Patents Examined by Samuel Ambaye
  • Patent number: 11856400
    Abstract: A routing device and an unauthorized communication coping device are provided. The routing device is a device that performs routing of a packet in conformance with a wireless communication protocol in a wireless communication section which is a communication section that connects a base station and a core network device, and the routing device performs network tapping on a packet as a routing target and transmits the network-tapped packet to the unauthorized communication detection device (the device that performs unauthorized communication determination which is determination of whether or not communication is unauthorized communication based on a packet).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kantaro Miyake, Masayuki Takase, Takaaki Suzuki, Joe Ogasawara
  • Patent number: 11843951
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to improved systems and methods for providing and using wearable electronic accessories. A wearable electronic necklace accessory can include a support structure that permits the wearable electronic accessory to be worn in a user's neck region. The wearable electronic necklace accessory can include an electronic pendant coupled to the support structure, the electronic pendant can comprise a housing that includes a first wall, a second wall, and one or more side walls configured to couple the first wall to the second wall. The wearable electronic necklace accessory can include a display device and an audio device positioned within the pendant housing and configured to output electronic media and audio content. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: AUDEO LLC
    Inventors: Carolyn Ann Bankston, Jordan Gardinal
  • Patent number: 11838759
    Abstract: A method for performing service authorization for private networks based on an enhanced PLMN identifier. The method includes receiving an attach request from a user equipment device (UE) via a private network, where the attach request includes an international mobile subscriber identity value (IMSI). The method further includes determining, based on the IMSI, an organization identifier and a token associated with the private network, where the token is included in an enhanced PLMN for granting the UE access to resources in the private network. The method further includes sending the token to the UE and a network proxy within the private network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Sagiv Draznin, Patricia R. Chang, Lalit R. Kotecha, Jin Yang
  • Patent number: 11838758
    Abstract: A system described herein may use automated techniques to verify network connection integrity and provide visual indicators of connection validity or invalidity. The system may generate a unique identifier related to a user and/or web resource during an initial use. The unique identifier may be utilized to transform a secure image and store the transformed image. Upon subsequent use of the web resource, a visit identifier may be generated and utilized to perform an inverse transformation of the transformed image and display the result, where the resulting image will be the same as the secure image if the visit identifier matches the unique identifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Bruno Mendez, Manuel Enrique Caceres, Mauricio Pati Caldeira de Andrada
  • Patent number: 11831652
    Abstract: Methods, apparatuses, or computer program products according to the present disclosure provide for service permissions scaling. In example embodiments, an apparatus receives a service request from an edge server. The apparatus may generate an authorization token based at least in part on a permissions data vector, where the authorization token is configured for access by one or more computing devices to determine whether to grant access by a first computing device associated with the requesting entity identifier to one or more resources associated with the one or more computing devices. The apparatus may then transmit the authorization token to the edge server. According to some embodiments, the authorization token may be configured for storing in an authorization token cache. In some embodiments, the authorization token may be retrieved from the authorization token cache.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignees: ATLASSIAN PTY LTD., ATLASSIAN US, INC.
    Inventors: Mikhael Harswanto Tanutama, Vishal Pandey
  • Patent number: 11832098
    Abstract: A vehicle communication system, including plural control devices configured to carry out communication with one another, wherein a transmitting device and a receiving device each include a memory and a processor. The processor at the transmitting device generates first authentication information based on a message and the encryption key, and in a case in which there is an abnormality at the encryption key, transmits the predetermined authentication information and the message to the receiving device. The processor at the receiving device generates second authentication information based on the encryption key and the received message, collates the first authentication information and the second authentication information, and authenticates the message, and in a case in which, after starting-up of the receiving device, authentication has not succeeded even once, and the received first authentication information and the predetermined authentication information match, accepts the received message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Masahide Banno
  • Patent number: 11824846
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus are disclosed for facilitating online storage of files (e.g., audio tracks, video, etc.) for playback/access or sale/exchange by the owners of the files without violating copyrights that copyright holders have in the files. For example, by providing a playback service that does not store additional versions of an audio file when the file is transmitted to, and immediately played on, a user device without buffering, the present invention avoids violating copyright laws by not making copies of the file. Numerous other aspects are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: CFPH, LLC
    Inventors: Howard W. Lutnick, Dean P. Alderucci
  • Patent number: 11805416
    Abstract: A method for communicating over a wireless network includes broadcasting, by a Multi-Link Device (MLD) device, service data indicative of one or more services for wireless communication with a client device; wherein the service data indicates that a service type is differentiated based on a type of the client device; establishing a security association with the client device; and in response to establishing a security association with the client device, granting access by the client device to a subset of the one or more services based on the type of the client device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Yong Liu, Jinjing Jiang, Jarkko Lauri Sakari Kneckt, Tianyu Wu, Qi Wang, Lochan Verma, Su Khiong Yong
  • Patent number: 11805419
    Abstract: A system and method for automatically connecting an accessory with a host device are disclosed. The accessory may include a private key and a public key, wherein the public key is associated with an account. The same account may be associated with the host device. The accessory may transmit an encrypted message, including a key, to the host device, wherein the key may be the public key. Upon decryption and validation of the key, the accessory and host device may automatically connect via short-range wireless pairing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventor: Vitali Lovich
  • Patent number: 11800352
    Abstract: A vehicle information remote retrieval method includes an emergency personnel or first responder vehicle (FRV) establishing a vehicle connection between an infotainment system of a vehicle and the FRV. The FRV sends a vehicle information request to the infotainment system of the vehicle, via the vehicle connection, seeking release of vehicle information. The FRV obtains authentication of the vehicle information received in response to the vehicle information request. The FRV determines occupant status based on the vehicle information. The FRV communicates the passenger status to a first responder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: The Government of the United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of Homeland Security
    Inventors: Daniel A Boyd, Kelli L. Biegger, Chang Ellison, Brandon P. Gutierrez, Jason Lim, William Washington
  • Patent number: 11792206
    Abstract: A connection management apparatus of a relay system specifies, when terminal identification information for identifying a target terminal is acquired from a client terminal, a first relay apparatus that relays communication, and specifies connecting information for the client terminal to connect to the first relay apparatus. The connection management apparatus stores the specified connecting information and the terminal identification information in a storage in association with each other, and notifies the client terminal of the specified connecting information. When the specified first relay apparatus receives access based on the connecting information from the client terminal, the specified first relay apparatus relays the communication between the client terminal and the target terminal on the basis of the terminal identification information associated with the connecting information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: SORACOM, INC.
    Inventors: Kenta Yasukawa, Motokatsu Matsui, Taiki Kawakami
  • Patent number: 11778458
    Abstract: Embodiments of the prevent invention provide a network access authentication method and device. The method comprises: receiving an authentication request message sent by a first serving network, wherein the authentication request message carries a user equipment pseudonym identifier generated by a user equipment; determining whether a local user equipment pseudonym identifier is asynchronous with the user equipment pseudonym identifier generated by the user equipment; and obtaining, if the determination result is yes, an encrypted international mobile subscriber identity (IMSI) to carry out network access authentication on the user equipment. The embodiments of the present invention can solve the problem that a network access process in the related art does not provide a processing method for the case where the user equipment pseudonym identifier in the user equipment is asynchronous with the user equipment pseudonym identifier in a home network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: ZTE Corporation
    Inventors: Shilin You, Hongjun Liu, Jiyan Cai, Zaifeng Zong, Jin Peng, Zhaoji Lin, Yunyin Zhang
  • Patent number: 11775673
    Abstract: Using physiological cues to measure data sensitivity and implement security on a user device. The method may include obtaining data associated with a first physiological state of a user engaged in a first activity on a user device, obtaining data associated with a second physiological state of the user engaged in a second activity on the user device, where the second activity is determined to be more sensitive to the user than the first activity, and where the second physiological state indicates the user's emotional response to the second activity, and implementing a security action on the user device based on the second physiological state of the user engaged in the second activity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: GEN DIGITAL INC.
    Inventors: Saurabh Shintre, Darren Shou
  • Patent number: 11770361
    Abstract: Techniques for Cobalt Strike Beacon HTTP C2 heuristic detection are disclosed. In some embodiments, a system/process/computer program product for Cobalt Strike Beacon HTTP C2 heuristic detection includes monitoring HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP) network traffic at a firewall; prefiltering the monitored HTTP network traffic at the firewall to select a subset of the HTTP network traffic to forward to a cloud security service; determining whether the subset of the HTTP network traffic is associated with Cobalt Strike Beacon HTTP C2 traffic activity based on a plurality of heuristics; and performing an action in response to detecting the Cobalt Strike Beacon HTTP C2 traffic activity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: Palo Alto Networks, Inc.
    Inventors: Yanhui Jia, Christian Elihu Navarrete Discua, Durgesh Madhavrao Sangvikar, Ajaya Neupane, Yu Fu, Shengming Xu
  • Patent number: 11743030
    Abstract: Systems and methods that may implement an Oracle-aided protocol for producing and using FHE encrypted data. The systems and methods may initially encrypt and store input data in one encrypted form that is not performed using FHE, which does not substantially increase the size of the data and storage resources required to store the encrypted data. In accordance with the Oracle-aided protocol, the encrypted data is re-encrypted as FHE encrypted data when FHE encrypted data is required.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Inventors: Margarita Vald, Laetitia Kahn, Boaz Sapir, Yaron Sheffer, Yehezkel Shraga Resheff
  • Patent number: 11734427
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and processing devices for aiding with cyber intrusion investigations that includes capabilities for extracting data from a specified range of a volatile memory of a target processing device, reconstructing data structures and artifacts from the extracted data; and generating and presenting a visualization of the reconstructed data structures and the reconstructed artifacts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: Volexity, Inc.
    Inventors: Aaron Walters, Michael Ligh, Steven Adair
  • Patent number: 11736941
    Abstract: An illustrative embodiment disclosed herein is a non-transitory computer readable medium. In some aspects, the non-transitory computer readable medium includes instructions for providing a mobile user monitoring solution that, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to capture a transaction transmitted over an N12 interface, extract, from the transaction, one of an expected response (XRES) or an authentication token (AUTN), a user identifier (ID), and a cipher key, capture a first message transmitted over an N1 interface, and determine that the first message is associated with the user ID and the cipher key extracted from the transaction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: NetScout Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Tauras Liubinskas, Subappriya Muthuchamy, Sandeep Prasad, Abhishek Saraswati, Alessandro Pinelli, Pritish Vijay Aherrao, Loreto Di Resta, Brandon Bass
  • Patent number: 11722465
    Abstract: Methods, systems, computer-readable media, and apparatuses may provide password encryption for hybrid cloud services. A workspace cloud connector internally residing with an entity may intercept user credentials associated with an internal application being transmitted to an external cloud service. The workspace cloud connector may generate an encryption key and encrypt the user credentials via a reversible encryption methodology. The workspace cloud connector may encrypt the encryption key using an irreversible encryption methodology (e.g., use a hashing function to produce a first hash). The workspace cloud connector may transmit the encrypted user credentials and the first hash to a virtual delivery agent via a first path (e.g., via the external cloud service). In response, the workspace cloud connector may receive an address of the virtual delivery agent and, using the address, may send the encryption key to the virtual delivery agent via a second path different from the first path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Inventors: Leo C. Singleton, IV, Andy Cooper
  • Patent number: 11716336
    Abstract: Systems and methods for end to end encryption are provided. In example embodiments, a computer accesses an image including a geometric shape. The computer determines that the accessed image includes a candidate shape inside the geometric shape. The computer determines, using the candidate shape, an orientation of the geometric shape. The computer determines a public key of a communication partner device by decoding, based on the determined orientation, data encoded within the geometric shape. The computer receives a message. The computer verifies, based on the public key of the communication partner device, whether the message is from the communication partner device. The computer provides an output including the message and an indication of the communication partner device if the message is verified to be from the communication partner device. The computer provides an output indicating an error if the message is not verified to be from the communication partner device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventor: Subhash Sankuratripati
  • Patent number: 11716312
    Abstract: The present invention is a system and method for machine-to-machine communication in a Zero Trust environment, through the use of repeated, dynamic, and automated transformation and manipulation of strings of printable or typeable characters that are commonly used for passwords, PINs, keys, tokens, keys, encryption, and filenames forming a class of printable strings. The system and method described makes use of secured password “Hopping” to maximize data security and user's ease of implementation. “Hopping” refers to a method of automated random-password construction and serial substitution. The instant invention uses a protocol to create an immutable interdependence between a machine identity credential and a key credential as each is rotated from session to session.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Inventor: Thomas M. McNamara, Jr.