Patents by Inventor Evan Gaustad

Evan Gaustad 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: 11818159
    Abstract: Techniques are provided for assessing and determining risks that are posed by various users to a website. The determined risk for each user can be used to modify the user experience of the website in a manner that is commensurate with the risk (or non-risk) posed by the user. Assessment of risks posed a website guest can be performed by collecting guest-related data from a plurality of different service engines, aggregating contextual information from the guest-related data, and calculating a risk score based on the contextual information. The risk score can represent the internal reputation of the guest using the guest device. The risk score can be transmitted to a remote computing device and used to modify content of the website according to the risk score. Further, a recommended action can be determined based on the risk score, which can be taken by a backend service for the website guest.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: Target Brands, Inc.
    Inventors: Troy T. Miller, Erik Thoreson, Matt Clark, Nidhi Agarwal, Rachit Singhal, Suhas Chakravarthi, Vinod Joseph, Abhayjeet Singh, Timothy James Hruska, Evan Gaustad
  • Publication number: 20210185076
    Abstract: Techniques are provided for assessing and determining risks that are posed by various users to a website. The determined risk for each user can be used to modify the user experience of the website in a manner that is commensurate with the risk (or non-risk) posed by the user. Assessment of risks posed a website guest can be performed by collecting guest-related data from a plurality of different service engines, aggregating contextual information from the guest-related data, and calculating a risk score based on the contextual information. The risk score can represent the internal reputation of the guest using the guest device. The risk score can be transmitted to a remote computing device and used to modify content of the website according to the risk score. Further, a recommended action can be determined based on the risk score, which can be taken by a backend service for the website guest.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2020
    Publication date: June 17, 2021
    Inventors: Troy T. Miller, Erik Thoreson, Matt Clark, Nidhi Agarwal, Rachit Singhal, Suhas Chakravarthi, Vinod Joseph, Abhayjeet Singh, Timothy James Hruska, Evan Gaustad
  • Patent number: 10817603
    Abstract: In some implementations, a method performed by data processing apparatuses includes receiving a new script document in a scripting language that has not yet been classified; identifying features of the new script document, wherein at least some of the features are script-language commands contained in the new script document; generating first feature-data for the new script document, the first feature-data comprising measures of frequency of occurrences of the features within the new script document; and assigning a classification to the new script document based on a comparison of the first feature-data with training data that comprises second feature-data for known-malicious script documents and third feature-data for known-benign script documents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: Target Brands, Inc.
    Inventor: Evan Gaustad
  • Publication number: 20190065744
    Abstract: In some implementations, a method performed by data processing apparatuses includes receiving a new script document in a scripting language that has not yet been classified; identifying features of the new script document, wherein at least some of the features are script-language commands contained in the new script document; generating first feature-data for the new script document, the first feature-data comprising measures of frequency of occurrences of the features within the new script document; and assigning a classification to the new script document based on a comparison of the first feature-data with training data that comprises second feature-data for known-malicious script documents and third feature-data for known-benign script documents.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2018
    Publication date: February 28, 2019
    Inventor: Evan Gaustad