Patents Examined by Rodney E. Haven
  • Patent number: 11232179
    Abstract: In non-limiting examples of the present disclosure, systems, methods and devices for providing cross-device access to group features are presented. A facial image input may be received from a user. A determination may be made that the user is not associated with a group having access to one or more sets of features accessible from the device. An authorization request may be sent to an owner account associated with the device for adding the user to the group. A request to add the user to the group may be received via the authorization request. The user may be added to the group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Kiran Phani Kaja, Ashutosh Kumar, Michael Thomas McLean, Arjun Kumar Kalluri, Nathaniel Trent Potter
  • Patent number: 11176272
    Abstract: Methods, systems, articles of manufacture and apparatus to privatize consumer data are disclosed. A disclosed example apparatus includes a consumer data acquirer to collect original data corresponding to (a) confidential information associated with consumers and (b) behavior information associated with the consumers, and a data obfuscator. The data obfuscator is to determine a degree to which the original data is to be obfuscated and a type of obfuscation to be applied to the original data based on the original data, generate obfuscation adjustments of the original data based on the degree and the type, and generate an obfuscation model based on the obfuscation adjustments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: The Nielsen Company (US), LLC
    Inventors: Bruce C. Richardson, Shixiao Li, Martin Quinn, Michael R. Smith
  • Patent number: 11165568
    Abstract: Systems and methods for secure electronic data transfer utilizing an ephemeral key for encryption and decryption of data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: KnectIQ Inc.
    Inventors: Shailendra Jain, Andrew Lunstad, Kenneth Morris
  • Patent number: 11122053
    Abstract: An example method for assigning rights to utilize cloud resources associated with a service provider's computing hardware is provided. The example method can include defining a rights package including multiple rights pertaining to utilization of the cloud resources. The rights package can be assigned across multiple tenants of the service provider. The example method can also include defining a global role that includes potential rights, where the global role is assignable to individual tenant users of the tenant. The global roles can be made available to multiple tenants using the service provider. The method can further include provisioning filtered rights to utilize the cloud resources to a tenant user of the tenant, the tenant user being assigned the global role. The filtered rights can include rights present in both the potential rights defined for the global role and the rights defined for the rights package.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: VMWARE, INC.
    Inventors: Jeff Moroski, Ron Passerini, John Kilroy
  • Patent number: 11062033
    Abstract: The disclosure herein describes verifying integrity of security policies on a client device. Policy data sets associated with security applications of virtual machines on the client device are received from a server and stored on the client device. An integrity verifier on the client device receives verified checksums from the server, wherein the verified checksums are associated with the policy data sets. Client-side checksums are generated by the integrity verifier based on the stored policy data sets. Upon generating the client-side checksums, the integrity verifier compares the verified checksums to the generated client-side checksums. Based on the comparison indicating that a verified checksum and a client-side checksum differ, the integrity verifier generates a checksum failure indicator, wherein the client device is configured to take corrective measures to restore integrity of the virtual machines based on the checksum failure indicator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: VMware, Inc.
    Inventors: Alok Nemchand Kataria, Sachin Shinde, Achindra Bhatnagar