Patents by Inventor Andrew Fregly

Andrew Fregly 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).

  • Patent number: 10867129
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a domain-name based framework implemented in a digital assistant ecosystem uses domain names as unique identifiers for request types, requesting entities, responders, and target entities embedded in a natural language request. Further, the framework enables interpreting natural language requests according to domain ontologies associated with different responders. A domain ontology operates as a keyword dictionary for a given responder and defines the keywords and corresponding allowable values to be used for request types and request parameters. The domain-name based framework thus enables the digital assistant to interact with any responder that supports a domain ontology to generate precise and complete responses to natural language based requests.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: VERISIGN, INC.
    Inventors: Andrew Fregly, Burton S. Kaliski, Jr., Swapneel Sheth
  • Patent number: 10848301
    Abstract: One embodiment of the present application sets forth a computer-implemented method for establishing trust for handles used to identify digital objects in a digital object architecture (DOA) by associating a first attester identifier with a first attester from a trusted public key infrastructure (PKI), identifying a first digital object public key for a first digital object, generating, by the first attester, a first digital object identity attestation that associates the first digital object public key with a handle identifier for the first digital object, wherein the handle identifier is external to the trusted PKI, and generating a first attester identity attestation attesting that the first attester is authentic, where the first attester identity attestation includes the first attester identifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: VERISIGN, INC.
    Inventors: Andrew Fregly, Najmehalsadat Miramirkhani, Swapneel Sheth
  • Patent number: 10798093
    Abstract: Provided is a method for providing Registration Data Access Protocol (“RDAP”) responses. The method includes obtaining, at a RDAP client over a network, a RDAP query for RDAP data from a user; providing, by the RDAP client, the RDAP query and a cryptographic credential to a RDAP server, wherein the RDAP server communicates with one or more thick RDAP servers to provide respective thick RDAP answers to the RDAP query, wherein at least one the respective thick RDAP answers are encrypted using a symmetric or asymmetric cryptographic key associated with the cryptographic credential of the RDAP client; obtaining a consolidated thick RDAP answer to the RDAP query from the RDAP server; decrypting the consolidated thick RDAP answer using a symmetric or asymmetric cryptographic key associated with the cryptographic credential; and providing the thick RDAP answer that is decrypted to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: VERISIGN, INC.
    Inventors: Burton S. Kaliski, Jr., Swapneel Sheth, Scott Hollenbeck, Andrew Fregly
  • Publication number: 20200258507
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a domain-name based framework implemented in a digital assistant ecosystem uses domain names as unique identifiers for request types, requesting entities, responders, and target entities embedded in a natural language request. Further, the framework enables interpreting natural language requests according to domain ontologies associated with different responders. A domain ontology operates as a keyword dictionary for a given responder and defines the keywords and corresponding allowable values to be used for request types and request parameters. The domain-name based framework thus enables the digital assistant to interact with any responder that supports a domain ontology to generate precise and complete responses to natural language based requests.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2020
    Publication date: August 13, 2020
    Inventors: Andrew FREGLY, Burton S. KALISKI, JR., Swapneel SHETH
  • Patent number: 10715502
    Abstract: Systems and methods for automating client-side synchronization and discovery of public keys and certificates of external contacts include a key synchronizer at a client device. The key synchronizer obtains, from the client device, an external contact associated with an external domain outside of a local domain of the client device and then identifies, based on the external domain, a public key registry outside of the local domain. The key synchronizer obtains, from the public key registry, a registry-supplied public key or digital certificate for the external contact and then stores the registry-supplied key as a locally-stored key in the local key store such that the client device can obtain and apply the locally-stored key to secure an email targeting the external contact as a recipient of the email.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: VERISIGN, INC.
    Inventors: Stephen Daniel James, Andrew Fregly, Andrew Cathrow
  • Patent number: 10665230
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a domain-name based framework implemented in a digital assistant ecosystem uses domain names as unique identifiers for request types, requesting entities, responders, and target entities embedded in a natural language request. Further, the framework enables interpreting natural language requests according to domain ontologies associated with different responders. A domain ontology operates as a keyword dictionary for a given responder and defines the keywords and corresponding allowable values to be used for request types and request parameters. The domain-name based framework thus enables the digital assistant to interact with any responder that supports a domain ontology to generate precise and complete responses to natural language based requests.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: VERISIGN, INC.
    Inventors: Andrew Fregly, Burton S. Kaliski, Jr., Swapneel Sheth
  • Patent number: 10642969
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a security provisioning service automatically establishes trust in a device. Upon receiving a provisioning request, a security provisioning service identifies a verification item that is associated with the provisioning request. The security provisioning service performs one or more verification operations based on the provisioning request to determine whether the provisioning request is authorized. If the provisioning request is authorized, then the provisioning service establishes a verifiable identification for the device that is assured by the secure provisioning service and then executes the provisioning request. By automatically performing the verification operations to establish trust in the device, the provisioning service eliminates manual identification assurance operations that are performed as part of a conventional security provisioning process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: VERISIGN, INC.
    Inventors: Stephen D. James, Andrew Fregly, Andrew Cathrow
  • Patent number: 10599725
    Abstract: Improved RDAP systems, RDAP services, and RDAP methods identify users and clients and keep track of their RDAP activities. The RDAP systems, services, and methods analyze the activities of a user (or a client) and detect or determine whether or not the user is engaging in undesirable, malicious, or otherwise abnormal activities. If so, the RDAP systems, services, and methods take action to reduce, eliminate, or otherwise mitigate the undesirable, malicious, or abnormal activities of the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2020
    Assignee: VERISIGN, INC.
    Inventors: Matthew Ward, Andrew Fregly, Swapneel Sheth
  • Patent number: 10282484
    Abstract: Provided a method for creating a searchable registry based on a ontology for IoT devices and associated data feeds. The method can include registering a IoT device and its associated data feed in a record with a searchable registry; creating relationships between IoT devices and associated data feeds; associating the records with one or more ontology terms of a hierarchical ontology describing a characteristic of the IoT device, the associated data, the relationships or all of them; and providing a response to a request of an IoT device based on the mapping.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2019
    Assignee: VERISIGN, INC.
    Inventors: Regis Piccand, Asbjorn Mikkelsen, Andrew Fregly, Asif Akhtar
  • Publication number: 20190036708
    Abstract: A method and a computer system is provided for executing the method for providing a registration data directory service (RDDS). The method includes obtaining, at a RDDS, a RDDS query comprising a location assertion from a RDDS client from a RDDS client; providing, by the RDDS, a request for personally identifying information (PII) for the RDDS query from a privacy provider, wherein the request comprises the location assertion; obtaining, by the RDDS, the PII for the RDDS query; and providing, by the RDDS, a response to the RDDS query to the RDDS client, wherein the response comprises PII.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2017
    Publication date: January 31, 2019
    Inventors: Andrew Fregly, Swapneel Sheth
  • Publication number: 20190018951
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a security provisioning service automatically establishes trust in a device. Upon receiving a provisioning request, a security provisioning service identifies a verification item that is associated with the provisioning request. The security provisioning service performs one or more verification operations based on the provisioning request to determine whether the provisioning request is authorized. If the provisioning request is authorized, then the provisioning service establishes a verifiable identification for the device that is assured by the secure provisioning service and then executes the provisioning request. By automatically performing the verification operations to establish trust in the device, the provisioning service eliminates manual identification assurance operations that are performed as part of a conventional security provisioning process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2018
    Publication date: January 17, 2019
    Inventors: Stephen D. JAMES, Andrew FREGLY, Andrew CATHROW
  • Publication number: 20180309720
    Abstract: Embodiments relate to systems, devices, computer-readable media, and computer-implemented methods for automatically generating a website and domain name suggestions by receiving, from a website server, user content, determining a user type based on the user content, separating the user content into multiple sets of user content, automatically generating webpages of a website based on the user content, where the webpages include a homepage and a webpage corresponding to each set of user content of the multiple sets of user content, automatically generating domain name suggestions based on the user content, transmitting a domain name lookup request based on the domain name suggestions, determining available domain name suggestions based on a response to the domain name lookup request, receiving a request for a generated webpage, and providing the generated webpage and the available domain name suggestions based on the request.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2017
    Publication date: October 25, 2018
    Inventors: John Cochran, Andrew Fregly, Ajay Jain, Andrew Kaizer, Ashvatth Lakshmanan, Swapneel Sheth, Karthik Shyamsunder, Zhao Zhao
  • Patent number: 10083291
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a security provisioning service automatically establishes trust in a device. Upon receiving a provisioning request, a security provisioning service identifies a verification item that is associated with the provisioning request. The security provisioning service performs one or more verification operations based on the provisioning request to determine whether the provisioning request is authorized. If the provisioning request is authorized, then the provisioning service establishes a verifiable identification for the device that is assured by the secure provisioning service and then executes the provisioning request. By automatically performing the verification operations to establish trust in the device, the provisioning service eliminates manual identification assurance operations that are performed as part of a conventional security provisioning process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2018
    Assignee: VERISIGN, INC.
    Inventors: Stephen D. James, Andrew Fregly, Andrew Cathrow
  • Publication number: 20180183829
    Abstract: Improved RDAP systems, RDAP services, and RDAP methods identify users and clients and keep track of their RDAP activities. The RDAP systems, services, and methods analyze the activities of a user (or a client) and detect or determine whether or not the user is engaging in undesirable, malicious, or otherwise abnormal activities. If so, the RDAP systems, services, and methods take action to reduce, eliminate, or otherwise mitigate the undesirable, malicious, or abnormal activities of the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2016
    Publication date: June 28, 2018
    Inventors: Matthew Ward, Andrew Fregly, Swapneel Sheth
  • Patent number: 9996628
    Abstract: This disclosure includes, for example, methods and computer systems for providing audio-activated resource access for user devices. The computer systems may store instructions to cause the processor to perform operations, comprising capturing audio at a user device. The operations may also comprise using a speaker recognition system to identify a speaker in the transmitted audio and/or using a speech-to-text converter to identify text in the captured audio. The speaker identity or a condensed version of the speaker identity or other metadata along with the speaker identity may be transmitted to a server system to determine a corresponding speaker identity entry. The operations may also comprise receiving a resource corresponding to the identified speaker entry in the server system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Assignee: VERISIGN, INC.
    Inventors: Harshini Ramnath Krishnan, Andrew Fregly
  • Publication number: 20180121410
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer program products are provided for optimizing searches of records including text elements. The methods, systems, and computer program perform operations including receiving a regular expression search query from a client. The operations also include parsing elements of the regular expression search query. The operations further include identifying search mechanisms based on the elements parsed from the search query. In addition, the operations include searching a data set identified by the regular expression search query using the search mechanisms. Further, the operations include returning a search result from the data set to the client based on a result of the searching.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2017
    Publication date: May 3, 2018
    Inventors: Andrew Fregly, Zhao Zhao, Swapneel Sheth, Scott Hollenbeck
  • Publication number: 20180083781
    Abstract: Provided is a method for providing Registration Data Access Protocol (“RDAP”) responses. The method includes obtaining, at a RDAP client over a network, a RDAP query for RDAP data from a user; providing, by the RDAP client, the RDAP query and a cryptographic credential to a RDAP server, wherein the RDAP server communicates with one or more thick RDAP servers to provide respective thick RDAP answers to the RDAP query, wherein at least one the respective thick RDAP answers are encrypted using a symmetric or asymmetric cryptographic key associated with the cryptographic credential of the RDAP client; obtaining a consolidated thick RDAP answer to the RDAP query from the RDAP server; decrypting the consolidated thick RDAP answer using a symmetric or asymmetric cryptographic key associated with the cryptographic credential; and providing the thick RDAP answer that is decrypted to the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2017
    Publication date: March 22, 2018
    Inventors: Burton S. Kaliski, JR., Swapneel Sheth, Scott Hollenbeck, Andrew Fregly
  • Publication number: 20170374042
    Abstract: Provided herein is a method for registering an IoT device with a DNS registry. The method can include obtaining, at a DNS server, an identifier, IP address, and a public key of an asymmetric key pair associated with the IoT device from a network gateway device that is in communication with the IoT device, wherein the asymmetric key pair is provisioned onto the IoT device and an associated private key stored within a memory of the IoT device at a time that IoT device is manufactured or during a predetermined time window after manufacturing; creating at least one DNS record for the IoT device; assigning a domain name associated with the internet protocol (“IP”) address to the IoT device; storing the identifier, IP address, the domain name, and the public key in the at least one DNS record; and providing confirmation of the registration to the IoT device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2017
    Publication date: December 28, 2017
    Inventors: Stephen Daniel James, Daniel Schonfeld, Andrew Fregly, Eric Osterweil
  • Publication number: 20170279762
    Abstract: Provided is a method of provisioning a named resource in a domain name system (“DNS”) with a registrar while preserving privacy of a registrant. The method includes obtaining, by a server of the registrar over a network, a request, from the registrant, to provision the named resource; determining, by at least one hardware processor of the server of the registrar, that the request requires additional handling by a privacy provider based on information in the request or information from the registrar; determining, by at least one hardware processor of the server of the registrar, a privacy provider from one or more privacy providers located in different geographic locations to service the request based on a location of the registrant; forwarding the request to the privacy provider; obtaining a cloaked identifier from the privacy provider; and provisioning the named resource in a database of a DNS registry using the cloaked identifier.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2016
    Publication date: September 28, 2017
    Inventor: Andrew Fregly
  • Patent number: 9762556
    Abstract: Provided herein is a method for registering an IoT device with a DNS registry. The method can include obtaining, at a DNS server, an identifier, IP address, and a public key of an asymmetric key pair associated with the IoT device from a network gateway device that is in communication with the IoT device, wherein the asymmetric key pair is provisioned onto the IoT device and an associated private key stored within a memory of the IoT device at a time that IoT device is manufactured or during a predetermined time window after manufacturing; creating at least one DNS record for the IoT device; assigning a domain name associated with the internet protocol (“IP”) address to the IoT device; storing the identifier, IP address, the domain name, and the public key in the at least one DNS record; and providing confirmation of the registration to the IoT device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2017
    Assignee: VERISIGN, INC.
    Inventors: Stephen Daniel James, Daniel Schonfeld, Andrew Fregly, Eric Osterweil