Patents by Inventor Jefferson Provost

Jefferson 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).

  • Patent number: 11140171
    Abstract: A user device can verify a user's identity to a server while protecting user privacy by not sharing personal data with any other device. To ensure user privacy, the user device performs an enrollment process in which the user performs an action sequence. The user device collects action data from the action sequence and uses the action data locally to generate a set of public/private key pairs (or other representation) from which information about the action sequence cannot be extracted. The public keys, but not the underlying action data, are sent to a server to store. To verify user identity, a user device can repeat the collection of action data and the generation of the key pairs. If the device can prove to the server its possession of the private keys to a sufficient degree, the user's identity can be verified.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Eric D. Friedman, Nathaniel C. Bush, Jefferson Provost, Vignesh Kumar, Gregory J. Kuhlmann, Tal Tversky, Ritwik K. Kumar, Eric M. Gottschalk, Lucas O. Winstrom