Patents Examined by William A Corum, Jr.
  • Patent number: 11943365
    Abstract: A method including receiving, by an infrastructure device from a first user device, a request to provide a list of available user devices that are available for authenticating the first user device with a service provider; receiving, by the infrastructure device from the first user device, a selection message indicating a selection of a second user device for authenticating the first user device; transmitting, by the infrastructure device to the second user device based on receiving the selection message, an authentication message indicating that the second user device is to authenticate the first user device; receiving, by the infrastructure device from the second user device, one or more encrypted authentication factors associated with authenticating the first user device; and transmitting, by the infrastructure device to the first user device, the one or more encrypted factors associated with authenticating the first user device with the service provider is disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: UAB 360 IT
    Inventor: Mindaugas Valkaitis
  • Patent number: 11936650
    Abstract: A user makes a request from a requesting device for access to a secure operation associated with a network-based service. A first biometric authentication is processed for the request and at least one second scope-based authentication is processed for the request based on an analysis of a physical environment for the requesting device. A determination is made based on at least the first biometric authentication and the scope-based authentication whether the secure operation can be: processed on behalf of the user by the network-based service, not processed at all, or processed only if requested from a specific medium/channel associated with a specific device, which may or may not be the requesting device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: NCR Voyix Corporation
    Inventors: Matthew Robert Burris, Jodessiah Sumpter
  • Patent number: 11934463
    Abstract: Methods for identifying potentially sensitive information and protecting such potentially sensitive information include scanning systems that collect and/or disseminate such information. Without limitation, systems collect and/or disseminate personal identification numbers (e.g., personal identification numbers, tax identification numbers, etc.), such as merchant systems, bank systems, healthcare systems, and the like, that collect, use, or disseminate sensitive information may be scanned to identify sequences of data that are likely to be sensitive, and may take actions to protect such sequences of data. Scanning and protection systems are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: SecurityMetrics, Inc.
    Inventors: Bradley R. Caldwell, Alan B. Butt
  • Patent number: 11928193
    Abstract: A security platform architecture is described herein. The security platform architecture includes multiple layers and utilizes a combination of encryption and other security features to generate a secure environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Winkk, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert O. Keith, Jr., Bradley E. Gray
  • Patent number: 11928200
    Abstract: An electronic device performs techniques related to implementing biometric authentication, including providing user interfaces for: providing indications of error conditions during biometric authentication, providing indications about the biometric sensor during biometric authentication, orienting the device to enroll a biometric feature, and providing an indication of the location of the biometric sensor to correct a detected error condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Marcel Van Os, Peter D. Anton, Lynne Devine, Daamun Mohseni
  • Patent number: 11924326
    Abstract: The present invention describes an architecture for increasing the performance of blockchain using a virtual actor model to provide stateful services that are highly scalable and responsive to events as they support publishing and/or subscribing to streaming messages and/or events. The architecture as described leverages established distributed design practices to achieve what would otherwise require costly resource intensive hardware.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: First Genesis, Inc.
    Inventors: Cedric Harris, Ronald Watty
  • Patent number: 11921832
    Abstract: In some implementations, a terminal device may receive, from a mobile device associated with a user, first information identifying a first facial depth map of the user generated by the mobile device. The terminal device may generate a second facial depth map of the user. The first facial depth map may be generated before the second facial depth map. The terminal device may determine whether the user is authenticated to perform an exchange based on whether the first information identifying the first facial depth map corresponds to second information identifying the second facial depth map. The terminal device may transmit, to the mobile device and based on determining that the user is authenticated, a message indicating that the user is authenticated. The terminal device may receive, from the mobile device, exchange information identifying a credential for performing the exchange.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Capital One Services, LLC
    Inventors: Arnold Balliu, Kelly Jo Brown, Jocelyn Huang
  • Patent number: 11917058
    Abstract: Intelligent impedance injection modules (IIM)s are currently being used for line balancing and overcoming local disturbances on High Voltage (HV) transmission lines of an HV power grid. These distributed IIMs are connected and/or coupled to the HV transmission lines and operate with a pseudo ground at the voltage of the HV transmission line. In order to operate effectively, the IIMs need to communicate with other distributed IIMs across the three phases of the HV grid and also communicate with local intelligent centers LINCs that connect to and synchronize operations across each group of the distributed IIMs in a local region of the HV power grid. Systems and methods are presented for effective and secure sub-cyclic speed communication to and from the distributed IIMs, distributed IIMs to LINCs and substations to enable coordinated actions. Further the distributed IIMs and LINCs receive GPS signals and use the GPS clock for synchronizing operations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Smart Wires Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Thomas Garrison Stuber, Paul-Andre Corbeil
  • Patent number: 11914694
    Abstract: A computing device includes a system that authenticates a user of the computing device. A first sensor obtains a first representation of a physical characteristic of the user that is compared to a registered representation of the physical characteristic of the user. A first level of access to the computing device is enabled based on the first representation of the physical characteristic matching the second representation of the physical characteristic. A second sensor obtains a first representation of a liveness characteristic of the user that indicates that the user is alive. The first representation of the liveness characteristic is compared to a registered representation of the liveness characteristic of the user. A second level of access to the computing device is enabled based on the first representation of the liveness characteristic of the user matching the second representation of the liveness characteristic of the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kwang Oh Kim, Yibing Michelle Wang, Kamil Bojanczyk
  • Patent number: 11907345
    Abstract: An electronic device is disclosed that includes a camera, a display, and a processor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hee Jun Lee, Hyeong Wook Yang, Ju Woan Yoo, Kwang Hyun Lee, Won Suk Chang, Tushar Balasaheb Sandhan, Yang Soo Lee, Ji Yoon Park, Da Som Lee
  • Patent number: 11907346
    Abstract: Systems and methods may generally be used to authenticate a user. An example method may include capturing an image of a portion of a face of a user, retrieving, based on identification information, a registered model of the face from a database, and comparing the portion of the face in the captured image to a facial feature of the registered model. In response to determining that the portion of the captured image matches the facial feature of the registered model, the method may include granting access to secure content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
    Inventors: Ramanathan Ramanathan, Chris Theodore Kalaboukis, Rameshchandra Bhaskar Ketharaju, Andres J. Saenz, Andrew J. Garner, IV, Abhijit Rao, Joon Maeng
  • Patent number: 11907347
    Abstract: A system is provided for secure verification of authentication data using quantum computing and a distributed server network. In particular, the system may store a reference set of authentication data associated with a user within a distributed server database in an encrypted form. Subsequently, when the system receives live set of authentication data associated with the user, the system may, using a quantum authenticator, compare the encrypted live set of authentication data with the encrypted reference set of authentication data for authorization purposes. The system may further comprise a quantum machine learning authorization engine which may track historical data and/or settings associated with the user to model and predict behavior patterns of the user. In this way, the system provides a secure and efficient way to perform authentication and/or authorization of the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Obi Reddy Yanamala, Ravi Ranjan Shandilya, Vinay Jaisinghani, Kumaresan Karuppiah, Samson Paulraj
  • Patent number: 11907351
    Abstract: A method including receiving, by a second user device, an authentication message indicating that the second user device is to authenticate a first user device with a service provider that provides a service to the first user device; determining, by the second user device, one or more authentication factors associated with authenticating the first user device with the service provider; encrypting, by the second user device, the one or more authentication factors based at least in part on utilizing an encryption key associated with a trusted device included in the first user device; and transmitting, by the second user device, one or more encrypted authentication factors to enable authentication of the first user device with the service provider is disclosed. Various other aspects are contemplated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: UAB 360 IT
    Inventor: Mindaugas Valkaitis
  • Patent number: 11893098
    Abstract: A computing device (200) for authenticating a user (110) is provided. The computing device is operative to display a first text (131) to the user, acquire a representation of the user subvocalizing a part of the first text, derive a user phrasing signature from the acquired representation, and authenticate the user in response to determining that the user phrasing signature and a reference phrasing signature fulfil a similarity condition. Optionally, the computing device may be further operative to determine if the user is authorized to read the first text. Further optionally, the computing device may be operative to reveal obfuscated parts of the first text in response to determining that the user is authorized to read the first text, or to discontinue displaying the first text, or to obfuscate at least part of the first text, in response to determining that the user is not authorized to read the first text.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Matthew John Lawrenson, Lars Andersson, Till Burkert, Harm Stefan Cronie, Jacob Ström, Jan Jasper Van Den Berg
  • Patent number: 11886563
    Abstract: A continuous authentication system and related methods are provided. The system detects requests to perform user actions. A security value is associated with each user action. The system determines a subsequent session security level in response to an adjustment to a session security level by a security value of a requested user action. The requested user action is permitted and the session security level is adjusted based on the security value of the requested user action in response to a determination by the system that the subsequent session security level is greater than or equal to a threshold session security level. A user authentication challenge is caused (e.g., prompted) in response to a determination by the system that the subsequent session security level is less than the threshold session security level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: Andrew James Malton, Andrew Eric Walenstein
  • Patent number: 11888849
    Abstract: Described herein is an identity network for validating the digital identity of a user based on identity provider validation for relying parties. The identity network may receive a request to validate a user that includes attributes of the user and a device identifier of the device the user is using to access the relying party. The identity network may identify an identity provider for the user based on the device identifier or attributes of the user. The identity network may launch the identity provider application through the relying party application integration of a software development kit. Upon launch, the user may authenticate himself through the identity provider, and the identity provider may provide a second set of attributes of the user to compare with the user provided attributes. The identity network can provide a confidence score to the relying party based on the comparison of the user attribute values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Early Warning Services, LLC
    Inventors: Gregory Slowiak, Eric Woodward, Philip Lam, Jeff Shultz
  • Patent number: 11874913
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for a multi-factor authentication technique that includes inputs of a physical key possessed by the user as a factor. Such a key may be a physical object that the user possesses and that includes truly random features not easily reproducible. The key may be custom to the user and may include inclusions or anomalies that affect a signal transmitted through the key. Such effects may impart a unique effect on signals transmitted through the key, producing a unique fingerprint to identify whether the key is authentication. An input from the user may be an additional factor within the authentication process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: PAYPAL, INC.
    Inventor: Joshua Buck Powers
  • Patent number: 11868454
    Abstract: An electronic device is disclosed that includes a camera, a display, and a processor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hee Jun Lee, Hyeong Wook Yang, Ju Woan Yoo, Kwang Hyun Lee, Won Suk Chang, Tushar Balasaheb Sandhan, Yang Soo Lee, Ji Yoon Park, Da Som Lee
  • Patent number: 11860988
    Abstract: A method and system for a one-time authentication interaction to conduct electronic financial transactions using a wearable smart ring device is described. In one embodiment, a method includes detecting, by a mobile device, that a wearable smart ring device is being worn by a user. The method also includes receiving, by the mobile device, authentication information associated with the user, and comparing the received authentication information with stored authentication information associated with the user. Upon determining that the received authentication information matches the stored authentication information, the wearable smart ring device is authorized to conduct electronic financial transactions. Additionally, the wearable smart ring device remains authorized to conduct electronic financial transactions as long as it is worn by the user. Once removed from the user's finger, the wearable smart ring device is de-authorized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: United Services Automobile Association (USAA)
    Inventors: Kelly Q. Baker, William Preston Culbertson, II, Will Kerns Maney, Jr., Gregory David Hansen, Jerry John Maestas, Oscar Guerra, Gregory Brian Meyer, Ana Maldonado, Michelle Susan Croak, Andre Rene Buentello, Stacy Callaway Huggar, Jose L. Romero, Jr.
  • Patent number: 11861933
    Abstract: A touch-based method for user authentication includes a training stage and an authentication stage. The training stage includes: generating, by a touch interface, a plurality of training touch parameters; and generating, by a processor, a training heat map according to the plurality of training touch parameters. The authentication stage includes: generating, by the touch interface, a plurality of testing touch parameters; generating, by the processor, a testing heat map according to the plurality of testing touch parameters; comparing, by the processor, the testing heat map with the training heat map to generate an error map; and generating, by the processor, one of pass signal and fail signal according to the error map.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignees: INVENTEC (PUDONG) TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION, INVENTEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Trista Pei-Chun Chen