Patents by Inventor Eric Yocam

Eric Yocam 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: 20240104679
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for identification management, are disclosed. In one aspect, a method includes the actions of receiving, at a given time, a request to verify an identity of a user and a location of the user. The actions further include, in response to the request to verify the identity of the user, identifying a computing device associated with the user. The actions further include determining a previous time and a previous location that computing device verified the identity of the user. The actions further include, based on the given time, the location of the user, the previous time, and the previous location, determining whether to output data verifying the identity of the user at the location.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventor: Eric Yocam
  • Publication number: 20240037275
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for implementing a privacy manager are disclosed. In one aspect, a method includes the actions of receiving, from a client device, an indication of a first setting of the client device. The actions further include receiving, from the client device, an indication of a type of data that the client device is prepared to transmit. The actions further include, based on the first setting and the type of data, generating an instruction to adjust the first setting or a second setting of the client device. The actions further include, before the client device transmits the data, providing, for output to the client device, the instruction to adjust the first setting or the second setting of the client device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2023
    Publication date: February 1, 2024
    Inventors: Ahmad Arash Obaidi, Eric Yocam
  • Patent number: 11836270
    Abstract: Systems and methods for privacy breach notification and protection enabled by the Internet of Things (IoT) are provided. Some embodiments establish a passive early warning privacy-breach detection from laser beam scan capability on a mobile device and IoT device when a particular owned object (or set of owned objects) has been laser scanned. Sensor information (e.g., laser beam sensing transparent adhesive tape, automotive cameras and proximity sensors) can be used to create notifications that allow a user to take action or to have peace of mind relating to particular activities such as to avoid fees and fines, to recover lost objects, to confirm known events, and to trigger activity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: T-Mobile USA, Inc.
    Inventors: Eric Yocam, Richard White, Damon Laursen
  • Patent number: 11783082
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for implementing a privacy manager are disclosed. In one aspect, a method includes the actions of receiving, from a client device, an indication of a first setting of the client device. The actions further include receiving, from the client device, an indication of a type of data that the client device is prepared to transmit. The actions further include, based on the first setting and the type of data, generating an instruction to adjust the first setting or a second setting of the client device. The actions further include, before the client device transmits the data, providing, for output to the client device, the instruction to adjust the first setting or the second setting of the client device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: T-Mobile USA, Inc.
    Inventors: Ahmad Arash Obaidi, Eric Yocam
  • Patent number: 11756438
    Abstract: Systems and methods for aerial unmanned vehicle (for example, drone) early warning privacy breach detection, interception, and defense are disclosed. The system detects drones within a threshold distance of an individual or configurable location, notifies the individual of the drones' existence, tracks the drones, and executes countermeasures. The system can communicate with telecommunication networks or other sources (for example, FAA) to identify and filter out drones that are authorized to be in the airspace around the individual.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: T-Mobile USA, Inc.
    Inventors: Eric Yocam, Damon Laursen
  • Publication number: 20230053277
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for detecting modified media are disclosed. In one aspect, a method includes the actions of receiving an item of media content. The actions further include providing the item as an input to a model that is configured to determine whether the item likely includes audio of a user's voice that was not spoken by the user or likely includes video of the user that depicts actions of the user that were not performed by the user. The actions further include receiving, from the model, data indicating whether the item likely includes audio of the user's voice that was not spoken by the user or includes video of the user that depicts actions of the user that were not performed by the user. The actions further include determining whether the item likely includes deepfake content.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2022
    Publication date: February 16, 2023
    Inventors: Eric Yocam, Ahmad Arash Obaidi
  • Patent number: 11514342
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for detecting modified media are disclosed. In one aspect, a method includes the actions of receiving an item of media content. The actions further include providing the item as an input to a model that is configured to determine whether the item likely includes audio of a user's voice that was not spoken by the user or likely includes video of the user that depicts actions of the user that were not performed by the user. The actions further include receiving, from the model, data indicating whether the item likely includes audio of the user's voice that was not spoken by the user or includes video of the user that depicts actions of the user that were not performed by the user. The actions further include determining whether the item likely includes deepfake content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: T-Mobile USA, Inc.
    Inventors: Eric Yocam, Ahmad Arash Obaidi
  • Patent number: 11418949
    Abstract: A video stream from a user device that is destined for a recipient device is received at a core network of a wireless carrier network. The video stream has a video quality that at least meets a quality threshold for behavioral biometric analysis. A determination of whether a video privacy policy for the user device permits transmission of the video stream of the video quality to the recipient device is made. In response to the video privacy policy not permitting the transmission of the video stream of the video quality, the video quality of the video stream is downgraded to generate a downgraded video stream that prevents behavioral biometric analysis for transmission to the recipient device. However, in response to the video privacy policy permitting the transmission of the video stream of the video quality, the video stream of the video quality is transmitted to the recipient device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: T-Mobile USA, Inc.
    Inventors: Eric Yocam, Ahmad Arash Obaidi
  • Patent number: 11375378
    Abstract: A request from a user device to register as a secure endpoint device of a secure local area network (LAN) is received by a wireless carrier network. A device type of the user device is identified by the network based on device identification information provided by the user device. A data protection policy that corresponds to the device type of the user device is sent to a secure endpoint application on the user device following a registration of the user device as a secure endpoint device by the network, in which the data protection policy includes an Access Point Name (APN). The user device allocated a network slice of the wireless carrier network that corresponds to the APN to the user device. Subsequently, a data file is transported from the user device to an additional secure endpoint device via the network slice that is allocated to the user device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: T-Mobile USA, Inc.
    Inventors: Ahmad Arash Obaidi, Eric Yocam, Paul Farag
  • Publication number: 20220157181
    Abstract: Systems and methods for aerial unmanned vehicle (for example, drone) early warning privacy breach detection, interception, and defense are disclosed. The system detects drones within a threshold distance of an individual or configurable location, notifies the individual of the drones' existence, tracks the drones, and executes countermeasures. The system can communicate with telecommunication networks or other sources (for example, FAA) to identify and filter out drones that are authorized to be in the airspace around the individual.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 2, 2022
    Publication date: May 19, 2022
    Inventors: Eric Yocam, Damon Laursen
  • Publication number: 20220138882
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for identitying management, are disclosed. In one aspect, a method includes the actions of receiving, at a given time, a request to verify an identity of a user and a location of the user. The actions further include, in response to the request to verify the identity of the user, identifying a computing device associated with the user. The actions further include determining a previous time and a previous location that computing device verified the identity of the user. The actions further include, based on the given time, the location of the user, the previous time, and the previous location, determining whether to output data verifying the identity of the user at the location.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2020
    Publication date: May 5, 2022
    Inventor: Eric Yocam
  • Publication number: 20220121773
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for implementing a privacy manager are disclosed. In one aspect, a method includes the actions of receiving, from a client device, an indication of a first setting of the client device. The actions further include receiving, from the client device, an indication of a type of data that the client device is prepared to transmit. The actions further include, based on the first setting and the type of data, generating an instruction to adjust the first setting or a second setting of the client device. The actions further include, before the client device transmits the data, providing, for output to the client device, the instruction to adjust the first setting or the second setting of the client device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2020
    Publication date: April 21, 2022
    Inventors: Ahmad Arash Obaidi, Eric Yocam
  • Patent number: 11270595
    Abstract: Systems and methods for aerial unmanned vehicle (for example, drone) early warning privacy breach detection, interception, and defense are disclosed. The system detects drones within a threshold distance of an individual or configurable location, notifies the individual of the drones' existence, tracks the drones, and executes countermeasures. The system can communicate with telecommunication networks or other sources (for example, FAA) to identify and filter out drones that are authorized to be in the airspace around the individual.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: T-Mobile USA, Inc.
    Inventors: Eric Yocam, Damon Laursen
  • Publication number: 20210406719
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for detecting modified media are disclosed. In one aspect, a method includes the actions of receiving an item of media content. The actions further include providing the item as an input to a model that is configured to determine whether the item likely includes audio of a user's voice that was not spoken by the user or likely includes video of the user that depicts actions of the user that were not performed by the user. The actions further include receiving, from the model, data indicating whether the item likely includes audio of the user's voice that was not spoken by the user or includes video of the user that depicts actions of the user that were not performed by the user. The actions further include determining whether the item likely includes deepfake content.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2020
    Publication date: December 30, 2021
    Inventors: Eric Yocam, Ahmad Arash Obaidi
  • Publication number: 20210360394
    Abstract: A video stream from a user device that is destined for a recipient device is received at a core network of a wireless carrier network. The video stream has a video quality that at least meets a quality threshold for behavioral biometric analysis. A determination of whether a video privacy policy for the user device permits transmission of the video stream of the video quality to the recipient device is made. In response to the video privacy policy not permitting the transmission of the video stream of the video quality, the video quality of the video stream is downgraded to generate a downgraded video stream that prevents behavioral biometric analysis for transmission to the recipient device. However, in response to the video privacy policy permitting the transmission of the video stream of the video quality, the video stream of the video quality is transmitted to the recipient device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2020
    Publication date: November 18, 2021
    Inventors: Eric Yocam, Ahmad Arash Obaidi
  • Publication number: 20210248265
    Abstract: Systems and methods for privacy breach notification and protection enabled by the Internet of Things (IoT) are provided. Some embodiments establish a passive early warning privacy-breach detection from laser beam scan capability on a mobile device and IoT device when a particular owned object (or set of owned objects) has been laser scanned. Sensor information (e.g., laser beam sensing transparent adhesive tape, automotive cameras and proximity sensors) can be used to create notifications that allow a user to take action or to have peace of mind relating to particular activities such as to avoid fees and fines, to recover lost objects, to confirm known events, and to trigger activity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2021
    Publication date: August 12, 2021
    Inventors: Eric Yocam, Richard White, Damon Laursen
  • Patent number: 11023613
    Abstract: Systems and methods for privacy breach notification and protection enabled by the Internet of Things (IoT) are provided. Some embodiments establish a passive early warning privacy-breach detection from laser beam scan capability on a mobile device and IoT device when a particular owned object (or set of owned objects) has been laser scanned. Sensor information (e.g., laser beam sensing transparent adhesive tape, automotive cameras and proximity sensors) can be used to create notifications that allow a user to take action or to have peace of mind relating to particular activities such as to avoid fees and fines, to recover lost objects, to confirm known events, and to trigger activity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: T-Mobile USA, Inc.
    Inventors: Eric Yocam, Richard White, Damon Laursen
  • Publication number: 20210136569
    Abstract: A request from a user device to register as a secure endpoint device of a secure local area network (LAN) is received by a wireless carrier network. A device type of the user device is identified by the network based on device identification information provided by the user device. A data protection policy that corresponds to the device type of the user device is sent to a secure endpoint application on the user device following a registration of the user device as a secure endpoint device by the network, in which the data protection policy includes an Access Point Name (APN). The user device allocated a network slice of the wireless carrier network that corresponds to the APN to the user device. Subsequently, a data file is transported from the user device to an additional secure endpoint device via the network slice that is allocated to the user device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2019
    Publication date: May 6, 2021
    Inventors: Ahmad Arash Obaidi, Eric Yocam, Paul Farag
  • Publication number: 20200111374
    Abstract: Systems and methods for aerial unmanned vehicle (for example, drone) early warning privacy breach detection, interception, and defense are disclosed. The system detects drones within a threshold distance of an individual or configurable location, notifies the individual of the drones' existence, tracks the drones, and executes countermeasures. The system can communicate with telecommunication networks or other sources (for example, FAA) to identify and filter out drones that are authorized to be in the airspace around the individual.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2018
    Publication date: April 9, 2020
    Inventors: Eric Yocam, Damon Laursen
  • Publication number: 20190286845
    Abstract: Systems and methods for privacy breach notification and protection enabled by the Internet of Things (IoT) are provided. Some embodiments establish a passive early warning privacy-breach detection from laser beam scan capability on a mobile device and IoT device when a particular owned object (or set of owned objects) has been laser scanned. Sensor information (e.g., laser beam sensing transparent adhesive tape, automotive cameras and proximity sensors) can be used to create notifications that allow a user to take action or to have peace of mind relating to particular activities such as to avoid fees and fines, to recover lost objects, to confirm known events, and to trigger activity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2019
    Publication date: September 19, 2019
    Inventors: Eric Yocam, Richard White, Damon Laursen