Patents Examined by Hosuk Song
  • Patent number: 11924334
    Abstract: A quantum neural network architecture. In one aspect, a quantum neural network trained to perform a machine learning task includes: an input quantum neural network layer comprising (i) multiple qubits prepared in an initial quantum state encoding a machine learning task data input, and (ii) a target qubit; a sequence of intermediate quantum neural network layers, each intermediate quantum neural network layer comprising multiple quantum logic gates that operate on the multiple qubits and target qubit; and an output quantum neural network layer comprising a measurement quantum gate that operates on the target qubit and provides as output data representing a solution to the machine learning task.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Hartmut Neven, Edward Henry Farhi
  • Patent number: 11914695
    Abstract: The disclosure includes a system and method in which one or more virtual resources are presented to a secure element; and the one or more virtual resources are mapped to available resources based on a model architecture for the secure element in order to provide hardware abstraction, the available physical resources varying based on the model architecture and an associated host device, the virtual resources allowing consistent interaction with the virtual resources regardless of variation in the physical resources available and their location. The hardware abstraction increases the versatility of the secure element and may contribute to the secure element's functionality. The secure element providing functionality to replace most items carried in an individual's pockets, e.g., logical and physical keys, a thumb drive, identification, credit and debit cards, etc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: PROXENSE, LLC
    Inventor: John Joseph Giobbi
  • Patent number: 11907386
    Abstract: A platform root-of-trust system includes a System Control Processor (SCP) subsystem coupled to a central processing subsystem, a BIOS subsystem, and an I/O device. In response to an initialization instruction, the SCP subsystem begins initialization operations prior to the beginning of initialization operations for the central processing subsystem, the BIOS subsystem, and the I/O device. As part of SCP initialization operations, the SCP subsystem validates SCP subsystem initialization information to provide validated SCP subsystem initialization information, and uses the validated SCP subsystem initialization information to complete the SCP initialization operations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Mukund P. Khatri, Robert W. Hormuth, Jimmy D. Pike, Gaurav Chawla, William Price Dawkins, Elie Jreij, Mark Steven Sanders, Walter A. O'Brien, III
  • Patent number: 11899831
    Abstract: Examples described herein relate to a method for managing hardware changes at an enclosure and a server. The enclosure includes a server and multiple hardware devices connected to the enclosure. A chassis manager in the enclosure is communicatively coupled to a manageability controller of the server and the multiple hardware devices. On enabling tamper detection, the manageability controller and the chassis manager monitor the hardware devices for determining changes in the hardware devices. A change in a hardware device is compared with a permissible hardware change to determine whether the change in the hardware device is unauthorized. The permissible hardware changes include changes in hardware devices that are permitted by a customer. Security actions are performed at the server and the enclosure if unauthorized changes in the hardware device are detected by the manageability controller and chassis manager.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP
    Inventors: Bharath Ramesh, Justin York
  • Patent number: 11888873
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided to generate an attack surface for a protected entity. The method an include receiving identifying information associated with the protected entity; scanning one or more third parties to identify a host associated with the protected entity; determining that the host resolves to a webpage; resolving the webpage; extracting a uniform resource locator (URL) from the resolved webpage; determining, based on at least one rule, that the URL is associated with the protected entity; and generating the attack surface for the protected entity, the attack surface comprising the URL.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: ZeroFOX, Inc.
    Inventors: Jason Emile Sumpter, James Christopher Foster, Michael Morgan Price
  • Patent number: 11886558
    Abstract: Methods and systems for authenticating users based on contextual data in a privacy preserving way are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: OneSpan North America Inc.
    Inventor: Pradip Mainali
  • Patent number: 11888824
    Abstract: An end-to-end group messaging method or apparatus organizes a plurality of local groups of members into local-group (LG) trees and a public-group (PG) tree. Each tree has a plurality of nodes including a root node connecting to a plurality of leaf nodes. Each LG tree corresponds to a local group. Each member of a local group is associated with a leaf node of the corresponding LG tree. Each LG tree is associated with a leaf node of the PG tree. Members of a same local group may establish communication therebetween by using a group key associated with the root node of the LG tree of the local group. Members of all local groups may establish communication therebetween by using a group key associated with the root node of the PG tree.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Mohamed Tolba, Ahmed Abdelkhalek, Teng Wu
  • Patent number: 11882452
    Abstract: A system includes a database, a sensor, and a hardware processor communicatively coupled to the sensor. The database stores an identifier assigned to a mobile device. The presence of the identifier in the database indicates that a user of the mobile device is associated with a security breach. The mobile device is configured to transmit the identifier over a wireless network. The sensor has a range and is configured to obtain the identifier transmitted by the mobile device when the mobile device is located within the range. The hardware processor receives the identifier from the sensor. The processor also determines that the identifier is stored in the database. In response to determining that the identifier is stored in the database, the processor initiates a security protocol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: Bank of America Corporation
    Inventor: Kevin P. Thomsen
  • Patent number: 11880439
    Abstract: User verification using a mobile interaction can include receiving interaction data associated with a user of an application operating on a mobile device, the interaction data is generated during an interactive session of the user with the application on the mobile device. A plurality of features are extracted from the interaction data and one or more feature vectors are generated from the plurality of features. The plurality of features are aggregated to the one or more feature vectors and embedded within each feature vector. The embedded plurality of features are then projected to a global feature space by comparing a history of interactive sessions associated with the user and a history of interactive sessions associated with a plurality of different users for generating a global training dataset. Finally, a verification model is generated as a global binary classification model using the global training dataset.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Matan Levi, Itay Hazan
  • Patent number: 11876795
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention are directed to systems, methods, and computer program products for enhanced secure resource transmissions based on image capture via a resource processing terminal device. The invention provides a secure platform for transformation and structuring of resource data at a resource instrument device, and authentication of resource data, prior to initiation of a resource activity at the resource processing terminal device. Specifically, the invention is structured to construct an authorized credential element for processing of a resource activity at a first time interval prior to initiation of the resource activity. The invention is structured to execute a first resource processing activity at a subsequent time interval using the first authorized credential element, upon determining that the authorized credential element is compatible with the activity, and that the authorized credential element is pre-authenticated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Charles Russell Kendall, Richard C. Clow, II
  • Patent number: 11868491
    Abstract: An example described herein may involve receiving a temperature measurement associated with an input component, wherein the temperature measurement is received from a temperature sensor, and wherein the temperature measurement indicates a temperature of an input element of the input component; determining that the temperature of the input element satisfies a threshold temperature; and causing an infrared element to emit infrared light in association with a position of the input component. While the infrared element is emitting the infrared light, capture information associated with a user interacting with the input component may be obfuscated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Capital One Services, LLC
    Inventors: Jeremy Goodsitt, Austin Walters, Reza Farivar
  • Patent number: 11863676
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for generating NFTs from user-specific products and data, the apparatus including at least a processor, a memory communicatively connected to the at least processor, wherein the memory containing instructions configuring the at least processor to receive a data collection from a user, wherein the data collection comprising a plurality of user-specific data objects, assess a plurality of user categories as a function of the data collection, identify a value function as a function of the plurality of user-specific data objects and the plurality of user categories, optimize the value function to generate a ranked plurality of user-specific data objects, generate a recommendation for the NFT as a function of the ranked plurality of user-specific data objects, and generate the NFT as a function of the recommendation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Inventor: Linda Lee Richter
  • Patent number: 11863581
    Abstract: A computerized method is described for authenticating access to a subscription-based service to detect an attempted cyber-attack. More specifically, service policy level information is received by a cloud broker. The service policy level information includes an identifier of a sensor operating as a source of one or more objects for analysis and an identifier assigned to a customer associated with the sensor. Thereafter, a cluster of a plurality of clusters is selected by the cloud broker. The cloud broker is configured to (i) analyze whether one or more objects are associated with an attempted cyber-attack by at least analyzing the sensor identifier to select the cluster based on at least a geographical location of the sensor determined by the sensor identifier and (ii) establish a communication session between the sensor and the cluster via the cloud broker until termination of the communication session.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Musarubra US LLC
    Inventors: Mumtaz Siddiqui, Manju Radhakrishnan
  • Patent number: 11863562
    Abstract: Techniques for a service provider network to authenticate client devices and determine authorizations for users by sending requests for information in remotely managed user directories. The service provider network may provide computing infrastructure to service requests from users who have accounts with a subscriber of the service provider network. The subscriber may maintain user information for the various user accounts usable to authenticate client devices and/or determine authorizations of users. The service provider network may receive a request from a client device to execute a workflow for a service of the subscriber that is supported by resources of the service provider network. The service provider network may send a request to a subscriber device for user account information for authentication and determining authorization.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Wayne Mesard, Kevin Sellers, Justin Schoeff, John M. Jamail
  • Patent number: 11853897
    Abstract: Bounding box quantization can reduce the quantity of bits utilized to express numerical values prior to the multiplication of matrices comprised of such numerical values, thereby reducing both memory consumption and processor utilization. Stochastic rounding can provide sufficient precision to enable the storage of weight values in reduced-precision formats without having to separately store weight values in a full-precision format. Alternatively, other rounding mechanisms, such as round to nearest, can be utilized to exchange weight values in reduced-precision formats, while also storing weight values in full-precision formats for subsequent updating. To facilitate conversion, reduced-precision formats such as brain floating-point format can be utilized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Taesik Na, Daniel Lo, Haishan Zhu, Eric Sen Chung
  • Patent number: 11848938
    Abstract: In accordance with one or more embodiments, aspects of the disclosure provide efficient, effective, and convenient ways of uploading and authenticating content. In particular, a user device may receive validating information from a wireless networking device. The user or client device may record a content item, and may insert a validation tag based on the validating information. The user or client device may then send the content item to the wireless networking device. The wireless networking device may receive the content item at a first location and may determine the validity of the content item based on the validating information. The user device may continually interact with wireless networking devices as it travels to continually upload content items while establishing the validity of the time and location of the content items.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
    Inventors: Joseph Badro, Yasser F. Syed, Donald J. Wester
  • Patent number: 11841954
    Abstract: Systems and methods of generating a threat model from a code file are defined. The system includes one or more data stores communicatively coupled with a processor, and storing information on a plurality of properties to be configured for one or more resources included in the code file and a plurality of security threats associated with one or more values of the plurality of properties. The system analyzes the code file to identify one or more properties associated with the one or more resources included in the code file. For each property, a value for the property defined in the code file is identified, one or more security threats are determined based on the identified value for the property, using the information stored in the data stores. The system generates a threat model for the one or more resources based on the determined one or more security threats.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: THREATMODELER SOFTWARE INC.
    Inventor: Anuraag Agarwwal
  • Patent number: 11843705
    Abstract: The disclosed technology is generally directed to embedded device updates. In one example of the technology, a request for a nonce from a device is received. The nonce is sent in response to the request. An authentication request that includes the nonce, a set of measurements associated with the device, and a cryptographic signature generated from a private key associated with the device is received. The device is validated based on the authentication request. In response to successful validation of the device, a short-term certificate is generated for the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Ryan J. Fairfax, Felix Stefan Domke
  • Patent number: 11841930
    Abstract: A technique for verifying an origin of a digital object in a digital object architecture is described. The technique includes the steps of receiving, from a handle registry, handle information for a digital object that includes an attestation that references the handle identification value for the handle and origin identification information; verifying the authenticity of the attestation; after verifying the authenticity of the attestation, using the origin information in determining authorizations applicable to the digital object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: Verisign, Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew Fregly, Najmehalsadat Miramirkhani, Swapneel Sheth
  • Patent number: 11836794
    Abstract: A method is provided that comprises collecting financial data points and normalizing the data points into a time series. The time series is merged into aggregates according to sliding windows that comprise different time periods and a sliding step increment. A periodic change in an increasing and convex transformation is computed for each aggregate, and multi-dimensional time-delayed coordinate embedding is applied to each aggregate. The sliding windows are applied to the time-delayed aggregates, and time series of variances and point clouds are derived within each sliding window. Persistence homologies and time series norms are computed for the point clouds, and the time series norms are correlated with the time series of variances. A warning of an impending financial crisis is output if the correlation of the time series norms with the time series of variances exceeds a predefined threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: S&P Global Inc.
    Inventors: Yuri Katz, Alain Biem