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).

  • Publication number: 20240176947
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2022
    Publication date: May 30, 2024
    Inventors: Andrea Varga, Sharon Huffner
  • 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: 20240039886
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2023
    Publication date: February 1, 2024
    Inventors: Sharon Huffner, Ali Mesdaq
  • Patent number: 11799823
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: PROOFPOINT, INC.
    Inventors: Sharon Huffner, Ali Mesdaq
  • 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: 20230169783
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2023
    Publication date: June 1, 2023
    Inventors: Gaurav Mitesh Dalal, Ali Mesdaq, Sharon Huffner, Harold Nguyen
  • 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
  • Patent number: 11580760
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: PROOFPOINT, INC.
    Inventors: Gaurav Mitesh Dalal, Ali Mesdaq, Sharon Huffner, Harold Nguyen
  • Publication number: 20220215046
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: January 7, 2022
    Publication date: July 7, 2022
    Inventors: Sharon Huffner, Rohit Jain, Devin H. Redmond, Richard B. Sutton
  • 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
  • Publication number: 20220038421
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2021
    Publication date: February 3, 2022
    Inventors: Sharon Huffner, Ali Mesdaq
  • 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
  • Patent number: 11171916
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: Proofpoint, Inc.
    Inventors: Sharon Huffner, Ali Mesdaq
  • 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: 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