Patents by Inventor Bradley D. Townsend

Bradley D. Townsend 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).

  • Publication number: 20230351052
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, that protect analytics for resources of a publisher from traffic directed to such resources by malicious entities. An analytics server receives a first message that includes an encrypted token and analytics data for a publisher-provided resource. The token includes a portion of the analytics data and a trust score indicating a likelihood that activity on the resource is attributed to a human (rather than an automated process). The analytics server decrypts the token. The analytics server determines a trustworthiness measure for the analytics data included in the first message based on the trust score (in the decrypted token) and a comparison of the analytics data in the first message and the portion of the analytics data (in the decrypted token). Based on the measure of trustworthiness, the analytics server performs analytics operations using the analytics data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2023
    Publication date: November 2, 2023
    Inventors: Arthur Weinberger, Aaron Malenfant, Jason Fedor, Jackson Roberts, Madhu Kallazhi Vasu, Bradley D. Townsend, Breen Baker, John Charles Simone, Ronak Parpani, Sean Michael Harrison
  • Patent number: 11709968
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, that protect analytics for resources of a publisher from traffic directed to such resources by malicious entities. An analytics server receives a first message that includes an encrypted token and analytics data for a publisher-provided resource. The token includes a portion of the analytics data and a trust score indicating a likelihood that activity on the resource is attributed to a human (rather than an automated process). The analytics server decrypts the token. The analytics server determines a trustworthiness measure for the analytics data included in the first message based on the trust score (in the decrypted token) and a comparison of the analytics data in the first message and the portion of the analytics data (in the decrypted token). Based on the measure of trustworthiness, the analytics server performs analytics operations using the analytics data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Arthur Weinberger, Aaron Malenfant, Jason Fedor, Jackson Roberts, Madhu Kallazhi Vasu, Bradley D. Townsend, Breen Baker, John Charles Simone, Ronak Parpani, Sean Michael Harrison
  • Publication number: 20220027517
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, that protect analytics for resources of a publisher from traffic directed to such resources by malicious entities. An analytics server receives a first message that includes an encrypted token and analytics data for a publisher-provided resource. The token includes a portion of the analytics data and a trust score indicating a likelihood that activity on the resource is attributed to a human (rather than an automated process). The analytics server decrypts the token. The analytics server determines a trustworthiness measure for the analytics data included in the first message based on the trust score (in the decrypted token) and a comparison of the analytics data in the first message and the portion of the analytics data (in the decrypted token). Based on the measure of trustworthiness, the analytics server performs analytics operations using the analytics data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2021
    Publication date: January 27, 2022
    Inventors: Arthur Weinberger, Aaron Malenfant, Jason Fedor, Jackson Roberts, Madhu Kallazhi Vasu, Bradley D. Townsend, Breen Baker, John Charles Simone, Ronak Parpani, Sean Michael Harrison
  • Patent number: 11170132
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, that protect analytics for resources of a publisher from traffic directed to such resources by malicious entities. An analytics server receives a first message that includes an encrypted token and analytics data for a publisher-provided resource. The token includes a portion of the analytics data and a trust score indicating a likelihood that activity on the resource is attributed to a human (rather than an automated process). The analytics server decrypts the token. The analytics server determines a trustworthiness measure for the analytics data included in the first message based on the trust score (in the decrypted token) and a comparison of the analytics data in the first message and the portion of the analytics data (in the decrypted token). Based on the measure of trustworthiness, the analytics server performs analytics operations using the analytics data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Arthur Weinberger, Aaron Malenfant, Jason Fedor, Jackson Roberts, Madhu Kallazhi Vasu, Bradley D. Townsend, Breen Baker, John Charles Simone, Ronak Parpani, Sean Michael Harrison
  • Patent number: 7925201
    Abstract: Sharing media content among families of broadcast stations includes receiving information relating to media content from families of broadcast stations, storing the information such that the information is accessible to at least two of the families of broadcast stations via a computer network, receiving a query for specific media content from a broadcast station, searching the stored information in accordance with the query to identify the specific media content; and enabling the broadcast station to access to the specific media content if the specific media content is identified among the stored information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2011
    Assignee: Wideorbit, Inc.
    Inventors: William Irvin, Chad E. Steelberg, Ryan S. Steelberg, Matt Chalawsky, Dipankar Gupta, Bradley D. Townsend, Jeffrey W. Houston
  • Publication number: 20080256080
    Abstract: Sharing media content among families of broadcast stations includes receiving information relating to media content from families of broadcast stations, storing the information such that the information is accessible to at least two of the families of broadcast stations via a computer network, receiving a query for specific media content from a broadcast station, searching the stored information in accordance with the query to identify the specific media content; and enabling the broadcast station to access to the specific media content if the specific media content is identified among the stored information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2007
    Publication date: October 16, 2008
    Inventors: William Irvin, Chad E. Steelberg, Ryan S. Steelberg, Matt Chalawsky, Dipankar Gupta, Bradley D. Townsend, Jeffrey W. Houston