Patents by Inventor Kerry E. Loftus

Kerry E. Loftus 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).

  • System and method for network-based fraud and authentication services
    Patent number: 7861286
    Abstract: A system and method for providing identity protection services. According to an embodiment, a validation server receives over a network a response from a credential associated with a user, the credential response provided by the user in order to authenticate the user to one of a plurality of sites on the network that accepts the credential as a factor for authentication, the validation server verifies the credential response on behalf of the one network site, a fraud detection server receives over the network information in connection with a transaction associated with the user at the one network site, and the fraud detection server evaluates the transaction information for suspicious activity based at least in part on information provided to the fraud detection server in connection with one or more transactions at one or more sites on the network other than the one network site.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2010
    Assignee: Symantec Software Corporation
    Inventors: David M'Raihi, Joseph Adler, Siddharth Bajaj, Nicolas Popp, Kerry E. Loftus, Bruce Ong, Alin M. Mutu, Jeffrey Burstein, Yueqin Lin