Patents by Inventor Sharon Hüffner

Sharon Hüffner 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: 11914963
    Abstract: Systems and methods for detecting and using semantic relatedness to classify segments of digital text are disclosed. More particularly, embodiments determine the semantic relatedness of segments of text to abstract categories where the abstract categories are not defined by a single word or semantic concept. Detecting semantic relatedness includes analyzing text, embedding the text, and determining semantic relatedness to a set of concepts for a category where each concept may include a set of words/phrases embedded in a similar fashion. The text embedding can be projected onto each concept embedding and reduced to a score representing semantic relatedness. The text is classified based on the semantic relatedness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: THETA LAKE, INC.
    Inventors: Rohit Jain, Devin H. Redmond, Richard B. Sutton, Alon Albalak, Sharon Hüffner
  • Publication number: 20230325946
    Abstract: Technology is disclosed for detecting imposters of a brand account. The technology can store a brand profile of the brand account, detect that a message has been publicly communicated to the brand account from a social media account, monitor messages sent publicly to the social media account from other social media accounts by repeatedly comparing the brand profile to metadata of each of the monitored messages, and identify at least one of the other social media accounts as an imposter account based on the comparing. The technology can cease the comparing at predetermined expiration time occurring after the detection of the message that was sent publicly to the brand account.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2023
    Publication date: October 12, 2023
    Inventors: Sharon Hüffner, Harold Nguyen, Richard Banks Sutton, David Oshiro Nadir
  • Patent number: 11710195
    Abstract: Technology is disclosed for detecting imposters of a brand account. The technology can store a brand profile of the brand account, detect that a message has been publicly communicated to the brand account from a social media account, monitor messages sent publicly to the social media account from other social media accounts by repeatedly comparing the brand profile to metadata of each of the monitored messages, and identify at least one of the other social media accounts as an imposter account based on the comparing. The technology can cease the comparing at predetermined expiration time occurring after the detection of the message that was sent publicly to the brand account.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: PROOFPOINT, INC.
    Inventors: Sharon Hüffner, Harold Nguyen, Richard Banks Sutton, Daniel Oshiro Nadir
  • Publication number: 20230069524
    Abstract: A security and compliance platform ingests content from heterogeneous collaboration platforms and processes the content to detect potential regulatory, privacy, and security risks in the conversations. One of the detections that can be applied is the identification of application windows appearing during a collaboration screen share. Because these applications may contain sensitive personally identifiable information (PII), technical trade secrets, or highly confidential corporate information, there is meaningful utility in identifying instances when these applications are shared. If applications shared on screen is detected, a corresponding workflow action may be implemented, for example flagging a session for further analysis in a review screen of the security and compliance platform.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2022
    Publication date: March 2, 2023
    Inventors: Sharon Hüffner, Richard B. Sutton, Devin H. Redmond
  • Publication number: 20220191430
    Abstract: The disclosed invention provides methods supporting systems that processes video communication(s) provided by an organization subject to internal or external regulations such as a specific financial services firm or a specific consumer product goods company. In various embodiments, video content is analyzed through a pipeline process of multiple extraction scripts, programs, and/or services and processes the content for participant likeness through facial recognition, voice recognition, and voice-to-text and stores the output in a normalized, searchable data store. A policy analysis is performed based on the stored data and external regulatory compliance, internal rules such as acceptable use policies, community-based regulations, or any combination thereof, to determine a risk score.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2021
    Publication date: June 16, 2022
    Inventors: James E. Anderson, Devin H. Redmond, Richard B. Sutton, Sharon Hüffner, Derek Brenner
  • Patent number: 11190733
    Abstract: The disclosed invention provides methods supporting systems that processes video communication(s) provided by an organization subject to internal or external regulations such as a specific financial services firm or a specific consumer product goods company. In various embodiments, video content is analyzed through a pipeline process of multiple extraction scripts, programs, and/or services and processes the content for participant likeness through facial recognition, voice recognition, and voice-to-text and stores the output in a normalized, searchable data store. A policy analysis is performed based on the stored data and external regulatory compliance, internal rules such as acceptable use policies, community-based regulations, or any combination thereof, to determine a risk score.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: Theta Lake, Inc.
    Inventors: James E. Anderson, Devin H. Redmond, Richard B. Sutton, Sharon Hüffner, Derek Brenner
  • Publication number: 20210279420
    Abstract: Systems and methods for detecting and using semantic relatedness to classify segments of digital text are disclosed. More particularly, embodiments determine the semantic relatedness of segments of text to abstract categories where the abstract categories are not defined by a single word or semantic concept. Detecting semantic relatedness includes analyzing text, embedding the text, and determining semantic relatedness to a set of concepts for a category where each concept may include a set of words/phrases embedded in a similar fashion. The text embedding can be projected onto each concept embedding and reduced to a score representing semantic relatedness. The text is classified based on the semantic relatedness.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2021
    Publication date: September 9, 2021
    Inventors: Rohit Jain, Devin H. Redmond, Richard B. Sutton, Alon Albalak, Sharon Hüffner
  • Publication number: 20210209701
    Abstract: Technology is disclosed for detecting imposters of a brand account. The technology can store a brand profile of the brand account, detect that a message has been publicly communicated to the brand account from a social media account, monitor messages sent publicly to the social media account from other social media accounts by repeatedly comparing the brand profile to metadata of each of the monitored messages, and identify at least one of the other social media accounts as an imposter account based on the comparing. The technology can cease the comparing at predetermined expiration time occurring after the detection of the message that was sent publicly to the brand account.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2021
    Publication date: July 8, 2021
    Inventors: Sharon Hüffner, Harold Nguyen, Richard Banks Sutton, Daniel Oshiro Nadir
  • Patent number: 10896473
    Abstract: Technology is disclosed for detecting imposters of a brand account. The technology can store a brand profile of the brand account, detect that a message has been publicly communicated to the brand account from a social media account, monitor messages sent publicly to the social media account from other social media accounts by repeatedly comparing the brand profile to metadata of each of the monitored messages, and identify at least one of the other social media accounts as an imposter account based on the comparing. The technology can cease the comparing at predetermined expiration time occurring after the detection of the message that was sent publicly to the brand account.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2021
    Assignee: PROOFPOINT, INC.
    Inventors: Sharon Hüffner, Harold Nguyen, Richard Banks Sutton, Daniel Oshiro Nadir
  • Patent number: 10841115
    Abstract: Methods of and systems for identifying a discrete participant among a plurality of participants in an audio/video communication (e.g., video content, digital video content, audio content, and audio-visual content) that include: receiving the audio/video communication; identifying from the audio/video communication content (e.g., using metadata from the broadcast content to identify each participant) multiple identification-related features for each participant; associating a first identification-related feature of a first participant to a second identification-related feature of the first participant; organizing the associated identification-related features of the first participant into a feature class(es); logically relating a first feature class to a second feature class; and attributing a grouping of logically-related feature classes to the discrete participant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: Theta Lake, Inc.
    Inventors: James E. Anderson, Derek Brenner, Anthony Cresci, Sharon Hüffner, Rohit Jain, Devin H. Redmond, Richard B. Sutton
  • Publication number: 20200145241
    Abstract: Methods of and systems for identifying a discrete participant among a plurality of participants in an audio/video communication (e.g., video content, digital video content, audio content, and audio-visual content) that include: receiving the audio/video communication; identifying from the audio/video communication content (e.g., using metadata from the broadcast content to identify each participant) multiple identification-related features for each participant; associating a first identification-related feature of a first participant to a second identification-related feature of the first participant; organizing the associated identification-related features of the first participant into a feature class(es); logically relating a first feature class to a second feature class; and attributing a grouping of logically-related feature classes to the discrete participant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2019
    Publication date: May 7, 2020
    Inventors: James E. Anderson, Derek Brenner, Anthony Cresci, Sharon Hüffner, Rohit Jain, Devin H. Redmond, Richard B. Sutton
  • Publication number: 20170358032
    Abstract: Technology is disclosed for detecting imposters of a brand account. The technology can store a brand profile of the brand account, detect that a message has been publicly communicated to the brand account from a social media account, monitor messages sent publicly to the social media account from other social media accounts by repeatedly comparing the brand profile to metadata of each of the monitored messages, and identify at least one of the other social media accounts as an imposter account based on the comparing. The technology can cease the comparing at predetermined expiration time occurring after the detection of the message that was sent publicly to the brand account.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2016
    Publication date: December 14, 2017
    Inventors: Sharon Hüffner, Harold Nguyen, Richard Banks Sutton, Daniel Oshiro Nadir
  • Patent number: D918934
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: Theta Lake, Inc.
    Inventors: James E. Anderson, Derek Brenner, Anthony Cresci, Sharon Hüffner, Rohit Jain, Devin H. Redmond, Richard B. Sutton
  • Patent number: D928178
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: Theta Lake, Inc.
    Inventors: James E. Anderson, Derek Brenner, Anthony Cresci, Sharon Hüffner, Rohit Jain, Devin H. Redmond, Richard B. Sutton
  • Patent number: D937862
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: Theta Lake, Inc.
    Inventors: James E. Anderson, Derek Brenner, Anthony Cresci, Sharon Hüffner, Rohit Jain, Devin H. Redmond, Richard B. Sutton
  • Patent number: D941356
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: Theta Lake, Inc.
    Inventors: James E. Anderson, Derek Brenner, Anthony Cresci, Sharon Hüffner, Rohit Jain, Devin H. Redmond, Richard B. Sutton
  • Patent number: D941851
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: Theta Lake, Inc.
    Inventors: James E. Anderson, Derek Brenner, Anthony Cresci, Sharon Hüffner, Rohit Jain, Devin H. Redmond, Richard B. Sutton