Patents by Inventor Hal Lonas

Hal Lonas 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: 20240119178
    Abstract: Systems and methods for anonymizing personal information are provided. A set of data may be received that includes a first subset of data that corresponds to a unique identifier, a second subset of data that corresponds to a timestamp, and a third subset of data that corresponds to a personal identifiable information (PII) record. The PII record may include a plurality of fields, one or more of which may include values. The set of data may be pre-processed. A respective embedding may be generated, for each value of a respective field, of the plurality of fields, that includes a value. The pre-processed set of data may be anonymized to generate an anonymized set of data, in the form of a graph structure. The graph structure may be stored in a database, and a fraud risk model may be trained, based on the database.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2023
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Inventors: Mauritius Schmidtler, Hal Lonas, Chahm An, Nathan Russo, Etienne Doidic
  • Publication number: 20240031377
    Abstract: Examples of the present disclosure describe systems and methods of providing real-time scanning of IP addresses. In aspects, input may be received by a real-time IP scanning system. The system may generate one or more work orders based on the input. A scanner associated with the system may access a work order and attempt to communicate with one or more devices identified by the work order. If the attempted communication with a device is successful, a protocol analyzer may be used to provide a predefined payload to the device. If the response from the device matches an expected string, the device may be determined to be a safe and/or legitimate device. If the response from the device does not match an expected string, the device may be determined to be a malicious device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2023
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Inventors: Huy Dang Ho, Hal Lonas, Trung Tran
  • Patent number: 11811785
    Abstract: Examples of the present disclosure describe systems and methods of providing real-time scanning of IP addresses. In aspects, input may be received by a real-time IP scanning system. The system may generate one or more work orders based on the input. A scanner associated with the system may access a work order and attempt to communicate with one or more devices identified by the work order. If the attempted communication with a device is successful, a protocol analyzer may be used to provide a predefined payload to the device. If the response from the device matches an expected string, the device may be determined to be a safe and/or legitimate device. If the response from the device does not match an expected string, the device may be determined to be a malicious device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: OPEN TEXT INC
    Inventors: Huy Dang Ho, Hal Lonas, Trung Tran
  • Publication number: 20230040895
    Abstract: A method and system for controlling access to an Internet resource is disclosed herein. When a request for an Internet resource, such as a Web site, is transmitted by an end-user of a LAN, a security appliance for the LAN analyzes a reputation index for the Internet resource before transmitting the request over the Internet. The reputation index is based on a plurality of factors for the Internet resource. A client application's access to the Internet resource can be allowed or denied based on the reputation index of the Internet resource.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2022
    Publication date: February 9, 2023
    Inventors: Ron Hegli, Hal Lonas, Christopher K. Harris
  • Patent number: 11489857
    Abstract: A method and system for controlling access to an Internet resource is disclosed herein. When a request for an Internet resource, such as a Web site, is transmitted by an end-user of a LAN, a security appliance for the LAN analyzes a reputation index for the Internet resource before transmitting the request over the Internet. The reputation index is based on a reputation vector which includes a plurality of factors for the Internet resource such as country of domain registration, country of service hosting, country of an internet protocol address block, age of a domain registration, popularity rank, internet protocol address, number of hosts, to-level domain, a plurality of run-time behaviors, JavaScript block count, picture count, immediate redirect and response latency. If the reputation index for the Internet resource is at or above a threshold value established for the LAN, then access to the Internet resource is permitted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: Webroot Inc.
    Inventors: Ron Hegli, Hal Lonas, Christopher K. Harris
  • Publication number: 20220200956
    Abstract: A firewall monitors network activity and stores information about that network activity in a network activity log. The network activity is analyzed to identify a potential threat. The potential threat is further analyzed to identify other potential threats that are related to the potential threat, and are likely to pose a future risk to a protected network. A block list is updated to include the potential threat and the other potential threats to protect the protected network from the potential threat and the other potential threats.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2022
    Publication date: June 23, 2022
    Inventors: Hal Lonas, David Dufour, Chip Witt, Patrick Kar Yin Chang
  • Publication number: 20220030007
    Abstract: Examples of the present disclosure describe systems and methods of providing real-time scanning of IP addresses. In aspects, input may be received by a real-time IP scanning system. The system may generate one or more work orders based on the input. A scanner associated with the system may access a work order and attempt to communicate with one or more devices identified by the work order. If the attempted communication with a device is successful, a protocol analyzer may be used to provide a predefined payload to the device. If the response from the device matches an expected string, the device may be determined to be a safe and/or legitimate device. If the response from the device does not match an expected string, the device may be determined to be a malicious device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2021
    Publication date: January 27, 2022
    Inventors: Huy Dang Ho, Hal Lonas, Trung Tran
  • Patent number: 11153329
    Abstract: Examples of the present disclosure describe systems and methods of providing real-time scanning of IP addresses. In aspects, input may be received by a real-time IP scanning system. The system may generate one or more work orders based on the input. A scanner associated with the system may access a work order and attempt to communicate with one or more devices identified by the work order. If the attempted communication with a device is successful, a protocol analyzer may be used to provide a predefined payload to the device. If the response from the device matches an expected string, the device may be determined to be a safe and/or legitimate device. If the response from the device does not match an expected string, the device may be determined to be a malicious device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: WEBROOT INC.
    Inventors: Huy Dang Ho, Hal Lonas, Trung Tran
  • Publication number: 20200336459
    Abstract: A firewall monitors network activity and stores information about that network activity in a network activity log. The network activity is analyzed to identify a potential threat. The potential threat is further analyzed to identify other potential threats that are related to the potential threat, and are likely to pose a future risk to a protected network. A block list is updated to include the potential threat and the other potential threats to protect the protected network from the potential threat and the other potential threats.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 7, 2020
    Publication date: October 22, 2020
    Inventors: Hal Lonas, David Dufour, Chip Witt, Patrick Kar Yin Chang
  • Patent number: 10735401
    Abstract: Examples of the present disclosure describe systems and methods of determining online identity reputation. In aspects, an online identity of an entity may engage in online interactions. The content provided by the online identity may be accessed and analyzed to determine interaction characteristics and reputation metrics for the online identity. Based on the reputation metrics, the online identity and/or entity (and content therefrom) may be filtered from further online interactions. In some aspects, interaction data may be stored in a data store. An interaction mapping component having access to the data store may analyze the data store data to determine mappings between online identities, entities and interactions. In at least one aspect, an opt-in certificate system may also be provided. The opt-in system may provide an online identity or entity a certificate to securely validate identity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignee: Webroot Inc.
    Inventor: Hal Lonas
  • Patent number: 10686759
    Abstract: A firewall monitors network activity and stores information about that network activity in a network activity log. The network activity is analyzed to identify a potential threat. The potential threat is further analyzed to identify other potential threats that are related to the potential threat, and are likely to pose a future risk to a protected network. A block list is updated to include the potential threat and the other potential threats to protect the protected network from the potential threat and the other potential threats.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2020
    Assignee: Webroot, Inc.
    Inventors: Hal Lonas, David Dufour, Chip Witt, Patrick Kar Yin Chang
  • Publication number: 20200186541
    Abstract: Examples of the present disclosure describe systems and methods of providing real-time scanning of IP addresses. In aspects, input may be received by a real-time IP scanning system. The system may generate one or more work orders based on the input. A scanner associated with the system may access a work order and attempt to communicate with one or more devices identified by the work order. If the attempted communication with a device is successful, a protocol analyzer may be used to provide a predefined payload to the device. If the response from the device matches an expected string, the device may be determined to be a safe and/or legitimate device. If the response from the device does not match an expected string, the device may be determined to be a malicious device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2020
    Publication date: June 11, 2020
    Inventors: Huy Dang Ho, Hal Lonas, Trung Tran
  • Patent number: 10567396
    Abstract: Examples of the present disclosure describe systems and methods of providing real-time scanning of IP addresses. In aspects, input may be received by a real-time IP scanning system. The system may generate one or more work orders based on the input. A scanner associated with the system may access a work order and attempt to communicate with one or more devices identified by the work order. If the attempted communication with a device is successful, a protocol analyzer may be used to provide a predefined payload to the device. If the response from the device matches an expected string, the device may be determined to be a safe and/or legitimate device. If the response from the device does not match an expected string, the device may be determined to be a malicious device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Assignee: Webroot Inc.
    Inventors: Huy Dang Ho, Hal Lonas, Trung Tran
  • Patent number: 10484400
    Abstract: Examples of the present disclosure describe systems and methods for generating dynamic sensors. In aspects, a device may be detected on a network. If the device is not recognized by the network, a generic container may be created. If the device is recognized by the network, a device-specific container may be created, and device-specific threat protection and/or a device-specific machine model may be loaded into the container. In either case, a threat intelligence model and/or an ecosystem-specific machine model may also be loaded into the container. The container may then be deployed to one or more networks. In aspects, the container may be used to analyze network traffic to sense potential threats for ecosystems comprising varying devices and topologies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: Webroot Inc.
    Inventors: David Dufour, Hal Lonas
  • Publication number: 20180077146
    Abstract: Examples of the present disclosure describe systems and methods of determining online identity reputation. In aspects, an online identity of an entity may engage in online interactions. The content provided by the online identity may be accessed and analyzed to determine interaction characteristics and reputation metrics for the online identity. Based on the reputation metrics, the online identity and/or entity (and content therefrom) may be filtered from further online interactions. In some aspects, interaction data may be stored in a data store. An interaction mapping component having access to the data store may analyze the data store data to determine mappings between online identities, entities and interactions. In at least one aspect, an opt-in certificate system may also be provided. The opt-in system may provide an online identity or entity a certificate to securely validate identity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2016
    Publication date: March 15, 2018
    Applicant: Webroot Inc.
    Inventor: Hal Lonas
  • Publication number: 20180026995
    Abstract: Examples of the present disclosure describe systems and methods for generating dynamic sensors. In aspects, a device may be detected on a network. If the device is not recognized by the network, a generic container may be created. If the device is recognized by the network, a device-specific container may be created, and device-specific threat protection and/or a device-specific machine model may be loaded into the container. In either case, a threat intelligence model and/or an ecosystem-specific machine model may also be loaded into the container. The container may then be deployed to one or more networks. In aspects, the container may be used to analyze network traffic to sense potential threats for ecosystems comprising varying devices and topologies.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2017
    Publication date: January 25, 2018
    Applicant: Webroot Inc.
    Inventors: David Dufour, Hal Lonas
  • Publication number: 20170171221
    Abstract: Examples of the present disclosure describe systems and methods of providing real-time scanning of IP addresses. In aspects, input may be received by a real-time IP scanning system. The system may generate one or more work orders based on the input. A scanner associated with the system may access a work order and attempt to communicate with one or more devices identified by the work order. If the attempted communication with a device is successful, a protocol analyzer may be used to provide a predefined payload to the device. If the response from the device matches an expected string, the device may be determined to be a safe and/or legitimate device. If the response from the device does not match an expected string, the device may be determined to be a malicious device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2016
    Publication date: June 15, 2017
    Applicant: Webroot Inc.
    Inventors: Huy Dang Ho, Hal Lonas, Trung Tran
  • Patent number: 9558241
    Abstract: A method and system a method for compressing and searching a plurality of strings. The method includes inputting a plurality of strings into a compression engine. The method also includes converting each of the plurality of strings into a new, prefix-preserving compressed string, using the compression engine. For every string P that is a strict prefix of a string S, P's resulting compressed string is a strict prefix of S's resulting compressed string.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2017
    Assignee: Webroot Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher Harris, Hal Lonas
  • Publication number: 20160055213
    Abstract: A method and system a method for compressing and searching a plurality of strings. The method includes inputting a plurality of strings into a compression engine. The method also includes converting each of the plurality of strings into a new, prefix-preserving compressed string, using the compression engine. For every string P that is a strict prefix of a string S, P's resulting compressed string is a strict prefix of S's resulting compressed string.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2015
    Publication date: February 25, 2016
    Applicant: WEBROOT INC.
    Inventors: Christopher Harris, Hal Lonas
  • Publication number: 20150372976
    Abstract: A firewall monitors network activity and stores information about that network activity in a network activity log. The network activity is analyzed to identify a potential threat. The potential threat is further analyzed to identify other potential threats that are related to the potential threat, and are likely to pose a future risk to a protected network. A block list is updated to include the potential threat and the other potential threats to protect the protected network from the potential threat and the other potential threats.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2015
    Publication date: December 24, 2015
    Inventors: Hal Lonas, David Dufour, Chip Witt