Patents by Inventor Robert Seth Black

Robert Seth Black 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).

  • Defeating real-time trojan login attack with delayed interaction with fraudster
    Patent number: 8452980
    Abstract: A method of detecting a fraudulent login attempt across a network is provided. The method includes (a) receiving, at some time, a login request from a client, the login request including (1) a username associated with a user account, (2) a static password associated with the user account, and (3) a one-time password provided by a token, (b) calculating whether the time is more than a predetermined amount of time after a most-recent login to the account, (c) when the time is more than the predetermined time since the most-recent login, accepting the login request according to a first mode, and (d) when the first time is not more than the predetermined time since the most-recent login, accepting the login request according to a second mode, the second mode rejecting a greater proportion of login attempts than the first mode rejects. An apparatus and computer program product are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2013
    Assignee: EMC Corporation
    Inventors: Robert Seth Black, Karl Ackerman