Patents by Inventor Lachlan Maxwell

Lachlan Maxwell 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: 11962680
    Abstract: Systems and methods for blockchain ledger growth management using separation of a blockchain ledger into multiple blockchain ledgers (each ledger having a state that can be tracked and used). The systems and methods also include linking the separated ledgers by utilizing a linking application and smart contracts added to the separated ledgers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Ashish Sardesai, Dante J. Pacella, Lachlan Maxwell, Venkata Josyula, Mani Tadayon
  • Patent number: 11960583
    Abstract: The present teaching relates to method, system, medium, and implementations for authenticating a user. A first request is received to set up authentication information with respect to a user, wherein the first request specifies a type of information to be used for future authentication of the user. It is determined whether the type of information related to the user poses risks based on a reverse information search result. The type of information for being used for future authentication of the user is rejected when the type of information is determined to pose risks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Lachlan Maxwell, Dante J. Pacella, Mani Tadayon, Saravanan Mallesan, Lee Edward Sattler, Jean M. McManus, Ashish A. Sardesai
  • Patent number: 11962619
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for cryptographic signing of content requests. One method includes receiving, at a content network, a content request from a publisher website, the publisher website purporting to be associated with a publisher domain. At the content network, a public key may be received associated with the publisher domain. At the content network, at least one policy may be received associated with the publisher domain. It may be determined whether the content request comprises a cryptographic signature. If it is determined that the content request does not comprise a cryptographic signature, content may or may not be provided to the publisher website according to the policy from the publisher domain. If it is determined that the content request comprises a cryptographic signature, the cryptographic signature of the request may be validated using the public key.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Yahoo Assets LLC
    Inventors: Lachlan A. Maxwell, Andrew Braksator, George Fletcher
  • Patent number: 11916946
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for identifying malicious traffic associated with a website.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Yahoo Ad Tech LLC
    Inventors: Lachlan A. Maxwell, Donald J. McQueen
  • Patent number: 11909745
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for utilizing sender-recipient pair data to establish sender-level trust in future communication. One method comprises receiving raw communication data over a network and testing the received raw communication data against trained machine learning data to predict whether the raw communication data is associated with expected communication data. The raw communication data is sorted for expected communication data, which is further analyzed for sender-recipient pair data and assigned an expected communication pair data score. Senders associated with an expected communication pair data score that meets or exceeds a threshold are labeled and stored in a database as trusted. As a result of the sender-recipient pair analysis, recipients at-risk for being scammed can be identified, senders misidentified as spammers can be properly classified, and machine learning techniques utilized for analyzing raw communication data can be fine-tuned.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Yahoo Assets LLC
    Inventors: Lachlan A. Maxwell, Donald J. Mcqueen, Paul S. Rock
  • Publication number: 20230306289
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for determining if an account identifier is computer-generated. One method includes receiving the account identifier, dividing the account identifier into a plurality of fragments, and determining one or more features of at least one of the fragments. The method further includes determining the commonness of at least one of the fragments, and determining if the account identifier is computer-generated based on the features of at least one of the fragments, and the commonness of at least one of the fragments.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2023
    Publication date: September 28, 2023
    Inventors: Donald J. MCQUEEN, Lachlan A. MAXWELL
  • Patent number: 11704583
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for determining if an account identifier is computer-generated. One method includes receiving the account identifier, dividing the account identifier into a plurality of fragments, and determining one or more features of at least one of the fragments. The method further includes determining the commonness of at least one of the fragments, and determining if the account identifier is computer-generated based on the features of at least one of the fragments, and the commonness of at least one of the fragments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: Yahoo Assets LLC
    Inventors: Donald J. McQueen, Lachlan A. Maxwell
  • Publication number: 20230198743
    Abstract: Systems and methods for blockchain ledger growth management using separation of a blockchain ledger into multiple blockchain ledgers (each ledger having a state that can be tracked and used). The systems and methods also include linking the separated ledgers by utilizing a linking application and smart contracts added to the separated ledgers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2023
    Publication date: June 22, 2023
    Inventors: Ashish SARDESAI, Dante J. PACELLA, Lachlan MAXWELL, Venkata JOSYULA, Mani TADAYON
  • Publication number: 20230117344
    Abstract: A method for compliance with Know Your Customer (KYC) and other regulations includes a pseudonymous globally unique identifier stored on a blockchain that associates a pseudonymous first party address with a globally unique identifier representing the vetted identity of the owner of the address. The method also includes a trusted third party issuing a verifiable credential for a first pseudonymous party to a proposed transaction to a second pseudonymous party to the transaction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2022
    Publication date: April 20, 2023
    Inventors: Paul Burchard, Fabiano Romeiro, Marco Argenti, Raj Mahajan, Anthony Daoud, Dominic Dotterrer, Lachlan Maxwell, Rahul Sharma
  • Patent number: 11616638
    Abstract: Systems and methods for blockchain ledger growth management using separation of a blockchain ledger into multiple blockchain ledgers (each ledger having a state that can be tracked and used). The systems and methods also include linking the separated ledgers by utilizing a linking application and smart contracts added to the separated ledgers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Ashish Sardesai, Dante J. Pacella, Lachlan Maxwell, Venkata Josyula, Mani Tadayon
  • Patent number: 11569982
    Abstract: Technologies for compressing a blockchain. In some examples, the technologies include removing selected blocks within a blockchain, and replacing the selected blocks with a summary block and a padding block. Each block of the selected blocks includes data in a certain state (such as data in an obsolete state). The technologies can include generating the summary block and padding blocks according to the data in the selected blocks and an original root hash included in the selected blocks and other blocks of the blockchain. The generating of the summary and padding blocks can include generating a new root hash in the summary and padding blocks that only replaces the original root hash in the summary and padding blocks. The generation of the new root hash can be based on a part of a header of a non-selected block of the blockchain directly linked to an end block of selected blocks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Ashish Sardesai, Dante J. Pacella, Lachlan Maxwell, Venkata Josyula, Mani Tadayon
  • Publication number: 20230029211
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for utilizing sender-recipient pair data to establish sender-level trust in future communication. One method comprises receiving raw communication data over a network and testing the received raw communication data against trained machine learning data to predict whether the raw communication data is associated with expected communication data. The raw communication data is sorted for expected communication data, which is further analyzed for sender-recipient pair data and assigned an expected communication pair data score. Senders associated with an expected communication pair data score that meets or exceeds a threshold are labeled and stored in a database as trusted. As a result of the sender-recipient pair analysis, recipients at-risk for being scammed can be identified, senders misidentified as spammers can be properly classified, and machine learning techniques utilized for analyzing raw communication data can be fine-tuned.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2022
    Publication date: January 26, 2023
    Inventors: Lachlan A. MAXWELL, Donald J. MCQUEEN, Paul S. Rock
  • Patent number: 11514177
    Abstract: The present teaching relates to method, system, medium, and implementation for secure data management by a service provider. A request is first received for carrying out a transaction with a user and one or more data items associated with the user are then determined that need to be validated prior to the transaction. A request is then sent to the user seeking to validate the one or more data items. When a cloaked identifier is received from the user with information related to a trusted party, the cloaked identifier is then sent to the trusted party with a request for a validation response. When the validation response is received with an indication that the one or more data items are validated, the transaction with the user is carried out.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Mani Tadayon, Dante J. Pacella, Lachlan Maxwell, Venkata Josyula, Lee Edward Sattler, Ashish A. Sardesai, Jean M. McManus
  • Publication number: 20220377104
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for identifying human users on a network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2022
    Publication date: November 24, 2022
    Inventors: Donald J. MCQUEEN, Lachlan A. MAXWELL, William C. Wakefield, III
  • Patent number: 11503041
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for utilizing sender-recipient pair data to establish sender-level trust in future communication. One method comprises receiving raw communication data over a network and testing the received raw communication data against trained machine learning data to predict whether the raw communication data is associated with expected communication data. The raw communication data is sorted for expected communication data, which is further analyzed for sender-recipient pair data and assigned an expected communication pair data score. Senders associated with an expected communication pair data score that meets or exceeds a threshold are labeled and stored in a database as trusted. As a result of the sender-recipient pair analysis, recipients at-risk for being scammed can be identified, senders misidentified as spammers can be properly classified, and machine learning techniques utilized for analyzing raw communication data can be fine-tuned.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: Yahoo Assets LLC
    Inventors: Lachlan A. Maxwell, Donald J. McQueen, Paul S. Rock
  • Publication number: 20220335099
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are provided for pairing users for electronic communications over a network. In accordance with one implementation, a method is provided for pairing users that request a chat encounter or other form of electronic communication. The operations of the method include receiving a request from a first user and calculating a plurality of pairing scores, each pairing score based on a collaborative filtering score. The method further includes selecting a second user based on the plurality of pairing scores and pairing the first user with the second user to enable electronic communications.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2022
    Publication date: October 20, 2022
    Inventors: Lachlan A. MAXWELL, Donald J. MCQUEEN
  • Publication number: 20220294794
    Abstract: The disclosed systems and methods provide a novel framework that leverages collected logged-in daily active users (LIDAU) data to drive network traffic to network resources, as well as engage these users to continue or remain engaged with the resources through personalization and customization according to their behaviors and patterns. LIDAU data, which is based on a raw data feed of information from network resources and an identified dataset determined from the raw data feed, is used as a basis to increase LIDAU for a specific user or a set of other users. The determined understanding of LIDAU, and its impact on users as well as the network resources the users are interacting with, enables the framework to personalize the resources that are anticipated as being visited by the users in advance of the users visiting them.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2021
    Publication date: September 15, 2022
    Inventors: Meizhu LIU, Yifan HU, Francis HSU, Lachlan MAXWELL, Saurabh TEWARI, Durga Sankari Sundara MANICKAM
  • Patent number: 11444972
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for identifying human users on a network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: Yahoo Assets LLC
    Inventors: Donald J. McQueen, Lachlan A. Maxwell, William C. Wakefield, III
  • Publication number: 20220210175
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for identifying malicious traffic associated with a website.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2022
    Publication date: June 30, 2022
    Inventors: Lachlan A. MAXWELL, Donald J. MCQUEEN
  • Patent number: 11363056
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for analyzing a plurality of failed login records that correspond to failed login attempts detected by a computing system, to identify suspicious patterns of activity that can facilitate the supplementation of password blacklists for improving account security. To accomplish the foregoing, failed login records that include information associated with failed login attempts are obtained for analysis. The failed login records are analyzed to identify a set of failed login records that show initial characteristics of a suspicious pattern of activity. The information included in the set of failed login records are further analyzed to determine whether a suspicious pattern of activity is actually present. When a suspicious pattern of activity is identified in the set of failed login records, the passwords used in the failed login attempts are stored in password blacklists associated with the account identifier(s) with which the passwords were used.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Lachlan A. Maxwell, Donald J. McQueen, William C. Wakefield, III