Patents by Inventor Arnold Neil Blinn

Arnold Neil Blinn 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: 11223617
    Abstract: An Internet resource provider (IRP) may authenticate a user and, upon a successful authentication, allow the user to perform one or more actions on webpages that are within an account of the user. The IPR may store the most recent actions of the user in a temporary access code (TAC) database. If the user has a problem, the user may select a TAC button on a webpage within the account of the user. The IPR may generate a TAC, store the TAC in association with the recent activities of the user in the TAC database and transmit the TAC to the user. The user may contact and provide the TAC to a customer support service center. The customer support service center may authenticate the user based solely on the TAC and determine the one or more recent actions of the user in the TAC database. The customer support service center may provide assistance to the user based at least partially on the one or more recent actions of the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: Go Daddy Operating Company, LLC
    Inventors: Arnold Neil Blinn, Mitchell Dean Olson, Jacob Louis Brooks, John Basyl Kercheval
  • Patent number: 11128476
    Abstract: A Domain Name System (DNS) provider that is not a registrar of a domain name may nonetheless request a registry (possibly via an API request from the registrar to the registry, or via a call directly to the registry) to alter a Delegation Signer (DS) record in a DNS parent zone or other data controlled by the registry. The registry preferably confirms that the DNS provider has control over a nameserver for the domain name. Using Public Key Infrastructure (PKI), the DNS provider may sign the request with a private key and store the public key in a location that confirms the DNS provider has control over the domain name or over the nameservers for the domain name. After successfully confirming the DNS provider, the registrar or registry may change the DS record so that the domain name supports Domain Name System Security Extensions (DNSSEC) or update other data with the registry.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: Go Daddy Operating Company, LLC
    Inventors: Arnold Neil Blinn, Christopher Ambler
  • Patent number: 10834076
    Abstract: An Internet resource provider (IRP) may authenticate a user and, upon a successful authentication, allow the user to perform one or more actions on webpages that are within an account of the user. The IPR may store the most recent actions of the user in a temporary access code (TAC) database. If the user has a problem, the user may select a TAC button on a webpage within the account of the user. The IPR may generate a TAC, store the TAC in association with the recent activities of the user in the TAC database and transmit the TAC to the user. The user may contact and provide the TAC to a customer support service center. The customer support service center may authenticate the user based solely on the TAC and determine the one or more recent actions of the user in the TAC database. The customer support service center may provide assistance to the user based at least partially on the one or more recent actions of the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: Go Daddy Operating Company, LLC
    Inventors: Arnold Neil Blinn, Mitchell Dean Olson, Jacob Louis Brooks, John Basyl Kercheval
  • Patent number: 10764283
    Abstract: A domain name registrar may suggest and/or allow a user to select one or more domain names registered to the user for on demand multifactor authentication. The user may select one or more protected activities that trigger the enhanced security for the selected domain name(s). The user may also enter a plurality of authenticatees, contact information for the authenticatees and a minimum number of authenticatees required to approve the one or more protected activities. The user and/or authenticatees may also enter at least two authentication methods for each authenticatee and corresponding correct responses. The selected domain names are thus protected from the protected activities until approved by a minimum number of authenticatees using at least a first authentication method and a second authentication method selected from different groups of “what you know,” what you have” and “what you are” authentication methods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: Go Daddy Operating Company, LLC
    Inventor: Arnold Neil Blinn
  • Publication number: 20200162452
    Abstract: An Internet resource provider (IRP) may authenticate a user and, upon a successful authentication, allow the user to perform one or more actions on webpages that are within an account of the user. The IPR may store the most recent actions of the user in a temporary access code (TAC) database. If the user has a problem, the user may select a TAC button on a webpage within the account of the user. The IPR may generate a TAC, store the TAC in association with the recent activities of the user in the TAC database and transmit the TAC to the user. The user may contact and provide the TAC to a customer support service center. The customer support service center may authenticate the user based solely on the TAC and determine the one or more recent actions of the user in the TAC database. The customer support service center may provide assistance to the user based at least partially on the one or more recent actions of the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2018
    Publication date: May 21, 2020
    Inventors: Arnold Neil BLINN, Mitchell Dean OLSON, Jacob Louis BROOKS, John Basyl KERCHEVAL
  • Publication number: 20200162453
    Abstract: An Internet resource provider (IRP) may authenticate a user and, upon a successful authentication, allow the user to perform one or more actions on webpages that are within an account of the user. The IPR may store the most recent actions of the user in a temporary access code (TAC) database. If the user has a problem, the user may select a TAC button on a webpage within the account of the user. The IPR may generate a TAC, store the TAC in association with the recent activities of the user in the TAC database and transmit the TAC to the user. The user may contact and provide the TAC to a customer support service center. The customer support service center may authenticate the user based solely on the TAC and determine the one or more recent actions of the user in the TAC database. The customer support service center may provide assistance to the user based at least partially on the one or more recent actions of the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2018
    Publication date: May 21, 2020
    Inventors: Arnold Neil BLINN, Mitchell Dean OLSON, Jacob Louis BROOKS, John Basyl KERCHEVAL
  • Patent number: 10554417
    Abstract: Systems and methods of the present invention provide for one or more server computers communicatively coupled to a network and configured to: identify, within a data store: a web page including a script tag; a URL in the script tag referencing a location for a second server hosting a script file; and a first hash data in the script tag generated from the script file using a hash function algorithm. The server computer(s) execute a request that accesses the script file and a second hash generated from the script file and stored on the second server computer. If the second hash data does not match the first hash data, execution of the script tag is disabled, and a notification is generated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2020
    Assignee: Go Daddy Operating Company, LLC
    Inventor: Arnold Neil Blinn
  • Patent number: 10536426
    Abstract: Systems and methods for creating custom domain name links are provided. At least one server communicatively coupled to a network receives a request to create a custom domain name link to a third party service. The request identifies a custom domain name. The at least one server retrieves, from a third party service link database, an entry for the third party service specifying how to create the custom domain name link for the third party service and he at least one server creates the custom domain name link in accordance with the entry retrieved from the third party service link database.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: Go Daddy Operating Company, LLC
    Inventors: Arnold Neil Blinn, Nitin Gupta, Rahul Mahajan
  • Publication number: 20190268323
    Abstract: A domain name registrar may suggest and/or allow a user to select one or more domain names registered to the user for on demand multifactor authentication. The user may select one or more protected activities that trigger the enhanced security for the selected domain name(s). The user may also enter a plurality of authenticatees, contact information for the authenticatees and a minimum number of authenticatees required to approve the one or more protected activities. The user and/or authenticatees may also enter at least two authentication methods for each authenticatee and corresponding correct responses. The selected domain names are thus protected from the protected activities until approved by a minimum number of authenticatees using at least a first authentication method and a second authentication method selected from different groups of “what you know,” what you have” and “what you are” authentication methods.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 7, 2019
    Publication date: August 29, 2019
    Inventor: Arnold Neil Blinn
  • Patent number: 10341322
    Abstract: A domain name registrar may suggest and/or allow a user to select one or more domain names registered to the user for on demand multifactor authentication. The user may select one or more protected activities that trigger the enhanced security for the selected domain name(s). The user may also enter a plurality of authenticatees, contact information for the authenticatees and a minimum number of authenticatees required to approve the one or more protected activities. The user and/or authenticatees may also enter at least two authentication methods for each authenticatee and corresponding correct responses. The selected domain names are thus protected from the protected activities until approved by a minimum number of authenticatees using at least a first authentication method and a second authentication method selected from different groups of “what you know,” what you have” and “what you are” authentication methods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: GO DADDY OPERATING COMPANY, LLC
    Inventor: Arnold Neil Blinn
  • Patent number: 10341323
    Abstract: A domain name registrar may suggest and/or allow a user to select one or more domain names registered to the user for on demand multifactor authentication. The user may select one or more protected activities that trigger the enhanced security for the selected domain name(s). The user may also enter a plurality of authenticatees, contact information for the authenticatees and a minimum number of authenticatees required to approve the one or more protected activities. The user and/or authenticatees may also enter at least two authentication methods for each authenticatee and corresponding correct responses. The selected domain names are thus protected from the protected activities until approved by a minimum number of authenticatees using at least a first authentication method and a second authentication method selected from different groups of “what you know,” what you have” and “what you are” authentication methods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: GO DADDY OPERATING COMPANY, LLC
    Inventor: Arnold Neil Blinn
  • Publication number: 20190190722
    Abstract: Systems and methods of the present invention provide for one or more server computers communicatively coupled to a network and configured to: identify, within a data store: a web page including a script tag; a URL in the script tag referencing a location for a second server hosting a script file; and a first hash data in the script tag generated from the script file using a hash function algorithm. The server computer(s) execute a request that accesses the script file and a second hash generated from the script file and stored on the second server computer. If the second hash data does not match the first hash data, execution of the script tag is disabled, and a notification is generated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2019
    Publication date: June 20, 2019
    Inventor: Arnold Neil Blinn
  • Publication number: 20190149507
    Abstract: Systems and methods for creating custom domain name links are provided. At least one server communicatively coupled to a network receives a request to create a custom domain name link to a third party service. The request identifies a custom domain name. The at least one server retrieves, from a third party service link database, an entry for the third party service specifying how to create the custom domain name link for the third party service and he at least one server creates the custom domain name link in accordance with the entry retrieved from the third party service link database.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 8, 2019
    Publication date: May 16, 2019
    Inventors: Arnold Neil Blinn, Nitin Gupta, Rahul Mahajan
  • Patent number: 10200341
    Abstract: Systems and methods for creating custom domain name links are provided. At least one server communicatively coupled to a network receives a request to create a custom domain name link to a third party service. The request identifies a custom domain name. The at least one server retrieves, from a third party service link database, an entry for the third party service specifying how to create the custom domain name link for the third party service and he at least one server creates the custom domain name link in accordance with the entry retrieved from the third party service link database.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2019
    Assignee: GO DADDY OPERATING COMPANY, LLC
    Inventors: Arnold Neil Blinn, Nitin Gupta, Rahul Mahajan
  • Patent number: 10135903
    Abstract: A game is provided that may be run on a client device of a customer. The game identifies one or more registered domain names and generates one or more available domain names for use in the game. In preferred embodiments, all of the registered and available domain names are linked in some manner to the customer and/or are in one or more categories selected by the customer. The domain names may be displayed one at a time and in a mixed order to the customer. The customer may guess whether each displayed domain name is registered or available for registration. The customer may be provided the correct answer after each guess and a “Results” page may display the results of all of the customer's guesses. The customer may be given the option at various points in the game to register any of the displayed and guessed upon available domain names. After registering one or more of the available domain names, the customer may be taken back into the game at the same point the customer left the game.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: Go Daddy Operating Company, LLC
    Inventors: Arnold Neil Blinn, Harsh Abhay Damania, Anna Elizabeth Goodman, Rebekah Gruver, Aubrey John Russell, Brett Michael Spradling
  • Publication number: 20180097806
    Abstract: Systems and methods of the present invention provide for a first and second client computer configured to receive and transmit an authentication credential and at least one additional authentication credential respectively. The authentication credentials may be selected from authentication credentials known only to a user, identifying a client computer and/or identifying a characteristic unique to the user. A server computer communicatively coupled to the network may be configured to receive the authentication credentials and verify the identity of the user via a match, in a database, of a first authentication credential, a second authentication credential and a third authentication credential.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2017
    Publication date: April 5, 2018
    Inventor: Arnold Neil Blinn
  • Publication number: 20180026937
    Abstract: Systems and methods for creating custom domain name links are provided. At least one server communicatively coupled to a network receives a request to create a custom domain name link to a third party service. The request identifies a custom domain name. The at least one server retrieves, from a third party service link database, an entry for the third party service specifying how to create the custom domain name link for the third party service and he at least one server creates the custom domain name link in accordance with the entry retrieved from the third party service link database.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2017
    Publication date: January 25, 2018
    Inventors: Arnold Neil Blinn, Nitin Gupta, Rahul Mahajan
  • Patent number: 9871791
    Abstract: Systems and methods of the present invention provide for a first and second client computer configured to receive and transmit an authentication credential and at least one additional authentication credential respectively. The authentication credentials may be selected from authentication credentials known only to a user, identifying a client computer and/or identifying a characteristic unique to the user. A server computer communicatively coupled to the network may be configured to receive the authentication credentials and verify the identity of the user via a match, in a database, of a first authentication credential, a second authentication credential and a third authentication credential.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2018
    Assignee: Go Daddy Operating Company, LLC
    Inventor: Arnold Neil Blinn
  • Publication number: 20170279617
    Abstract: A Domain Name System (DNS) provider that is not a registrar of a domain name may nonetheless request a registry (possibly via an API request from the registrar to the registry, or via a call directly to the registry) to alter a Delegation Signer (DS) record in a DNS parent zone or other data controlled by the registry. The registry preferably confirms that the DNS provider has control over a nameserver for the domain name. Using Public Key Infrastructure (PKI), the DNS provider may sign the request with a private key and store the public key in a location that confirms the DNS provider has control over the domain name or over the nameservers for the domain name. After successfully confirming the DNS provider, the registrar or registry may change the DS record so that the domain name supports Domain Name System Security Extensions (DNSSEC) or update other data with the registry.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2016
    Publication date: September 28, 2017
    Inventors: Arnold Neil Blinn, Christopher Ambler
  • Patent number: 9774562
    Abstract: Systems and methods for creating custom domain name links are provided. At least one server communicatively coupled to a network receives a request to create a custom domain name link to a third party service. The request identifies a custom domain name. The at least one server retrieves, from a third party service link database, an entry for the third party service specifying how to create the custom domain name link for the third party service and the at least one server creates the custom domain name link in accordance with the entry retrieved from the third party service link database.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2017
    Assignee: Go Daddy Operating Company, LLC
    Inventors: Arnold Neil Blinn, Nitin Gupta, Rahul Mahajan