Patents by Inventor Jeremy M. Stober

Jeremy M. Stober 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).

  • Method for rate-limiting interactions based on dynamically calculated values by supplying problems of varying difficulty to be solved
    Patent number: 10599873
    Abstract: Systems and methods are described for rate-limiting a message-sending client interacting with a message service based on dynamically calculated risk assessments of the probability that the client is, or is not, a sender of a spam messages. The message service sends a proof of work problem to a sending client device with a difficulty level that is related to a risk assessment that the client is a sender of spam messages. The message system limits the rate at which a known or suspected spammer can send messages by giving the known or suspected spammer client harder proof of work problems to solve, while minimizing the burden on normal users of the message system by given them easier proof of work problems to solve that can typically be solved by the client within the time that it takes to type a message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2020
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Lucas O. Winstrom, Eric D. Friedman, Ritwik K. Kumar, Jeremy M. Stober, Amol V. Pattekar, Benoit Chevallier-Mames, Julien Lerouge, Gianpaolo Fasoli, Augustin J. Farrugia, Mathieu Ciet
  • METHOD FOR RATE-LIMITING INTERACTIONS BASED ON DYNAMICALLY CALCULATED VALUES BY SUPPLYING PROBLEMS OF VARYING DIFFICULTY TO BE SOLVED
    Publication number: 20180089465
    Abstract: Systems and methods are described for rate-limiting a message-sending client interacting with a message service based on dynamically calculated risk assessments of the probability that the client is, or is not, a sender of a spam messages. The message service sends a proof of work problem to a sending client device with a difficulty level that is related to a risk assessment that the client is a sender of spam messages. The message system limits the rate at which a known or suspected spammer can send messages by giving the known or suspected spammer client harder proof of work problems to solve, while minimizing the burden on normal users of the message system by given them easier proof of work problems to solve that can typically be solved by the client within the time that it takes to type a message.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2017
    Publication date: March 29, 2018
    Inventors: Lucas O. Winstrom, Eric D. Friedman, Ritwik K. Kumar, Jeremy M. Stober, Amol V. Pattekar, Benoit Chevallier-Mames, Julien Lerouge, Gianpaolo Fasoli, Augustin J. Farrugia, Mathieu Ciet