Patents by Inventor Eric Howes

Eric Howes 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: 20240333671
    Abstract: Systems and methods are described herein for global blocklist curation based on crowdsourced indicators of compromise (IoC). One or more servers store the messages reported as suspicious into a message collection system. The server(s) classify he messages as one of clean, spam or threat. The server(s)) tag the messages responsive to the classification and determine a plurality of IoC from the messages classified and tagged as a threat. The server(s) determine one or more metrics for each of the plurality of IoC and selected, based at least on the one or more metrics, one or more of the plurality of IoC as blocklist entry (BLE) candidates.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2024
    Publication date: October 3, 2024
    Applicant: KnowBe4, Inc.
    Inventors: Anand Dinkar Bodke, Mark William Patton, Eric Howes, Steffan Perry
  • Publication number: 20240236098
    Abstract: Described herein are systems and methods to provide for blocklist recommendations based on reported threats. In an example embodiment, a method is described for receiving a selection of one or more messages from a plurality of messages identified as threats and identifying, based at least on the one or more messages, one or more candidate blocklist entries (BLEs). The method further includes determining, based at least on the one or more candidate BLEs, a recommendation of one or more BLEs to add to a blocklist. The method includes adding, by the one or more servers, the one or more BLEs to the blocklist, where the blocklist is used by an email system to block messages that match at least the one or more BLEs on the blocklist.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2023
    Publication date: July 11, 2024
    Applicant: KnowBe4, Inc.
    Inventors: Anand Dinkar Bodke, Eric Howes, Mark William Patton, Greg Kras, Christopher Cline, Brandon Scott Smith, Steffan Perry