Patents by Inventor Alan Michael Stokes

Alan Michael Stokes has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Preventing user interaction hijacking attacks by blocking interactions with obscured components
    Patent number: 12499223
    Abstract: A method includes detecting a user interaction with a particular region of a graphical user interface (GUI), and determining that the user interaction will be consumed by a particular user interface (UI) component that is overlaid by a plurality of UI components configured to allow the user interaction to pass through to the particular UI component. The method also includes, based on determining that the user interaction will be consumed by the particular UI component, determining a cumulative opacity of the plurality of UI components at the particular region of the GUI. The method further includes determining that the cumulative opacity exceeds a threshold opacity and, based on determining that the cumulative opacity exceeds the threshold opacity, blocking the particular UI component from consuming the user interaction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2025
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Bernardo Rufino, Linus Tufvesson, Edward Cunningham, Alan Michael Stokes
  • Preventing User Interaction Hijacking Attacks By Blocking Interactions With Obscured Components
    Publication number: 20240086529
    Abstract: A method includes detecting a user interaction with a particular region of a graphical user interface (GUI), and determining that the user interaction will be consumed by a particular user interface (UI) component that is overlaid by a plurality of UI components configured to allow the user interaction to pass through to the particular UI component. The method also includes, based on determining that the user interaction will be consumed by the particular UI component, determining a cumulative opacity of the plurality of UI components at the particular region of the GUI. The method further includes determining that the cumulative opacity exceeds a threshold opacity and, based on determining that the cumulative opacity exceeds the threshold opacity, blocking the particular UI component from consuming the user interaction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2021
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventors: Bernardo Rufino, Linus Tufvesson, Edward Cunningham, Alan Michael Stokes
  • Application Version Release Management
    Publication number: 20150286478
    Abstract: Implementations of the disclosed subject matter provide systems and methods for providing one or more versions of an application to one or more subsets of users based on measured performance of the one or more versions of the application. A method may include providing a first version of an application to a first subset of users of the application. Next, performance of the first version of the application may be measured and a second subset of users of the application may be selected based on the performance of the first version of the application. As a result, a second version of the application may be provided to the second subset of users of the application.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2015
    Publication date: October 8, 2015
    Inventors: Brian Patton, Nicolas Fortescue, Piotr Krzysztof Swigon, John Ayres, Maximilian RUPPANER, Elizabeth Ireland Powers, Eva-Lotta Lamm, Alan Michael Stokes
  • Application version release management
    Patent number: 9087156
    Abstract: Implementations of the disclosed subject matter provide systems and methods for providing one or more versions of an application to one or more subsets of users based on measured performance of the one or more versions of the application. A method may include providing a first version of an application to a first subset of users of the application. Next, performance of the first version of the application may be measured and a second subset of users of the application may be selected based on the performance of the first version of the application. As a result, a second version of the application may be provided to the second subset of users of the application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2015
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Brian Patton, Nicolas Fortescue, Piotr Krzysztof Swigon, John Ayres, Maximilian Ruppaner, Elizabeth Ireland Powers, Eva-Lotta Lamm, Alan Michael Stokes
  • APPLICATION VERSION RELEASE MANAGEMENT
    Publication number: 20150143345
    Abstract: Implementations of the disclosed subject matter provide systems and methods for providing one or more versions of an application to one or more subsets of users based on measured performance of the one or more versions of the application. A method may include providing a first version of an application to a first subset of users of the application. Next, performance of the first version of the application may be measured and a second subset of users of the application may be selected based on the performance of the first version of the application. As a result, a second version of the application may be provided to the second subset of users of the application.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2013
    Publication date: May 21, 2015
    Applicant: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Brian Patton, Nicolas Fortescue, Piotr Krzysztof Swigon, John Ayres, Maximilian RUPPANER, Elizabeth Ireland Powers, Eva-Lotta Lamm, Alan Michael Stokes