Patents Examined by Simon P Kanaan
  • Patent number: 11755749
    Abstract: A system for controlling access to hosted services using computer generated question answer sets is described. The question answer sets are generated and include relationships which are designed to distinguish between human and automated system interpretation through the inclusion of a dynamically established transformation of characteristics in relation to objects described in the question answer sets. The dynamically established transformation provides an additional defense against malicious neural networks used to overcome mechanisms for distinguishing between humans and automated systems. Corresponding methods and devices are contemplated. In an additional embodiment, a decoy set of answer sets are also established to maintain a blacklisted set of suspected automated systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: ROYAL BANK OF CANADA
    Inventors: Bingzhou Zheng, Salah Sharieh, Nebojsa Djosic
  • Patent number: 11748605
    Abstract: An integrated circuit chip device and related products are provided. The integrated circuit chip device is used for performing a multiplication operation, a convolution operation or a training operation of a neural network. The device has the advantages of small calculation amount and low power consumption.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: CAMBRICON TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION LIMITED
    Inventors: Shaoli Liu, Xinkai Song, Bingrui Wang, Yao Zhang, Shuai Hu
  • Patent number: 11748601
    Abstract: An integrated circuit chip device and related products are provided. The integrated circuit chip device is used for performing a multiplication operation, a convolution operation or a training operation of a neural network. The device has the advantages of small calculation amount and low power consumption.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: CAMBRICON TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION LIMITED
    Inventors: Shaoli Liu, Xinkai Song, Bingrui Wang, Yao Zhang, Shuai Hu
  • Patent number: 11748602
    Abstract: An integrated circuit chip device and related products are provided. The integrated circuit chip device is used for performing a multiplication operation, a convolution operation or a training operation of a neural network. The device has the advantages of small calculation amount and low power consumption.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: CAMBRICON TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION LIMITED
    Inventors: Shaoli Liu, Xinkai Song, Bingrui Wang, Yao Zhang, Shuai Hu
  • Patent number: 11750617
    Abstract: An apparatus for use in an identity management system includes a storage device; a network interface; and a processor, the storage device storing software instructions for controlling the processor to: process a request, received via a network interface, for an exclusive claim to a unique identifier associated with an individual; verify the individual's claim to the unique identifier is proper; if the individual's claim is verified, create a user account, wherein the user account is associated with the respective individual's claimed unique identifier; provide a look up service for responding to external queries regarding whether individual unique identifiers of the type claimed by the individual have been claimed; and provide proof of the identity of the individual based on the individual's exclusive claim to the claimed unique identifier in response to a request to provide said proof if authorized by the individual through the user account.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: MICHAEL J. BOLAND, INC.
    Inventor: Michael J. Boland
  • Patent number: 11750389
    Abstract: A system, method, and computer program product are provided for implementing hardware backed symmetric operations for password based authentication. In operation, a system receives a request to access software utilizing password-based authentication. Further, the system receives a password for the password-based authentication. The system computes a hash utilizing the password and a hardware-based authenticator associated with hardware of the system utilizing hardware backed symmetric encryption. Moreover, the system verifies that the hash computed utilizing the password and the hardware-based authenticator is correct for accessing the software.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: DIGITAL 14 LLC
    Inventors: Michael Matovsky, Ravi Singh, Alexander Sherkin
  • Patent number: 11748603
    Abstract: An integrated circuit chip device and related products are provided. The integrated circuit chip device is used for performing a multiplication operation, a convolution operation or a training operation of a neural network. The device has the advantages of small calculation amount and low power consumption.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: CAMBRICON TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION LIMITED
    Inventors: Shaoli Liu, Xinkai Song, Bingrui Wang, Yao Zhang, Shuai Hu
  • Patent number: 11748604
    Abstract: An integrated circuit chip device and related products are provided. The integrated circuit chip device is used for performing a multiplication operation, a convolution operation or a training operation of a neural network. The device has the advantages of small calculation amount and low power consumption.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: CAMBRICON TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION LIMITED
    Inventors: Shaoli Liu, Xinkai Song, Bingrui Wang, Yao Zhang, Shuai Hu
  • Patent number: 11741351
    Abstract: An integrated circuit chip device and related products are provided. The integrated circuit chip device is used for performing a multiplication operation, a convolution operation or a training operation of a neural network. The device has the advantages of small calculation amount and low power consumption.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: CAMBRICON TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION LIMITED
    Inventors: Shaoli Liu, Xinkai Song, Bingrui Wang, Yao Zhang, Shuai Hu
  • Patent number: 11741236
    Abstract: A feature selection methodology is disclosed. In a computer-implemented method, the feature selection methodology automatically monitors components of a computing environment. The feature selection methodology then determines the importance of various components of the computing environment. The feature selection methodology further outputs results of the determining of the importance of the components within the computing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: VMware, Inc.
    Inventors: Bin Zan, Zhen Mo, Vijay Ganti, Vamsi Krishna Akkineni
  • Patent number: 11729612
    Abstract: A method includes transmitting one or more segments of a security certificate on a wireless advertising channel of a peripheral device, where at least one of the segments of the security certificate identifies an authentication server, participating in a public key exchange between the peripheral device and a host device by transmitting a signed public key of the peripheral device, where the signed public key is signed in the security certificate, and transmitting one or more encrypted messages from the peripheral device to the host device via a first secure connection established based on the public key.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: Cypress Semiconductor Corporation
    Inventor: Hui Luo
  • Patent number: 11727113
    Abstract: Systems and methods for computer security are provided by a processor programmed to: receive an Internet file and produce a cryptographic hash of the Internet file; compare the cryptographic hash to external malware databases and external antiviral databases for a malicious file match to determine the Internet file's status that is based upon a weighted consensus algorithm derived from the external malware databases and the external antiviral databases; check if the Internet file's status determination matches the internal malicious software database Internet file's status and update the internal malicious software database based upon the Internet file's status determination if a threshold for the weighted consensus algorithm is exceeded; and train a machine learning algorithm using the Internet file's status determination to create a labelled data set based upon the Internet file's status determination, and provide a report via the input/output device based upon the Internet file's status determination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: UAB 360 IT
    Inventors: Mantas Briliauskas, Dainius Ra{hacek over (z)}inskas
  • Patent number: 11729209
    Abstract: An apparatus for mitigating a DDoS attack in a networked computing system includes at least one detector coupled with a corresponding router in the networked computing system. The detector is configured: to obtain network flow information from the router regarding current data traffic to at least one host; to compare the current data traffic to the host with stored traffic patterns associated with at least one prior DDoS attack; and to generate an output indicative of a match between the current data traffic and at least one of the stored traffic patterns. The apparatus further includes at least one mitigation unit coupled with the at least one detector. The mitigation unit is configured: to receive the output indicative of the match between the current data traffic and at least one of the stored traffic patterns; and to initiate a DDoS attack mitigation action in response to the received output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: CHARTER COMMUNICATIONS OPERATING, LLC
    Inventor: Richard A. Compton
  • Patent number: 11720742
    Abstract: Methods and systems for detecting webpages that share malicious content are presented. A first set of webpages that hosts a web account checker is identified. A baseline page structure score and a baseline language score are calculated based on the identified first set of webpages. Content from a second set of webpages is collected and analyzed based on the calculated baseline page structure and the calculated baseline language scores. One or more of the second set of webpages is flagged as malicious based on the analyzing of the content collected from the second set of webpages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: PayPal, Inc.
    Inventors: Vinjith Nagaraja, Meethil Vijay Yadav, Bradley Wardman
  • Patent number: 11720676
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture to create malware detection rules are disclosed. An example apparatus includes a rule generator to generate an augmented rule set based on a first training data set. A matrix generator is to create a matrix using the augmented rule set and a second training data set. A rule regulator to apply regularization to the augmented rule set based on the matrix to remove any number of rules from the augmented rule set, the rule regulator to create a reduced rule set. A reduced rule set checker to validate the reduced rule set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: McAfee, LLC
    Inventor: Nicholas T. Smith
  • Patent number: 11704439
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and devices for managing privacy policies are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method for management of a user's privacy preferences may include: identifying a computer application installed on a user electronic device, or a website accessed using a browser executed by the user electronic device; retrieving a privacy policy document analysis for a privacy policy document associated with the computer application or the website, the privacy policy document analysis comprising a valuation of a plurality of privacy policy segments within the privacy policy document; receiving a privacy preference analysis for the user, the privacy preference analysis comprising a valuation of a plurality of privacy preferences for the user; identifying a recommended action in response to the valuation of one of the privacy policy segments being outside the scope of the valuation of one of the plurality of privacy preferences; and executing the recommended action.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A.
    Inventors: Michelle Bonat, Tuan Dao, Roderic Bachelor, Jeremy F. Bennett, Ralph Darmo, Andrew Grignon, Kathleen Moynahan
  • Patent number: 11681796
    Abstract: Various embodiments are provided for securing machine learning models by one or more processors in a computing system. One or more hardened machine learning models that are secured against adversarial attacks are provided by applying one or more of a plurality of combinations of selected preprocessing operations from one or more machine learning models, a data set used for hardening the one or more machine learning models, a list of preprocessors, and a selected number of learners.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ngoc Minh Tran, Mathieu Sinn, Maria-Irina Nicolae, Martin Wistuba, Ambrish Rawat, Beat Buesser
  • Patent number: 11683162
    Abstract: A network can operate a WiFi access point with credentials. An unconfigured device can support a Device Provisioning Protocol (DPP), and record bootstrap public keys and initiator private keys. The network can record bootstrap public and responder private keys and operate a DPP server. A responder proxy can establish a secure and mutually authenticated connection with the network. The network can (i) derive responder ephemeral public and private keys, (ii) record the initiator bootstrap public key, and (iii) select a responder mode for the responder. The network can derive an encryption key with at least the (i) recorded the initiator bootstrap public key and (ii) derived responder ephemeral private key. The network can encrypt credentials using at least the derived encryption key and send the encrypted credentials through the responder proxy to the initiator, which can forward the encrypted credentials to the device, thereby supporting a device configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: Meta Platforms, Inc.
    Inventor: John A. Nix
  • Patent number: 11681799
    Abstract: Provided are a computer program product, system, and method for using trap cache segments to detect malicious processes. A trap cache segment to the cache for data in the storage and indicated as a trap cache segment. Cache segments are added to the cache having data from the storage that are not indicated as trap cache segments. A memory function call from a process executing in the computer system reads data from a region of a memory device to output the read data to a buffer of the memory device. A determination is made as to whether the region of the memory device includes the trap cache segment. The memory function call is blocked and the process is treated as a potentially malicious process in response to determining that the region includes the trap cache segment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINES MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Brian A. Rinaldi, Clint A. Hardy, Lokesh M. Gupta, Kevin J. Ash
  • Patent number: 11675900
    Abstract: The technology presented herein improves incident handling in an IT environment. In a particular example, a method provides identifying a first incident in the IT environment. From incident handling information that indicates how a plurality of previous incidents were handled by one or more users, the method provides identifying first information of the incident handling information corresponding to one or more first previous incidents of the plurality of previous incidents that are similar to the first incident. The method further provides determining a suggested course of action from the first information and presenting the suggested course of action to a user of the information technology environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: Splunk Inc.
    Inventors: Sourabh Satish, Trenton John Beals, Glenn Gallien, Govind Salinas