Patents by Inventor Shitalkumar S. Sawant

Shitalkumar S. Sawant 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: 9691027
    Abstract: Machine-learning based detection (MLD) profiles can be used to identify sensitive information in documents. The MLD profile can be used to generate a confidence value for the document that expresses the degree of confidence with which the MLD profile can classify the document as sensitive or not. In one embodiment, a data loss prevention system provides or suggests a confidence level threshold to a user of the data loss prevention system by providing a confidence level threshold for the MLD profile to the user, the confidence level threshold to be used as the boundary between sensitive data and non-sensitive data. In one embodiment the provided confidence level threshold is determined by scanning a random data set using the MLD profile.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2017
    Assignee: Symantec Corporation
    Inventors: Shitalkumar S. Sawant, Vikram Shrowty, Philip DiCorpo
  • Patent number: 9177261
    Abstract: A computing device receives a training data set that includes a plurality of positive examples of sensitive data and a plurality of negative examples of sensitive data. The computing device analyzes the training data set using machine learning to generate a machine learning-based detection (MLD) profile that can be used to classify new data as sensitive data or as non-sensitive data. The computing device computes a quality metric for the MLD profile.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2015
    Assignee: Symantec Corporation
    Inventors: Phillip DiCorpo, Shitalkumar S. Sawant, Sally Kauffman, Alan Dale Galindez, Sumesh Jaiswal, Ashish Aggarwal
  • Patent number: 9015082
    Abstract: A computing device receives a training data set that comprises a plurality of sensitive documents and a plurality of non-sensitive documents. The computing device determines a quality of the training data set. The quality may be determined using k-fold cross validation and/or latent semantic indexing. In response to determining that the training data set has a satisfactory quality, the computing device then analyzes the training data set using machine learning to train a machine learning-based detection (MLD) profile, the MLD profile to be used by a data loss prevention (DLP) system to classify new documents as sensitive documents or as non-sensitive documents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2015
    Assignee: Symantec Corporation
    Inventors: Sumesh Jaiswal, Ashish Aggarwal, Phillip DiCorpo, Shitalkumar S. Sawant, Sally Kauffman, Alan Dale Galindez
  • Patent number: 8862522
    Abstract: A computing device receives a document that was incorrectly classified as sensitive data based on a machine learning-based detection (MLD) profile. The computing device modifies a training data set that was used to generate the MLD profile by adding the document to the training data set as a negative example of sensitive data to generate a modified training data set. The computing device then analyzes the modified training data set using machine learning to generate an updated MLD profile.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2014
    Assignee: Symantec Corporation
    Inventors: Sumesh Jaiswal, Ashish Aggarwal, Phillip DiCorpo, Shitalkumar S. Sawant, Sally Kauffman, Alan Dale Galindez
  • Publication number: 20140304197
    Abstract: A computing device receives a document that was incorrectly classified as sensitive data based on a machine learning-based detection (MLD) profile. The computing device modifies a training data set that was used to generate the MLD profile by adding the document to the training data set as a negative example of sensitive data to generate a modified training data set. The computing device then analyzes the modified training data set using machine learning to generate an updated MLD profile.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2011
    Publication date: October 9, 2014
    Inventors: Sumesh Jaiswal, Ashish Aggarwal, Phillip DiCorpo, Shitalkumar S. Sawant, Sally Kauffman, Alan Dale Galindez
  • Publication number: 20140172760
    Abstract: A computing device receives a training data set that includes a plurality of positive examples of sensitive data and a plurality of negative examples of sensitive data. The computing device analyzes the training data set using machine learning to generate a machine learning-based detection (MLD) profile that can be used to classify new data as sensitive data or as non-sensitive data. The computing device computes a quality metric for the MLD profile.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2014
    Publication date: June 19, 2014
    Applicant: Symantec Corporation
    Inventors: Phillip DiCorpo, Shitalkumar S. Sawant, Sally Kauffman, Alan Dale Galindez, Sumesh Jaiswal, Ashish Aggarwal
  • Patent number: 8682814
    Abstract: A computing device receives a training data set that includes a plurality of positive examples of sensitive data and a plurality of negative examples of sensitive data via a user interface. The computing device analyzes the training data set using machine learning to generate a machine learning-based detection (MLD) profile that can be used to classify new data as sensitive data or as non-sensitive data. The computing device displays a quality metric for the MLD profile in the user interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2014
    Assignee: Symantec Corporation
    Inventors: Phillip DiCorpo, Shitalkumar S. Sawant, Sally Kauffman, Alan Dale Galindez, Sumesh Jaiswal, Ashish Aggarwal
  • Publication number: 20120150773
    Abstract: A computing device receives a training data set that includes a plurality of positive examples of sensitive data and a plurality of negative examples of sensitive data via a user interface. The computing device analyzes the training data set using machine learning to generate a machine learning-based detection (MLD) profile that can be used to classify new data as sensitive data or as non-sensitive data. The computing device displays a quality metric for the MLD profile in the user interface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2011
    Publication date: June 14, 2012
    Inventors: Phillip DiCorpo, Shitalkumar S. Sawant, Sally Kauffman, Alan Dale Galindez, Sumesh Jaiswal, Ashish Aggarwal