Patents by Inventor Sharon Huffner
Sharon Huffner 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).
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Patent number: 12231390Abstract: Disclosed is a domain engineering analysis solution that determines relevance of a domain name to a brand name in which a domain name, brand name, and identification of a substring of the domain name may be provided to or obtained by a computer embodying a domain engineering analyzer. A list of features may be determined. The list of features may include a lexicon, or a set of key-value pairs that encode information about terms included as substrings in the domain name. Determining the features may include obtaining a language model for each term, analyzing a cluster of language models closest to the obtained language model, and determining and scoring a relevance of each term to the brand name. The determined relevance and score of each term may be provided to a client. This relevance analysis can be dynamically applied in an online process or proactively applied in an offline process.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2023Date of Patent: February 18, 2025Assignee: Proofpoint, Inc.Inventors: Sharon Huffner, Ali Mesdaq
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Publication number: 20240354492Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for using natural language processing to generate sound-alikes and look-alikes for potentially relevant terms that could be mis-transcribed in a transcript. The disclosed framework combines the advantages of several measures aimed at tackling a wide range of transcription errors including but not limited to word boundary errors, phonetic confusion of words, spelling mistakes, grammatical errors, character drops, etc. In some examples, morphological similarity and phonetic similarity are used to address the word boundary errors and phonetic confusion of words. In some examples, a spell checker, word formation, and look-alike sound-alike generator are used to address errors such as phonetic confusion, spelling mistakes and grammatical errors. The generated sound-alikes can be ranked, which enables a flexible application of the generated phrases.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 28, 2024Publication date: October 24, 2024Inventors: Andrea Varga, Sharon Hüffner
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Patent number: 12045561Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for using natural language processing to generate sound-alikes and look-alikes for potentially relevant terms that could be mis-transcribed in a transcript. The disclosed framework combines the advantages of several measures aimed at tackling a wide range of transcription errors including but not limited to word boundary errors, phonetic confusion of words, spelling mistakes, grammatical errors, character drops, etc. In some examples, morphological similarity and phonetic similarity are used to address the word boundary errors and phonetic confusion of words. In some examples, a spell checker, word formation, and look-alike sound-alike generator are used to address errors such as phonetic confusion, spelling mistakes and grammatical errors. The generated sound-alikes can be ranked, which enables a flexible application of the generated phrases.Type: GrantFiled: November 28, 2022Date of Patent: July 23, 2024Assignee: THETA LAKE, INC.Inventors: Andrea Varga, Sharon Huffner
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Publication number: 20240176947Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for using natural language processing to generate sound-alikes and look-alikes for potentially relevant terms that could be mis-transcribed in a transcript. The disclosed framework combines the advantages of several measures aimed at tackling a wide range of transcription errors including but not limited to word boundary errors, phonetic confusion of words, spelling mistakes, grammatical errors, character drops, etc. In some examples, morphological similarity and phonetic similarity are used to address the word boundary errors and phonetic confusion of words. In some examples, a spell checker, word formation, and look-alike sound-alike generator are used to address errors such as phonetic confusion, spelling mistakes and grammatical errors. The generated sound-alikes can be ranked, which enables a flexible application of the generated phrases.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 28, 2022Publication date: May 30, 2024Inventors: Andrea Varga, Sharon Huffner
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Patent number: 11914963Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 4, 2021Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: THETA LAKE, INC.Inventors: Rohit Jain, Devin H. Redmond, Richard B. Sutton, Alon Albalak, Sharon Hüffner
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Publication number: 20240039886Abstract: Disclosed is a domain engineering analysis solution that determines relevance of a domain name to a brand name in which a domain name, brand name, and identification of a substring of the domain name may be provided to or obtained by a computer embodying a domain engineering analyzer. A list of features may be determined. The list of features may include a lexicon, or a set of key-value pairs that encode information about terms included as substrings in the domain name. Determining the features may include obtaining a language model for each term, analyzing a cluster of language models closest to the obtained language model, and determining and scoring a relevance of each term to the brand name. The determined relevance and score of each term may be provided to a client. This relevance analysis can be dynamically applied in an online process or proactively applied in an offline process.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 29, 2023Publication date: February 1, 2024Inventors: Sharon Huffner, Ali Mesdaq
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Patent number: 11799823Abstract: Disclosed is a domain engineering analysis solution that determines relevance of a domain name to a brand name in which a domain name, brand name, and identification of a substring of the domain name may be provided to or obtained by a computer embodying a domain engineering analyzer. A list of features may be determined. The list of features may include a lexicon, or a set of key-value pairs that encode information about terms included as substrings in the domain name. Determining the features may include obtaining a language model for each term, analyzing a cluster of language models closest to the obtained language model, and determining and scoring a relevance of each term to the brand name. The determined relevance and score of each term may be provided to a client. This relevance analysis can be dynamically applied in an online process or proactively applied in an offline process.Type: GrantFiled: October 13, 2021Date of Patent: October 24, 2023Assignee: PROOFPOINT, INC.Inventors: Sharon Huffner, Ali Mesdaq
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Publication number: 20230325946Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: June 5, 2023Publication date: October 12, 2023Inventors: Sharon Hüffner, Harold Nguyen, Richard Banks Sutton, David Oshiro Nadir
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Patent number: 11710195Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: January 11, 2021Date of Patent: July 25, 2023Assignee: PROOFPOINT, INC.Inventors: Sharon Hüffner, Harold Nguyen, Richard Banks Sutton, Daniel Oshiro Nadir
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Publication number: 20230169783Abstract: Disclosed is an effective domain name defense solution in which a domain name string may be provided to or obtained by a computer embodying a visual domain analyzer. The domain name string may be rendered or otherwise converted to an image. An optical character recognition function may be applied to the image to read out a text string which can then be compared with a protected domain name to determine whether the text string generated by the optical character recognition function from the image converted from the domain name string is similar to or matches the protected domain name. This visual domain analysis can be dynamically applied in an online process or proactively applied in an offline process to hundreds of millions of domain names.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 12, 2023Publication date: June 1, 2023Inventors: Gaurav Mitesh Dalal, Ali Mesdaq, Sharon Huffner, Harold Nguyen
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Publication number: 20230069524Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: August 8, 2022Publication date: March 2, 2023Inventors: Sharon Hüffner, Richard B. Sutton, Devin H. Redmond
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Patent number: 11580760Abstract: Disclosed is an effective domain name defense solution in which a domain name string may be provided to or obtained by a computer embodying a visual domain analyzer. The domain name string may be rendered or otherwise converted to an image. An optical character recognition function may be applied to the image to read out a text string which can then be compared with a protected domain name to determine whether the text string generated by the optical character recognition function from the image converted from the domain name string is similar to or matches the protected domain name. This visual domain analysis can be dynamically applied in an online process or proactively applied in an offline process to hundreds of millions of domain names.Type: GrantFiled: May 4, 2020Date of Patent: February 14, 2023Assignee: PROOFPOINT, INC.Inventors: Gaurav Mitesh Dalal, Ali Mesdaq, Sharon Huffner, Harold Nguyen
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Publication number: 20220215046Abstract: Systems and methods for enhanced rule-based querying of unstructured text using graph analysis are provided. Some embodiments apply machine learning to the analysis of unstructured text to identify regulatory, privacy, and cybersecurity risks. In some embodiments, a query string is provided to identify desired content in the unstructured text. The query string is tokenized and the tokenized parts are converted into nodes of a query graph and relationships are defining between the nodes. After identifying matches between terms in target text with nodes of the query graph, a graph is generated using matched terms as nodes. Based on the defined relationships, a determination is made whether any group of nodes on the graph satisfy the query string. Any matched nodes are mapped to the target text, and this information is provided to an analyst or reviewer for further consideration or action.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 7, 2022Publication date: July 7, 2022Inventors: Sharon Huffner, Rohit Jain, Devin H. Redmond, Richard B. Sutton
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Publication number: 20220191430Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: October 14, 2021Publication date: June 16, 2022Inventors: James E. Anderson, Devin H. Redmond, Richard B. Sutton, Sharon Hüffner, Derek Brenner
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Publication number: 20220038421Abstract: Disclosed is a domain engineering analysis solution that determines relevance of a domain name to a brand name in which a domain name, brand name, and identification of a substring of the domain name may be provided to or obtained by a computer embodying a domain engineering analyzer. A list of features may be determined. The list of features may include a lexicon, or a set of key-value pairs that encode information about terms included as substrings in the domain name. Determining the features may include obtaining a language model for each term, analyzing a cluster of language models closest to the obtained language model, and determining and scoring a relevance of each term to the brand name. The determined relevance and score of each term may be provided to a client. This relevance analysis can be dynamically applied in an online process or proactively applied in an offline process.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 13, 2021Publication date: February 3, 2022Inventors: Sharon Huffner, Ali Mesdaq
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Patent number: 11190733Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 9, 2018Date of Patent: November 30, 2021Assignee: Theta Lake, Inc.Inventors: James E. Anderson, Devin H. Redmond, Richard B. Sutton, Sharon Hüffner, Derek Brenner
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Patent number: 11171916Abstract: Disclosed is a domain engineering analysis solution that determines relevance of a domain name to a brand name in which a domain name, brand name, and identification of a substring of the domain name may be provided to or obtained by a computer embodying a domain engineering analyzer. A list of features may be determined. The list of features may include a lexicon, or a set of key-value pairs that encode information about terms included as substrings in the domain name. Determining the features may include obtaining a language model for each term, analyzing a cluster of language models closest to the obtained language model, and determining and scoring a relevance of each term to the brand name. The determined relevance and score of each term may be provided to a client. This relevance analysis can be dynamically applied in an online process or proactively applied in an offline process.Type: GrantFiled: May 4, 2020Date of Patent: November 9, 2021Assignee: Proofpoint, Inc.Inventors: Sharon Huffner, Ali Mesdaq
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Patent number: D937862Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2019Date of Patent: December 7, 2021Assignee: Theta Lake, Inc.Inventors: James E. Anderson, Derek Brenner, Anthony Cresci, Sharon Hüffner, Rohit Jain, Devin H. Redmond, Richard B. Sutton
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Patent number: D941356Type: GrantFiled: July 3, 2019Date of Patent: January 18, 2022Assignee: Theta Lake, Inc.Inventors: James E. Anderson, Derek Brenner, Anthony Cresci, Sharon Hüffner, Rohit Jain, Devin H. Redmond, Richard B. Sutton
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Patent number: D941851Type: GrantFiled: July 3, 2019Date of Patent: January 25, 2022Assignee: Theta Lake, Inc.Inventors: James E. Anderson, Derek Brenner, Anthony Cresci, Sharon Hüffner, Rohit Jain, Devin H. Redmond, Richard B. Sutton