Patents by Inventor Joseph Edmonds

Joseph Edmonds 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: 12361497
    Abstract: Unmanned vehicles may be used to survey a property in response to or in anticipation of damage to the property. For example, an unmanned vehicle may us one or more sensors to determine damage to the property. Unmanned vehicles can be terrestrial, aerial, nautical, or multi-mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2025
    Assignee: United Services Automobile Association (USAA)
    Inventors: Anthony Scott Farnsworth, Justin Dax Haslam, Kathleen L Swain, Teddy Joseph Edmond Voutour, Jess W. Gingrich, Michael J. Allen, Anthony G. Castiglione, Jordan A. Newmark
  • Patent number: 12295872
    Abstract: A tract expander includes a base having a threaded central hole and a plurality of wings. The base and the wings are connected by a plurality of hinges. Each of the plurality of hinges is connected to the base and to a wing of the plurality of wings so that each wing moves relative to the base. A threaded shaft includes a tip. The tip diameter is larger than the threaded shaft diameter and the threaded shaft is configured to screw into the threaded central hole. The threaded shaft is configured to rotate and move the tip toward the hinged base, causing the tops of the plurality of wings to move away from the threaded shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2025
    Assignee: ABSORBENT, LLC
    Inventors: Abel Smerica, Joseph Edmonds
  • Patent number: 12301622
    Abstract: A system and method for detecting cyberattacks involves monitoring and analyzing incoming email received over the internet using enterprise telemetry; extracting observations from an enterprise telemetry data feeds and transmitting to a summarization module for summarizing a potential indicator of compromise pertaining to the email monitored and analyzed by the network telemetry; storing the observation summarization data in a graph database; querying over the internet an external cybersecurity threat intelligence provider, upon identification of a true-positive network threat, for enriching information and artifacts contained within the true-positive network threat, receiving over the internet enriching information and artifacts from the external cybersecurity threat intelligence provider, and storing the received enriching information and artifacts in the graph database; and identifying a new indicator of compromise using data stored in the graph database.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2024
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2025
    Assignee: Morgan Stanley Services Group Inc.
    Inventors: Joseph Edmonds, Russell Moriarty
  • Patent number: 12271757
    Abstract: A system for improving efficiency of processing alerts by a Security Incident & Event Management (SIEM) platform involves a pipeline, and an error log associated with the pipeline, wherein the pipeline is coupled to a source of alerts and to an SIEM platform, the pipeline including a source task, at least one process task and at least one sink task, wherein the at least one sink task is configured to publish cases to the SIEM platform and wherein the error log is configured such that, when an exception occurs in a particular task in the pipeline, an object relating to the particular task and the exception will be stored in the error log.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2024
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: MORGAN STANLEY SERVICES GROUP INC.
    Inventors: Alec R. Kerr, Joseph Edmonds
  • Patent number: 12190161
    Abstract: A method of improving efficiency of processing alerts by a Security Incident & Event Management (SIEM) platform involves a SIEM case creation platform made up of at least one pipeline, made up of multiple tasks, and is interposed between an alerts database and the SIEM platform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2024
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: MORGAN STANLEY SERVICES GROUP INC.
    Inventors: Alec R. Kerr, Joseph Edmonds
  • Patent number: 12160502
    Abstract: A method for generating hashes associated with web domains and reacting to transmissions from those web domains is disclosed. When artifacts from a first web domain and artifacts from a second web domain have been transmitted over a network, a system generates, via a hashing or fingerprinting function that uses registry information, a first hash for the first web domain and a second hash for the second web domain and identifies a correlation between the first web domain and the second web domain based on shared subsets of the first hash and second hash. Upon receiving a notification that artifacts from the first web domain had been determined to negatively impact the functioning of a secondary computing system, based on the identified correlation between the first web domain and the second web domain, the system automatically quarantines artifacts from the second web domain from interacting with the secondary computing system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: MORGAN STANLEY SERVICES GROUP INC.
    Inventors: Eric Mudge, Joseph Edmonds, Russell Moriarty
  • Publication number: 20240348425
    Abstract: A method for generating hashes associated with web domains and reacting to transmissions from those web domains is disclosed. When artifacts from a first web domain and artifacts from a second web domain have been transmitted over a network, a system generates, via a hashing or fingerprinting function that uses registry information, a first hash for the first web domain and a second hash for the second web domain and identifies a correlation between the first web domain and the second web domain based on shared subsets of the first hash and second hash. Upon receiving a notification that artifacts from the first web domain had been determined to negatively impact the functioning of a secondary computing system, based on the identified correlation between the first web domain and the second web domain, the system automatically quarantines artifacts from the second web domain from interacting with the secondary computing system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2023
    Publication date: October 17, 2024
    Applicant: MORGAN STANLEY SERVICES GROUP INC.
    Inventors: Eric Mudge, Joseph Edmonds, Russell Moriarty
  • Patent number: 12073471
    Abstract: A property is identified about which to gather information and a vehicle is deployed to a location associated with the property. A path is determined for the vehicle and the vehicle gathers real-time data associated with the property while traveling the path. The real-time data is compared to previously-gathered data to determine a portion of the property that is damaged.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: United Services Automobile Association (USAA)
    Inventors: Anthony Scott Farnsworth, Justin Dax Haslam, Kathleen L. Swain, Teddy Joseph Edmond Voutour, Jess W. Gingrich, Michael J. Allen, Anthony G. Castiglione, Jordan A. Newmark
  • Patent number: 12013945
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method of analyzing the contents of a file in a visual document format to identify a potentially-fraudulent overlay is disclosed. The method includes receiving the file, iterating over a set of visually rendered elements within the file, and calculating, for each element in the set, a bounding box. Based on identifying a pair of elements having at least partially overlapping bounding boxes, such that a visible item in an overlaid element at least partially obscures an item in an underlying element that would otherwise be visible, an attack vector ontology is updated to include information on the overlaid and underlying element. This attack vector ontology may be used in training an automatic system to identify fraudulent documents and prevent their being printed, signed, and/or further used.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: MORGAN STANLEY SERVICES GROUP INC.
    Inventors: Eric Mudge, Joseph Edmonds, Russell Moriarty
  • Patent number: 11979429
    Abstract: An applet may be downloaded or provided to a web browser when a user visits a site in order to protect data input by the user from being captured by malicious software, such as key loggers. The applet may present a user input field in the web browser and may generate a random sequence of low-level key stroke or mouse click events within the input field when the user enters information, such as a username and/or password. A listening key logger will receive a large amount of random data, whereas the applet will receive and buffer the actual user data that may be communicated to a remote site access by the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: United Services Automobile Association (USAA)
    Inventors: Teddy Joseph Edmond Voutour, Michael Frank Morris
  • Publication number: 20240045837
    Abstract: A system for receiving and deduplicating data strings transmitted over a network is disclosed. The system comprises one or more network sensors detecting data strings while in transit on the network; and non-transitory memory comprising instructions. When the instructions are executed by one or more processors, the one or more processors establish a plurality of Bloom filters, receive a first data string, perform a first insertion operation into each Bloom filter; determine, for each of one or more Bloom filters, a set of bits, whether presently set or cleared, to be unset; and unset each determined set of bits in the one or more Bloom filters. At a later moment in time, the first data string is received again, and each Bloom filter is queried to determine whether the first data string has been inserted, based on a current state of that Bloom filter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2023
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Applicant: MORGAN STANLEY SERVICES GROUP INC.
    Inventors: Jonathan Oakley, Joseph Edmonds
  • Publication number: 20240045836
    Abstract: A system for receiving and deduplicating data strings transmitted over a network is disclosed. The system comprises one or more network sensors detecting data strings while in transit on the network; and non-transitory memory comprising instructions. When the instructions are executed by one or more processors, the one or more processors establish a plurality of Bloom filters, receive a first data string, perform a first insertion operation into each Bloom filter; determine, for each of one or more Bloom filters, a set of bits, whether presently set or cleared, to be unset; and unset each determined set of bits in the one or more Bloom filters. At a later moment in time, the first data string is received again, and each Bloom filter is queried to determine whether the first data string has been inserted, based on a current state of that Bloom filter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2023
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Applicant: MORGAN STANLEY SERVICES gROUP INC.
    Inventors: Jonathan Oakley, Joseph Edmonds
  • Patent number: 11809378
    Abstract: A system for receiving and deduplicating data strings transmitted over a network is disclosed. The system comprises one or more network sensors detecting data strings while in transit on the network; and non-transitory memory comprising instructions. When the instructions are executed by one or more processors, the one or more processors establish a plurality of Bloom filters, receive a first data string, perform a first insertion operation into each Bloom filter; determine, for each of one or more Bloom filters, a set of bits, whether presently set or cleared, to be unset; and unset each determined set of bits in the one or more Bloom filters. At a later moment in time, the first data string is received again, and each Bloom filter is queried to determine whether the first data string has been inserted, based on a current state of that Bloom filter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: MORGAN STANLEY SERVICES GROUP INC.
    Inventors: Jonathan Oakley, Joseph Edmonds
  • Patent number: 11750587
    Abstract: A user may access an institution system via more than one communications channel, either by the same device (e.g., a mobile device accessing the institution system via a voice channel and a data channel) or by different devices (e.g., a personal computer via a web channel and a phone via a voice channel). If a user is not currently authenticated to a communications channel and attempts to access the institution system via a communications channel, the user may be authenticated using strong authentication. If the user is currently authenticated to the institution system via a communications channel and would like to engage a second communications channel to access the institution system, the user may authenticate to the second communications channel using both communications channels and weak authentication, such as single factor authentication or a challenge question.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: United Services Automobile Association (USAA)
    Inventor: Teddy Joseph Edmond Voutour
  • Patent number: 11750371
    Abstract: A method for generating fingerprints of web domains and reacting to artifacts electronically received from those web domains is disclosed. When artifacts from a first web domain and artifacts from a second web domain have been transmitted over a network, a system generates, via a hashing function that consults registry information, a first hash for the first web domain and a second hash for the second web domain and identifies a correlation between the first web domain and the second web domain based on shared subsets of the first hash and second hash. Upon receiving a notification that artifacts from the first web domain had been determined to negatively impact the functioning of a secondary computing system; and based on the identified correlation between the first web domain and the second web domain, the system automatically quarantines artifacts from the second web domain from interacting with the secondary computing system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: MORGAN STANLEY SERVICES GROUP INC.
    Inventors: Eric Mudge, Joseph Edmonds, Russell Moriarty
  • Patent number: 11688014
    Abstract: A property is identified about which to gather information. A vehicle is deployed to a location associated with the property. The vehicle gathers data at the location. A portion of the gathered data indicating a condition or event at the property is determined and encrypted. The portion of the gathered data is stored or sent to an authorized party.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: United Services Automobile Association (USAA)
    Inventors: Anthony Scott Farnsworth, Justin Dax Haslam, Kathleen L. Swain, Teddy Joseph Edmond Voutour, Jess W. Gingrich, Michael J. Allen, Anthony G. Castiglione, Jordan A. Newmark
  • Patent number: 11681805
    Abstract: A system for collecting data artifacts from a production environment, storing them, and replaying them in a testing environment is disclosed. One or more processors receive a data artifact from a sensor in a production environment, and store the data artifact in a first storage with a unique identifier, while also storing in a second storage record(s) associating the unique identifier with a tag. A clone of at least a portion of the production environment is created within the testing environment, and an analytic targeting the data artifact is incorporated into the clone. Upon receiving a request to replay the data artifact, referencing the tag associated with the data artifact's unique identifier, the data artifact is replayed by causing the clone to receive the data artifact as if it were presently encountered. Logs of output from the clone's response are stored in a third storage for future analysis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: Morgan Stanley Services Group Inc.
    Inventors: Jonathan Oakley, Joseph Edmonds
  • Patent number: 11647044
    Abstract: An applet may be downloaded or provided to a web browser when a user visits a site in order to protect data input by the user from being captured by malicious software, such as key loggers. The applet may present a user input field in the web browser and may generate a random sequence of low-level key stroke or mouse click events within the input field when the user enters information, such as a username and/or password. A listening key logger will receive a large amount of random data, whereas the applet will receive and buffer the actual user data that may be communicated to a remote site access by the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: United Services Automobile Association (USAA)
    Inventors: Teddy Joseph Edmond Voutour, Michael Frank Morris
  • Publication number: 20230117262
    Abstract: A system for receiving and deduplicating data strings transmitted over a network is disclosed. The system comprises one or more network sensors detecting data strings while in transit on the network; and non-transitory memory comprising instructions. When the instructions are executed by one or more processors, the one or more processors establish a plurality of Bloom filters, receive a first data string, perform a first insertion operation into each Bloom filter; determine, for each of one or more Bloom filters, a set of bits, whether presently set or cleared, to be unset; and unset each determined set of bits in the one or more Bloom filters. At a later moment in time, the first data string is received again, and each Bloom filter is queried to determine whether the first data string has been inserted, based on a current state of that Bloom filter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2021
    Publication date: April 20, 2023
    Applicant: MORGAN STANLEY SERVICES GROUP INC.
    Inventors: Jonathan Oakley, Joseph Edmonds
  • Patent number: 11532050
    Abstract: Unmanned vehicles may be used to survey a property in response to or in anticipation of damage to the property. For example, an unmanned vehicle may use one or more sensors to determine damage to the property. Unmanned vehicles can be terrestrial, aerial, nautical, or multi-mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: United Services Automobile Association (USAA)
    Inventors: Anthony Scott Farnsworth, Justin Dax Haslam, Kathleen L. Swain, Teddy Joseph Edmond Voutour, Jess W. Gingrich, Michael J. Allen, Anthony G. Castiglione, Jordan A. Newmark