Patents by Inventor Hossein Hamooni

Hossein Hamooni 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: 20220391963
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method includes: generating a plurality of candidate groups based on transaction data associated with each user of a plurality of users, each candidate group of the plurality of candidate groups including a subset of users that conducted transactions with a common merchant within a threshold time; generating a plurality of actual groups based on the plurality of candidate groups and the transaction data associated with each user of the plurality of users, each actual group of the plurality of actual groups including a subset of users grouped together in at least a threshold plurality of candidate groups; and for an actual group of the plurality of actual groups, determining a classification associated with a merchant for the actual group based on transaction data for transactions conducted between the merchant and each user of the actual group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2019
    Publication date: December 8, 2022
    Inventors: Mina Ghashami, Hossein Hamooni
  • Patent number: 11481485
    Abstract: Methods for detecting insider threats are disclosed. A method includes collecting server access data and application access data, based on the server access data and the application access data, determining nearest neighbors of an employee, and based on the nearest neighbors of the employee, determining a peer group of the employee, determining an average rank distance (ARD) of the nearest neighbors based on a ranking of the nearest neighbors in a plurality of time periods, identifying ARD gaps between the nearest neighbors, and generating scores corresponding to the ARD gaps between the nearest neighbors. One or more employees are identified that represent an internal threat to an organization based on the scores corresponding to the ARD gaps.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: VISA INTERNATIONAL SERVICE ASSOCIATION
    Inventors: Yuhang Wu, Yanhong Wu, Hossein Hamooni, Yu-San Lin, Hao Yang
  • Publication number: 20220253853
    Abstract: Provided is a method that includes determining cuisine type classifiers based on merchant data, receiving transaction data associated with each payment transaction of a plurality of payment transactions involving a plurality of merchants and a plurality of consumers; determining, with at least one processor, a plurality of cuisine type labels based on a plurality of merchant names associated with the plurality of payment transactions or a portion of the plurality of payment transactions, wherein a cuisine type label identifies a cuisine type provided by a respective merchant of the plurality of merchants; generating a merchant cuisine type model from the transaction data to determine a cuisine type label of a merchant, the merchant cuisine type model based on the transaction data, and makes an inference based on a combination of merchant or consumer features associated with a payment transaction of the plurality of payment transactions; and automatically predicting one or more cuisine type classifications usi
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2022
    Publication date: August 11, 2022
    Inventors: Hossein Hamooni, Himel Dev
  • Patent number: 11334892
    Abstract: Provided is a method that includes determining cuisine type classifiers based on merchant data, receiving transaction data associated with each payment transaction of a plurality of payment transactions involving a plurality of merchants and a plurality of consumers; determining, with at least one processor, a plurality of cuisine type labels based on a plurality of merchant names associated with the plurality of payment transactions or a portion of the plurality of payment transactions, wherein a cuisine type label identifies a cuisine type provided by a respective merchant of the plurality of merchants; generating a merchant cuisine type model from the transaction data to determine a cuisine type label of a merchant, the merchant cuisine type model based on the transaction data, and makes an inference based on a combination of merchant or consumer features associated with a payment transaction of the plurality of payment transactions; and automatically predicting one or more cuisine type classifications usi
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: Visa International Service Association
    Inventors: Hossein Hamooni, Himel Dev
  • Publication number: 20210209229
    Abstract: Methods for detecting insider threats are disclosed. A method includes collecting server access data and application access data, based on the server access data and the application access data, determining nearest neighbors of an employee, and based on the nearest neighbors of the employee, determining a peer group of the employee, determining an average rank distance (ARD) of the nearest neighbors based on a ranking of the nearest neighbors in a plurality of time periods, identifying ARD gaps between the nearest neighbors, and generating scores corresponding to the ARD gaps between the nearest neighbors. One or more employees are identified that represent an internal threat to an organization based on the scores corresponding to the ARD gaps.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 8, 2020
    Publication date: July 8, 2021
    Applicant: Visa International Service Association
    Inventors: Yuhang WU, Yanhong WU, Hossein HAMOONI, Yu-San LIN, Hao YANG
  • Patent number: 10990616
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for parsing logs from arbitrary or unknown systems or applications by capturing heterogeneous logs from the arbitrary or unknown systems or applications; generating one pattern for every unique log message; building a pattern hierarchy tree by grouping patterns based on similarity metrics, and for every group it generates one pattern by combing all constituting patterns of that group; and selecting a set of patterns from the pattern hierarchy tree.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Inventors: Biplob Debnath, Jianwu Xu, Hui Zhang, Guofei Jiang, Hossein Hamooni
  • Patent number: 10853372
    Abstract: This disclosure describes technologies for pattern matching in data streams. Given one or more patterns of data, and one or more data streams, e.g., streams of measurements made by one or more sensors, this disclosure provides apparatus and techniques for identifying occurrences of the patterns in the data streams. Techniques according to this disclosure generally make use of distribution strategies, as disclosed herein, to distribute the work of pattern identification among multiple processors. Data streams may be divided into multiple segments, and patterns for identification as well as data stream segments may be distributed among the multiple processors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Inventors: Abdullah Mueen, Hossein Hamooni
  • Publication number: 20200134627
    Abstract: Provided is a method that includes determining cuisine type classifiers based on merchant data, receiving transaction data associated with each payment transaction of a plurality of payment transactions involving a plurality of merchants and a plurality of consumers; determining, with at least one processor, a plurality of cuisine type labels based on a plurality of merchant names associated with the plurality of payment transactions or a portion of the plurality of payment transactions, wherein a cuisine type label identifies a cuisine type provided by a respective merchant of the plurality of merchants; generating a merchant cuisine type model from the transaction data to determine a cuisine type label of a merchant, the merchant cuisine type model based on the transaction data, and makes an inference based on a combination of merchant or consumer features associated with a payment transaction of the plurality of payment transactions; and automatically predicting one or more cuisine type classifications usi
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2019
    Publication date: April 30, 2020
    Inventors: Hossein Hamooni, Himel Dev
  • Publication number: 20170236023
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for parsing logs from arbitrary or unknown systems or applications by capturing heterogeneous logs from the arbitrary or unknown systems or applications; generating one pattern for every unique log message; building a pattern hierarchy tree by grouping patterns based on similarity metrics, and for every group it generates one pattern by combing all constituting patterns of that group; and selecting a set of patterns from the pattern hierarchy tree.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2016
    Publication date: August 17, 2017
    Inventors: Biplob Debnath, Jianwu Xu, Hui Zhang, Guofei Jiang, Hossein Hamooni