Patents by Inventor Doug Beeferman

Doug Beeferman 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: 10402828
    Abstract: Systems and methods include: implementing a first machine learning model to generate an output of a global digital threat score for an online activity based on an input of the collected digital event data; implementing a second machine learning model that generates a category inference of a category of digital fraud or a category of digital abuse from a plurality of digital fraud or digital abuse categories; selecting a third machine learning model from an ensemble of digital fraud or digital abuse machine learning models based on the category inference generated by the second machine learning model, wherein the ensemble of digital fraud or digital abuse machine learning models comprise a plurality of disparate digital fraud or digital abuse category-specific machine learning models; and implementing the selected third machine learning model to generate a digital fraud or digital abuse category-specific threat score based on the digital event data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Assignee: Sift Science, Inc.
    Inventors: Fred Sadaghiani, Alex Paino, Jacob Burnim, Keren Gu, Gary Lee, Noah Grant, Eugenia Ho, Doug Beeferman
  • Publication number: 20190236610
    Abstract: Systems and methods include: implementing a first machine learning model to generate an output of a global digital threat score for an online activity based on an input of the collected digital event data; implementing a second machine learning model that generates a category inference of a category of digital fraud or a category of digital abuse from a plurality of digital fraud or digital abuse categories; selecting a third machine learning model from an ensemble of digital fraud or digital abuse machine learning models based on the category inference generated by the second machine learning model, wherein the ensemble of digital fraud or digital abuse machine learning models comprise a plurality of disparate digital fraud or digital abuse category-specific machine learning models; and implementing the selected third machine learning model to generate a digital fraud or digital abuse category-specific threat score based on the digital event data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2019
    Publication date: August 1, 2019
    Inventors: Fred Sadaghiani, Alex Paino, Jacob Burnim, Keren Gu, Gary Lee, Noah Grant, Eugenia Ho, Doug Beeferman
  • Patent number: 10296912
    Abstract: Systems and methods include: implementing a first machine learning model to generate an output of a global digital threat score for an online activity based on an input of the collected digital event data; implementing a second machine learning model that generates a category inference of a category of digital fraud or a category of digital abuse from a plurality of digital fraud or digital abuse categories; selecting a third machine learning model from an ensemble of digital fraud or digital abuse machine learning models based on the category inference generated by the second machine learning model, wherein the ensemble of digital fraud or digital abuse machine learning models comprise a plurality of disparate digital fraud or digital abuse category-specific machine learning models; and implementing the selected third machine learning model to generate a digital fraud or digital abuse category-specific threat score based on the digital event data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: Sift Science, Inc.
    Inventors: Fred Sadaghiani, Alex Paino, Jacob Burnim, Keren Gu, Gary Lee, Noah Grant, Eugenia Ho, Doug Beeferman
  • Publication number: 20190034932
    Abstract: Systems and methods include: implementing a first machine learning model to generate an output of a global digital threat score for an online activity based on an input of the collected digital event data; implementing a second machine learning model that generates a category inference of a category of digital fraud or a category of digital abuse from a plurality of digital fraud or digital abuse categories; selecting a third machine learning model from an ensemble of digital fraud or digital abuse machine learning models based on the category inference generated by the second machine learning model, wherein the ensemble of digital fraud or digital abuse machine learning models comprise a plurality of disparate digital fraud or digital abuse category-specific machine learning models; and implementing the selected third machine learning model to generate a digital fraud or digital abuse category-specific threat score based on the digital event data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2018
    Publication date: January 31, 2019
    Inventors: Fred Sadaghiani, Alex Paino, Jacob Burnim, Keren Gu, Gary Lee, Noah Grant, Eugenia Ho, Doug Beeferman
  • Patent number: 10108962
    Abstract: Systems and methods include: implementing a first machine learning model to generate an output of a global digital threat score for an online activity based on an input of the collected digital event data; implementing a second machine learning model that generates a category inference of a category of digital fraud or a category of digital abuse from a plurality of digital fraud or digital abuse categories; selecting a third machine learning model from an ensemble of digital fraud or digital abuse machine learning models based on the category inference generated by the second machine learning model, wherein the ensemble of digital fraud or digital abuse machine learning models comprise a plurality of disparate digital fraud or digital abuse category-specific machine learning models; and implementing the selected third machine learning model to generate a digital fraud or digital abuse category-specific threat score based on the digital event data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2018
    Assignee: Sift Science, Inc.
    Inventors: Fred Sadaghiani, Alex Paino, Jacob Burnim, Keren Gu, Gary Lee, Noah Grant, Eugenia Ho, Doug Beeferman
  • Patent number: 9978067
    Abstract: Systems and methods include: collecting digital event data from at least one remote source of digital event data; using the collected digital event data as input into primary machine learning ensemble that predicts the likelihood of digital fraud and/or digital abuse; generating by the machine learning system the global digital threat score; identifying a sub-request for a specific digital threat score for a digital abuse type; in response to identifying the sub-request, providing the input of the collected digital event data to a secondary machine learning model ensemble of the machine learning system that predicts a likelihood of the identified digital abuse type; generating by the secondary machine learning ensemble the specific digital threat score for the digital abuse type based on the input of the collected digital event data; and transmitting the global digital threat score and the specific digital threat score for the identified digital abuse type.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2018
    Assignee: Sift Science, Inc.
    Inventors: Fred Sadaghiani, Alex Paino, Jacob Burnim, Keren Gu, Gary Lee, Noah Grant, Eugenia Ho, Doug Beeferman
  • Patent number: 8719079
    Abstract: Documents or document sets may be scored to reflect a value of an action, such as a selection for example, when an ad is served with the document (or a document belonging to a document set). A cost associated with the action with respect to an ad that was served with a document may then be adjusted using the score. For example, ad scores may be accepted or determined, and a document may be scored using the ad scores when served with the document and ad scores across a collection of documents to generate a document score. Each of the ad scores may indicate a value of an action with respect to an ad, such as a conversion rate, or a return on investment for an ad selection for example. Document scores used in this way may help advertisers get a more consistent cost per conversion, or return on investment, without requiring them to enter and manage various offers for various documents and/or various ad serving systems having various conversion rates or returns on investment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2014
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Brian Axe, Doug Beeferman, Amit Patel, Nathan Stoll, Hal Varian
  • Patent number: 8694499
    Abstract: A system determines query similarity. The system determines a volume per unit time of an issued first query over a time period and determines a volume per unit time of issued other queries over the time period. The system compares the volume per unit time of each of the issued other queries to the volume per unit time of the issued first query. The system identifies ones of the issued other queries as similar to the first query based on the comparison.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2014
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Shumeet Baluja, Doug Beeferman, Andrew R Golding
  • Publication number: 20140032335
    Abstract: Documents or document sets may be scored to reflect a value of an action, such as a selection for example, when an ad is served with the document (or a document belonging to a document set). A cost associated with the action with respect to an ad that was served with a document may then be adjusted using the score. For example, ad scores may be accepted or determined, and a document may be scored using the ad scores when served with the document and ad scores across a collection of documents to generate a document score. Each of the ad scores may indicate a value of an action with respect to an ad, such as a conversion rate, or a return on investment for an ad selection for example. Document scores used in this way may help advertisers get a more consistent cost per conversion, or return on investment, without requiring them to enter and manage various offers for various documents and/or various ad serving systems having various conversion rates or returns on investment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2013
    Publication date: January 30, 2014
    Applicant: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Brian AXE, Doug BEEFERMAN, Amit PATEL, Nathan STOLL, Hal VARIAN
  • Patent number: 8494900
    Abstract: Documents or document sets may be scored to reflect a value of an action, such as a selection for example, when an ad is served with the document (or a document belonging to a document set). A cost associated with the action with respect to an ad that was served with a document may then be adjusted using the score. For example, ad scores may be accepted or determined, and a document may be scored using the ad scores when served with the document and ad scores across a collection of documents to generate a document score. Each of the ad scores may indicate a value of an action with respect to an ad, such as a conversion rate, or a return on investment for an ad selection for example. Document scores used in this way may help advertisers get a more consistent cost per conversion, or return on investment, without requiring them to enter and manage various offers for various documents and/or various ad serving systems having various conversion rates or returns on investment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2013
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Brian Axe, Doug Beeferman, Amit Patel, Nathan Stoll, Hal Varian
  • Patent number: 8312137
    Abstract: This disclosure generally relates to assigning and simultaneously running multiple client-side experiments on client devices. A file includes information regarding experiments that are available, including information regarding “layers,” which are logical, imaginary containers in which each experiment “resides.” Each experiment is associated with one layer. For each experiment, the file includes information regarding a location and size of the experiment within the layer. When the client device takes an action, a software module identifies a value of an identifier associated with the action. Each such identifier is associated with one or more of the layers. The software module can calculate, for each of the associated layers, a location within the layer based on the identifier value. The computer software module can identify, based on the information in the file, each experiment that overlaps with the calculated location within each layer and cause each identified experiment to be activated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2012
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Matthew Lloyd, Doug Beeferman
  • Patent number: 8024337
    Abstract: A system determines query similarity. The system determines a volume per unit time of an issued first query over a time period and determines a volume per unit time of issued other queries over the time period. The system compares the volume per unit time of each of the issued other queries to the volume per unit time of the issued first query. The system identifies ones of the issued other queries as similar to the first query based on the comparison.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2011
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Shumeet Baluja, Doug Beeferman, Andrew R. Golding
  • Publication number: 20060004628
    Abstract: Documents or document sets may be scored to reflect a value of an action, such as a selection for example, when an ad is served with the document (or a document belonging to a document set). A cost associated with the action with respect to an ad that was served with a document may then be adjusted using the score. For example, ad scores may be accepted or determined, and a document may be scored using the ad scores when served with the document and ad scores across a collection of documents to generate a document score. Each of the ad scores may indicate a value of an action with respect to an ad, such as a conversion rate, or a return on investment for an ad selection for example. Document scores used in this way may help advertisers get a more consistent cost per conversion, or return on investment, without requiring them to enter and manage various offers for various documents and/or various ad serving systems having various conversion rates or returns on investment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2004
    Publication date: January 5, 2006
    Inventors: Brian Axe, Doug Beeferman, Amit Patel, Nathan Stoll, Hal Varian