  • Patent number: 11502847
    Abstract: Techniques and apparatus for ion source devices with minimized post-column volumes are described. In one embodiment, for example, an apparatus may include at least one memory, and logic coupled to the at least one memory. The logic may be configured to receive analytical information from at least one analytical instrument, and generate at least one record in a distributed ledger having a transaction associated with at least a portion of the analytical information. Other embodiments are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: WATERS TECHNOLOGIES IRELAND LIMITED
    Inventors: Phillip Young, Richard Chapman, Simon Meffan-Main
  • Patent number: 11496319
    Abstract: A method of identity authentication for VoIP call, used for a first communication device supporting SIP and blockchain transmission technology, the method comprising: requesting an identity signature from a second communication device during a SIP call establishment, receiving the identity signature transmitted by the second communication device, wherein the identity signature is generated by the second communication device according to a private key, querying a public key corresponding to the identity signature from a blockchain server, utilizing the public key to verify the identity signature when obtaining the public key from the blockchain server, so as to generate a verification result, and determining to continue or terminate the SIP call establishment based on the verification result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: ACER INCORPORATED
    Inventor: Geng-Bao Lin
  • Patent number: 11481684
    Abstract: A system and method for batched, supervised, in-situ machine learning classifier retraining for malware identification and model heterogeneity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: BLUVECTOR, INC.
    Inventors: Scott B. Miserendino, Robert H. Klein, Ryan V. Peters, Peter E. Kaloroumakis
  • Patent number: 11481678
    Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosure relate to learning new watermark algorithms for artificial intelligence (AI) models for a data processing (DP) accelerator. In one embodiment, a system trains a watermark algorithm based on a predetermined set of criteria, where the watermark algorithm is trained to generate variations of the watermark algorithm. The system configures the watermark unit at runtime with a variation of the watermark algorithm for the watermark algorithm to be used by the DP accelerator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignees: BAIDU USA LLC, KUNLUNXIN TECHNOLOGY (BEIJING) COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Yueqiang Cheng, Yong Liu
  • Patent number: 11481518
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a computer-implemented method for the signed registration of a file, preferably a PDF-based document, by a user in a blockchain, said method comprising the steps of: (a) receiving said file from said user; (b) processing said file and calculating a hash for said file, said step (b) comprising the sub-steps (b.i) processing said file by creating and/or revising a file identifier comprised in said file so that it is unique with respect to the blockchain, obtaining a uniquely identified file; (b.ii) calculating the hash of said uniquely identified file comprising said file identifier with a cryptographic hash function; (b.iii) optionally, determining if the hash obtained in step (b.ii) is unique with respect to the blockchain and if so, ending step (b); if not, resuming from step (b.i); (c) establishing a file reference taking into account said hash; and (d) registering said file reference in the blockchain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: ITEXT GROUP NV
    Inventor: Bruno Lowagie