Patents by Inventor Erfaun Noorani

Erfaun Noorani 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: 11960273
    Abstract: Embodiments described herein provide a supervisor for fault management at a production system. During operation, the supervisor can obtain a set of sensor readings and a state of the production system. A respective sensor reading is an output of a sensor in the production system. The supervisor can then determine, using an artificial intelligence (AI) model, whether the set of sensor readings accommodates a fault associated with a corresponding sensor. Subsequently, the supervisor can determine an action that mitigates an effect of the fault and modify the set of sensor readings based on the action. Here, the modified set of sensor readings is used by a controller that controls the production system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Christoforos Somarakis, Erfaun Noorani, Raman Goyal, Aleksandar B. Feldman, Shantanu Rane
  • Publication number: 20240080325
    Abstract: Embodiments described herein provide a design architecture for co-designing a controller and a watermarking signal for a cyber-physical system. During operation, the architecture can determine, in conjunction with each other, respective values of a first set of parameters indicating operations of the controller and a second set of parameters representing the watermarking signal. Here, the watermarking signal is combinable with a control signal from the controller for monitoring an output signal of the cyber-physical system for detecting malicious data at different time instances. Subsequently, the architecture can determine a state manager for determining the states of the cyber-physical system from the monitored output signal based on the first and second sets of parameters. The architecture can also determine a detector capable of identifying presence of an attack from the states of the cyber-physical system at a plurality of time instances using the watermarking signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2022
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Applicant: Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated
    Inventors: Raman Goyal, Christoforos Somarakis, Erfaun Noorani, Aleksandar B. Feldman, Shantanu Rane
  • Publication number: 20230400848
    Abstract: Embodiments described herein provide a supervisor for fault management at a production system. During operation, the supervisor can obtain a set of sensor readings and a state of the production system. A respective sensor reading is an output of a sensor in the production system. The supervisor can then determine, using an artificial intelligence (AI) model, whether the set of sensor readings accommodates a fault associated with a corresponding sensor. Subsequently, the supervisor can determine an action that mitigates an effect of the fault and modify the set of sensor readings based on the action. Here, the modified set of sensor readings is used by a controller that controls the production system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2022
    Publication date: December 14, 2023
    Applicant: Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated
    Inventors: Christoforos Somarakis, Erfaun Noorani, Raman Goyal, Aleksandar B. Feldman, Shantanu Rane
  • Patent number: 11363017
    Abstract: Systems and methods receive a first indication that an Internet of Things (IoT) device is attempting to access a home network; determine that the IoT device is a trusted device; store an identifier associated with the IoT device to a blockchain in response to determining that the IoT device is a trusted device; receive a second indication that an event has occurred with respect to the IoT device; determine whether the event is a major event; and verify the identifier associated with the IoT device by storing an identity and information associated with the event to the blockchain in response to determining that the event is a major event.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Michelle Zhou, Ying Wang, Wen-De T. Chang, Satya P. Yandra, Erfaun Noorani
  • Publication number: 20200186524
    Abstract: Systems and methods receive a first indication that an Internet of Things (IoT) device is attempting to access a home network; determine that the IoT device is a trusted device; store an identifier associated with the IoT device to a blockchain in response to determining that the IoT device is a trusted device; receive a second indication that an event has occurred with respect to the IoT device; determine whether the event is a major event; and verify the identifier associated with the IoT device by storing an identity and information associated with the event to the blockchain in response to determining that the event is a major event.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2018
    Publication date: June 11, 2020
    Inventors: Michelle Zhou, Ying Wang, Wen-De T. Chang, Satya P. Yandra, Erfaun Noorani