Patents by Inventor Aravind K Ramachandran

Aravind K Ramachandran 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: 9098459
    Abstract: The filtering of activities generated by nodes of a network while interacting with a device may be performed by evaluating the desirability of the activities (e.g., a spam or not-spam determination of email messages sent by the node) and assigning a trust rating to the node. However, nodes are often identified by network address, and an operator of a node sending undesirable activities may reassign the network address of the node in order to avoid heavy filtering. Instead, nodes may be identified as being controlled by a network entity (e.g., an autonomous system identified in a border gateway protocol routing table.) The network entity is assigned a network entity trust rating based on the trust ratings of the nodes controlled thereby, and an appropriate level of activity filtering based on the network entity trust rating may be selected for subsequent activities received from all nodes controlled by the network entity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2015
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Malcolm H Davis, Aravind K Ramachandran, Geoffrey J Hulten, Ivan Osipkov, Milenko Drinic, Eliot C. Gillum, Krishna C. Vitaldevara, Jason D. Walter, Mehrdad Bidgoli, Robert L. McCann
  • Patent number: 8370902
    Abstract: Network entities controlling a set of nodes may vary by trustworthiness, such as tolerance for nodes that send spam, distribute malware, or perform denial-of-service attacks. A device receiving such activities may identify a trust rating of the network entity and apply appropriately stringent filtering (such as spam evaluation) to activities received from nodes controlled by the network entity. However, a poor trust rating of a network entity may subject a legitimate node controlled by the network entity to inefficiently or unfairly stringent activity filtering. Instead, the device may evaluate the activities of a particular node, assign a trust rating to the node, and if the trust rating of the node is higher than the trust rating of the network entity, apply less stringent activity filtering to the activities of the node, thereby “rescuing” the node from the more stringent activity filtering applied to the other nodes of the network entity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2013
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Malcolm H Davis, Aravind K Ramachandran, Geoffrey J Hulten, Ivan Osipkov, Milenko Drinic, Eliot C. Gillum, Krishna C. Vitaldevara, Jason D. Walter, Mehrdad Bidgoli, Robert L. McCann
  • Publication number: 20130018965
    Abstract: One or more techniques and/or systems are provided for identifying abusive message objects (e.g., URLs, email addresses, etc.), abusive infrastructure components and/or abusive users of a message communication medium(s). In particular, abusive message objects may be identified by aggregating abuse reports to assign abuse values to message objects used within messages by reported users identified within the abuse reports. Abusive users may be identified based upon (e.g., unreported) users that have sent messages comprising message objects identified as abusive. Users may also be identified as abusive users based upon account usage patterns within the message communication medium(s) (e.g., a broadcast usage pattern where a user sends a large number of messages, but receives few responses). Additionally, infrastructure components associated with abusive users may be identified as abusive infrastructure components.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2011
    Publication date: January 17, 2013
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Aravind K. Ramachandran, Malcolm Hollis Davis, Mihai Costea
  • Publication number: 20110191847
    Abstract: The filtering of activities generated by nodes of a network while interacting with a device may be performed by evaluating the desirability of the activities (e.g., a spam or not-spam determination of email messages sent by the node) and assigning a trust rating to the node. However, nodes are often identified by network address, and an operator of a node sending undesirable activities may reassign the network address of the node in order to avoid heavy filtering. Instead, nodes may be identified as being controlled by a network entity (e.g., an autonomous system identified in a border gateway protocol routing table.) The network entity is assigned a network entity trust rating based on the trust ratings of the nodes controlled thereby, and an appropriate level of activity filtering based on the network entity trust rating may be selected for subsequent activities received from all nodes controlled by the network entity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2010
    Publication date: August 4, 2011
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Malcolm H. Davis, Aravind K. Ramachandran, Geoffrey J. Hulten, Ivan Osipkov, Milenko Drinic, Eliot C. Gillum, Krishna C. Vitaldevara, Jason D. Walter, Mehrdad Bidgoli, Robert L. McCann
  • Publication number: 20110191832
    Abstract: Network entities controlling a set of nodes may vary by trustworthiness, such as tolerance for nodes that send spam, distribute malware, or perform denial-of-service attacks. A device receiving such activities may identify a trust rating of the network entity and apply appropriately stringent filtering (such as spam evaluation) to activities received from nodes controlled by the network entity. However, a poor trust rating of a network entity may subject a legitimate node controlled by the network entity to inefficiently or unfairly stringent activity filtering. Instead, the device may evaluate the activities of a particular node, assign a trust rating to the node, and if the trust rating of the node is higher than the trust rating of the network entity, apply less stringent activity filtering to the activities of the node, thereby “rescuing” the node from the more stringent activity filtering applied to the other nodes of the network entity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2010
    Publication date: August 4, 2011
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Malcolm H. Davis, Aravind K. Ramachandran, Geoffrey J. Hulten, Ivan Osipkov, Milenko Drinic, Eliot C. Gillum, Krishna C. Vitaldevara, Jason D. Walter, Mehrdad Bidgoli, Robert L. McCann