Patents by Inventor Philip Nathan Greenberg

Philip Nathan Greenberg 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).

  • Publication number: 20240004732
    Abstract: An application program interface (API) analyzer that determines protocols and formats to interact with a service provider or smart device. The API analyzer identifies an API endpoint or websites for the service provider or smart device, determines a service category or device category, selects a category-specific corpus, forms a service-specific or device-specific corpus by appending information regarding the service provider or smart device to the category-specific corpus, and parses API documentation or the websites.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 5, 2023
    Publication date: January 4, 2024
    Inventors: Alston Ghafourifar, Philip Nathan Greenberg, Neil Achtman
  • Patent number: 11740950
    Abstract: An application program interface (API) analyzer that determines protocols and formats to interact with a service provider or smart device. The API analyzer identifies an API endpoint or web sites for the service provider or smart device, determines a service category or device category, selects a category-specific corpus, forms a service-specific or device-specific corpus by appending information regarding the service provider or smart device to the category-specific corpus, and parses API documentation or the websites.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: Entefy Inc.
    Inventors: Alston Ghafourifar, Philip Nathan Greenberg, Neil Achtman
  • Patent number: 11669554
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to personalized and dynamic server-side searching techniques for encrypted data. Current so-called ‘zero-knowledge’ privacy systems (i.e., systems where the server has ‘zero-knowledge’ about the client data that it is storing) utilize servers that hold encrypted data without the decryption keys necessary to decrypt, index, and/or re-encrypt the data. As such, the servers are not able to perform any kind of meaningful server-side search process, as it would require access to the underlying decrypted data. Therefore, such prior art ‘zero-knowledge’ privacy systems provide a limited ability for a user to search through a large dataset of encrypted documents to find critical information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: Entefy Inc.
    Inventors: Alston Ghafourifar, Philip Nathan Greenberg, Mehdi Ghafourifar
  • Patent number: 11494421
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to personalized and dynamic server-side searching techniques for encrypted data. Current so-called ‘zero-knowledge’ privacy systems (i.e., systems where the server has ‘zero-knowledge’ about the client data that it is storing) utilize servers that hold encrypted data without the decryption keys necessary to decrypt, index, and/or re-encrypt the data. As such, the servers are not able to perform any kind of meaningful server-side search process, as it would require access to the underlying decrypted data. Therefore, such prior art ‘zero-knowledge’ privacy systems provide a limited ability for a user to search through a large dataset of encrypted documents to find critical information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: Entefy Inc.
    Inventors: Alston Ghafourifar, Philip Nathan Greenberg, Mehdi Ghafourifar
  • Patent number: 11366839
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to personalized and dynamic server-side searching techniques for encrypted data. Current so-called ‘zero-knowledge’ privacy systems (i.e., systems where the server has ‘zero-knowledge’ about the client data that it is storing) utilize servers that hold encrypted data without the decryption keys necessary to decrypt, index, and/or re-encrypt the data. As such, the servers are not able to perform any kind of meaningful server-side search process, as it would require access to the underlying decrypted data. Therefore, such prior art ‘zero-knowledge’ privacy systems provide a limited ability for a user to search through a large dataset of encrypted documents to find critical information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: Entefy Inc.
    Inventors: Alston Ghafourifar, Philip Nathan Greenberg, Mehdi Ghafourifar
  • Publication number: 20210089373
    Abstract: An application program interface (API) analyzer that determines protocols and formats to interact with a service provider or smart device. The API analyzer identifies an API endpoint or web sites for the service provider or smart device, determines a service category or device category, selects a category-specific corpus, forms a service-specific or device-specific corpus by appending information regarding the service provider or smart device to the category-specific corpus, and parses API documentation or the websites.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2020
    Publication date: March 25, 2021
    Inventors: Alston Ghafourifar, Philip Nathan Greenberg, Neil Achtman
  • Patent number: 10761910
    Abstract: An application program interface (API) analyzer that determines protocols and formats to interact with a service provider or smart device. The API analyzer identifies an API endpoint or websites for the service provider or smart device, determines a service category or device category, selects a category-specific corpus, forms a service-specific or device-specific corpus by appending information regarding the service provider or smart device to the category-specific corpus, and parses API documentation or the websites.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: Entefy Inc.
    Inventors: Alston Ghafourifar, Philip Nathan Greenberg, Neil Achtman
  • Patent number: 10606870
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to personalized and dynamic server-side searching techniques for encrypted data. Current so-called ‘zero-knowledge’ privacy systems (i.e., systems where the server has ‘zero-knowledge’ about the client data that it is storing) utilize servers that hold encrypted data without the decryption keys necessary to decrypt, index, and/or re-encrypt the data. As such, the servers are not able to perform any kind of meaningful server-side search process, as it would require access to the underlying decrypted data. Therefore, such prior art ‘zero-knowledge’ privacy systems provide a limited ability for a user to search through a large dataset of encrypted documents to find critical information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: Entefy Inc.
    Inventors: Alston Ghafourifar, Philip Nathan Greenberg, Mehdi Ghafourifar
  • Publication number: 20200050502
    Abstract: An application program interface (API) analyzer that determines protocols and formats to interact with a service provider or smart device. The API analyzer identifies an API endpoint or websites for the service provider or smart device, determines a service category or device category, selects a category-specific corpus, forms a service-specific or device-specific corpus by appending information regarding the service provider or smart device to the category-specific corpus, and parses API documentation or the websites.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2019
    Publication date: February 13, 2020
    Inventors: Alston Ghafourifar, Philip Nathan Greenberg, Neil Achtman
  • Patent number: 10395047
    Abstract: Users desire a communications system that allows the users to apply customized privacy settings (and, optionally, encryption keys) differently to particular portions of a document—even if the document is of a ‘lossy’ file type, e.g., a JPEG image. The custom access permission settings may be implemented by obfuscating portions of the original file and then embedding “secret,” e.g., hidden and/or encrypted, versions of the obfuscated portions in parts of the data structure of the original lossy file in the form of “layers” (e.g., the bit-equivalent of PNG layers). The individual encrypted layers may then be decrypted according to each recipient's permissions and layered on top of the original lossy file ‘in memory’ before being displayed to the recipient. The use of multiple encrypted layers allows for the visual revelation of the content of the original lossy file without modifying the actual underlying image content of the original lossy file.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: Entefy Inc.
    Inventors: Alston Ghafourifar, Philip Nathan Greenberg
  • Patent number: 10353754
    Abstract: An application program interface (API) analyzer that determines protocols and formats to interact with a service provider or smart device. The API analyzer identifies an API endpoint or web sites for the service provider or smart device, determines a service category or device category, selects a category-specific corpus, forms a service-specific or device-specific corpus by appending information regarding the service provider or smart device to the category-specific corpus, and parses API documentation or the websites.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Assignee: Entefy Inc.
    Inventors: Alston Ghafourifar, Philip Nathan Greenberg, Neil Achtman
  • Patent number: 10135764
    Abstract: A universal interaction platform that communicates with service providers and smart devices by receiving a message object that includes information indicative of a user intent for one of the service providers or smart devices to perform a function, determines the service provider or smart device that the user intends to perform the function, determines a protocol and format for communicating with the service provider or smart device, formats an instruction for the service provider or smart device, and outputs the instruction to the service provider or smart device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: Entefy Inc.
    Inventors: Alston Ghafourifar, Mehdi Ghafourifar, Philip Nathan Greenberg, Neil Achtman, Brienne Ghafourifar
  • Publication number: 20180189504
    Abstract: Users desire a communications system that allows the users to apply customized privacy settings (and, optionally, encryption keys) differently to particular portions of a document—even if the document is of a ‘lossy’ file type, e.g., a JPEG image. The custom access permission settings may be implemented by obfuscating portions of the original file and then embedding “secret,” e.g., hidden and/or encrypted, versions of the obfuscated portions in parts of the data structure of the original lossy file in the form of “layers” (e.g., the bit-equivalent of PNG layers). The individual encrypted layers may then be decrypted according to each recipient's permissions and layered on top of the original lossy file ‘in memory’ before being displayed to the recipient. The use of multiple encrypted layers allows for the visual revelation of the content of the original lossy file without modifying the actual underlying image content of the original lossy file.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 31, 2016
    Publication date: July 5, 2018
    Inventors: Alston Ghafourifar, Philip Nathan Greenberg
  • Patent number: 9843543
    Abstract: This disclosure relates generally to apparatuses, methods, and computer readable media for composing communications for computing devices across multiple formats and multiple protocols. More particularly, but not by way of limitation, this disclosure relates to apparatuses, methods, and computer readable media to permit computing devices, e.g., smartphones, tablets, laptops, and the like, to send encrypted or unencrypted group communications in a number of pre-determined and/or ‘determined-on-the-fly’ communications formats and/or protocols. Correlation of messages comprising secure group communications across multi-format multi-protocol may be determined by tracking message groups and mapping aliases across protocols. The techniques disclosed herein allow communications systems to become ‘message-centric’ or ‘people-centric’ as opposed to ‘protocol-centric,’ eventually allowing consideration of message protocol and security mechanisms to fall away entirely for the sender of the communication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2017
    Assignee: Entefy Inc.
    Inventors: Alston Ghafourifar, Philip Nathan Greenberg
  • Publication number: 20170300556
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to personalized and dynamic server-side searching techniques for encrypted data. Current so-called ‘zero-knowledge’ privacy systems (i.e., systems where the server has ‘zero-knowledge’ about the client data that it is storing) utilize servers that hold encrypted data without the decryption keys necessary to decrypt, index, and/or re-encrypt the data. As such, the servers are not able to perform any kind of meaningful server-side search process, as it would require access to the underlying decrypted data. Therefore, such prior art ‘zero-knowledge’ privacy systems provide a limited ability for a user to search through a large dataset of encrypted documents to find critical information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2017
    Publication date: October 19, 2017
    Inventors: Alston Ghafourifar, Philip Nathan Greenberg, Mehdi Ghafourifar
  • Publication number: 20170195267
    Abstract: A universal interaction platform that communicates with service providers and smart devices by receiving a message object that includes information indicative of a user intent for one of the service providers or smart devices to perform a function, determines the service provider or smart device that the user intends to perform the function, determines a protocol and format for communicating with the service provider or smart device, formats an instruction for the service provider or smart device, and outputs the instruction to the service provider or smart device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 31, 2015
    Publication date: July 6, 2017
    Inventors: Alston Ghafourifar, Mehdi Ghafourifar, Philip Nathan Greenberg, Neil Achtman, Brienne Ghafourifar
  • Publication number: 20170192827
    Abstract: An application program interface (API) analyzer that determines protocols and formats to interact with a service provider or smart device. The API analyzer identifies an API endpoint or web sites for the service provider or smart device, determines a service category or device category, selects a category-specific corpus, forms a service-specific or device-specific corpus by appending information regarding the service provider or smart device to the category-specific corpus, and parses API documentation or the websites.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 31, 2015
    Publication date: July 6, 2017
    Inventors: Alston Ghafourifar, Philip Nathan Greenberg, Neil Achtman
  • Patent number: 9594827
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to personalized and dynamic server-side searching techniques for encrypted data. Current so-called ‘zero-knowledge’ privacy systems (i.e., systems where the server has ‘zero-knowledge’ about the client data that it is storing) utilize servers that hold encrypted data without the decryption keys necessary to decrypt, index, and/or re-encrypt the data. As such, the servers are not able to perform any kind of meaningful server-side search process, as it would require access to the underlying decrypted data. Therefore, such prior art ‘zero-knowledge’ privacy systems provide a limited ability for a user to search through a large dataset of encrypted documents to find critical information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2017
    Assignee: Entefy Inc.
    Inventors: Alston Ghafourifar, Philip Nathan Greenberg, Mehdi Ghafourifar
  • Publication number: 20160179938
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to personalized and dynamic server-side searching techniques for encrypted data. Current so-called ‘zero-knowledge’ privacy systems (i.e., systems where the server has ‘zero-knowledge’ about the client data that it is storing) utilize servers that hold encrypted data without the decryption keys necessary to decrypt, index, and/or re-encrypt the data. As such, the servers are not able to perform any kind of meaningful server-side search process, as it would require access to the underlying decrypted data. Therefore, such prior art ‘zero-knowledge’ privacy systems provide a limited ability for a user to search through a large dataset of encrypted documents to find critical information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 31, 2015
    Publication date: June 23, 2016
    Inventors: Alston Ghafourifar, Philip Nathan Greenberg, Mehdi Ghafourifar
  • Publication number: 20160119261
    Abstract: This disclosure relates generally to apparatuses, methods, and computer readable media for composing communications for computing devices across multiple formats and multiple protocols. More particularly, but not by way of limitation, this disclosure relates to apparatuses, methods, and computer readable media to permit computing devices, e.g., smartphones, tablets, laptops, and the like, to send encrypted or unencrypted group communications in a number of pre-determined and/or ‘determined-on-the-fly’ communications formats and/or protocols. Correlation of messages comprising secure group communications across multi-format multi-protocol may be determined by tracking message groups and mapping aliases across protocols. The techniques disclosed herein allow communications systems to become ‘message-centric’ or ‘people-centric’ as opposed to ‘protocol-centric,’ eventually allowing consideration of message protocol and security mechanisms to fall away entirely for the sender of the communication.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 31, 2015
    Publication date: April 28, 2016
    Inventors: Alston Ghafourifar, Philip Nathan Greenberg