Patents by Inventor Foster John Provost

Foster John Provost 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: 20190182621
    Abstract: Privacy-sensitive methods, systems, and media for geo-social targeting are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2018
    Publication date: June 13, 2019
    Applicant: Dstillery, Inc.
    Inventors: Foster John PROVOST, Alan MURRAY
  • Publication number: 20100205057
    Abstract: Privacy-sensitive methods, systems, and media for targeting online advertisements using brand affinity modeling are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2010
    Publication date: August 12, 2010
    Inventors: Rodney Hook, Foster John Provost, Brian May, Brian Dalessandro
  • Patent number: 5790645
    Abstract: A technique for automatically designing a fraud detection system using a series of machine learning methods. Data mining and constructive induction are combined with more standard machine learning techniques to design methods for detecting fraudulent usage based on profiling customer behavior. Specifically, a rule-learning is used to uncover indicators of fraudulent behavior from a large user database. These indicators are used to create profilers, which then serve as features to the fraud detection system that combines evidence from multiple profilers to generate high-confidence intervention activities when the system is deployed on-line with user data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 1996
    Date of Patent: August 4, 1998
    Assignee: NYNEX Science & Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Tom Elliott Fawcett, Foster John Provost