Patents by Inventor Stephan Jou

Stephan Jou 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: 11699116
    Abstract: A system and method is described for providing custom predictive models for detecting electronic security threats within an enterprise computer network. The custom models may be defined in a declarative language. The custom models, along with native models, may be combined together to provide custom machine learning (ML) use cases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: Interset Software Inc.
    Inventors: Stephan Jou, Mario Daigle, Shaun Pilkington, Michael John Cyze, Josh Mahonin, Wesley Lawrence
  • Patent number: 11218487
    Abstract: Predictive entity resolution uses a set of identity models to resolve an attribute to one or more associated entities, possibly with respective probabilities, at a particular time. The predictive entity resolution generates the sets of identity models from evidence events received from evidence sources. Each evidence event has at least one attribute and an associated time stamp.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: INTERSET SOFTWARE, INC.
    Inventors: Michael Iles, Stephan Jou
  • Patent number: 11150976
    Abstract: First-order anomaly scores are received from related anomaly detectors. Each first-order anomaly score indicates a likelihood of an anomaly at a target system. A relatedness measure of the related anomaly detectors is determined, based on the first-order anomaly scores that have been received. A higher-order anomaly score is determined based on the relatedness measure that has been determined. The higher-order anomaly score indicates a likelihood of an anomaly at the target system. An anomaly at the target system is detected based on the higher-order anomaly score.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: MICRO FOCUS LLC
    Inventors: Manish Marwah, Martin Arlitt, Maria Pospelova, Stephan Jou
  • Publication number: 20210089648
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method, system and computer program product for analyzing risks, for example associated with potential data leakage. Risk for activities may be measured as a function of risk components related to: persons involved in the activity; sensitivity of data at risk; endpoint receiving data at risk; and type the activity. Risk may account for the probability of a leakage event given an activity as well as a risk cost which reflects the above risk components. Manually and/or automatically tuned parameters may be used to affect the risk calculation. Risk associated with persons and/or files may be obtained by: initializing risk scores of persons or files based on a rule set; adjusting the risk scores in response to ongoing monitoring of events; identifying commonalities across persons or files; and propagating risk scores based on the commonalities.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2019
    Publication date: March 25, 2021
    Inventors: Stephan Jou, Shaun Pilkington
  • Patent number: 10754983
    Abstract: Sensitive data may be anonymized for use in user interfaces by applying a cryptographic hash function to the data. The hashed value may be broken into hash tokens and the hash tokens converted to human readable tokens using a 1:1 conversion function. The human readable tokens can then be concatenated together to provide a human readable identifier of the sensitive data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: Interset Software Inc.
    Inventors: Josh Christopher Tyler Mahonin, Michael John Cyze, Michael Iles, Shaun Pilkington, Wesley Lawrence, Stephan Jou
  • Publication number: 20190318203
    Abstract: A system and method is described for providing custom predictive models for detecting electronic security threats within an enterprise computer network. The custom models may be defined in a declarative language. The custom models, along with native models, may be combined together to provide custom machine learning (ML) use cases.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2019
    Publication date: October 17, 2019
    Inventors: Stephan Jou, Mario Daigle, Shaun Pilkington, Michael John Cyze, Josh Mahonin, Wesley Lawrence
  • Patent number: 10402512
    Abstract: The present invention provides methods for providing mathematical regression analysis. In particular, the method for conducting regression analysis comprises the steps of: selecting a regression model; selecting an initial set of regression parameters; applying the regression model to the initial set of regression parameters to create an initial set of regression values; selecting an improved set of regression values, wherein the improved set of regression values is selected from the set of initial regression values; generating a loss function based on the improved set; applying an iterative optimization method to the loss function and the improved set of regression values to generate a resultant set of regression values; and outputting the resultant set of regression values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Assignee: Interset Software Inc.
    Inventors: Stephan Jou, Shaun Pilkington
  • Patent number: 10360387
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method of identifying aggregating and mathematically ranking security alert data having the steps of identifying a plurality of alerts, selecting a subset of the plurality alerts based on at least one preselected theme, applying a function to the subset of the plurality alerts to compute an aggregate risk score, the function based on at least one factor and prioritizing the aggregate risk score in a risk score list.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2019
    Assignee: Interset Software, Inc.
    Inventors: Stephan Jou, Shaun Pilkington, Michael John Cyze
  • Publication number: 20190044969
    Abstract: The systems and methods described herein, given a population of entities each with associated information technology (IT) security risk scores, computes an aggregate risk score which quantifies the overall risk of the population. The method works for any arbitrary population of any size, and of any combination of different entity types and results in normalized risk scores for the arbitrary population (i.e. in the [0,1] range, regardless of population size or makeup). Since the risk scores are normalized, it affords comparison across different arbitrary entity populations having different combinations of entity types (e.g. users, servers, and printers). The aggregation technique allows for sensitivity to small numbers of high risk entities, which is a highly desirable characteristic for risk-based applications, and allows for sensitivity to different entity types or other relevant factors such as higher risk users, different threat types.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2018
    Publication date: February 7, 2019
    Inventors: Shaun PILKINGTON, Michael John CYZE, Stephan JOU
  • Publication number: 20190044965
    Abstract: Humans as well as non-human actors may interact with computer devices on a computer network. As described herein, it is possible to train and apply human vs. non-human detection models to provide an indication of the probability that a human or a non-human actor was interacting with a computer device during a particular time period. The probability that a human or non-human was interacting with computers during a particular time may be used to improve various actions, including selecting one or more different threat detection models to apply during the particular time, selecting data to use with threat detection models during the time, or selecting data from the particular time to store.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2018
    Publication date: February 7, 2019
    Inventors: Shaun PILKINGTON, Maria POSPELOVA, Stephan JOU
  • Publication number: 20180285597
    Abstract: Sensitive data may be anonymized for use in user interfaces by applying a cryptographic hash function to the data. The hashed value may be broken into hash tokens and the hash tokens converted to human readable tokens using a 1:1 conversion function. The human readable tokens can then be concatenated together to provide a human readable identifier of the sensitive data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2017
    Publication date: October 4, 2018
    Inventors: Josh Christopher Tyler MAHONIN, Michael John CYZE, Michael ILES, Shaun PILKINGTON, Wesley LAWRENCE, Stephan JOU
  • Publication number: 20180052993
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method, system and computer program product for analyzing risks, for example associated with potential data leakage. Risk for activities may be measured as a function of risk components related to: persons involved in the activity; sensitivity of data at risk; endpoint receiving data at risk; and type the activity. Risk may account for the probability of a leakage event given an activity as well as a risk cost which reflects the above risk components. Manually and/or automatically tuned parameters may be used to affect the risk calculation. Risk associated with persons and/or files may be obtained by: initializing risk scores of persons or files based on a rule set; adjusting the risk scores in response to ongoing monitoring of events; identifying commonalities across persons or files; and propagating risk scores based on the commonalities.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2017
    Publication date: February 22, 2018
    Inventors: Stephan Jou, Shaun Pilkington
  • Patent number: 9830450
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method, system and computer program product for analyzing risks, for example associated with potential data leakage. Risk for activities may be measured as a function of risk components related to: persons involved in the activity; sensitivity of data at risk; endpoint receiving data at risk; and type the activity. Risk may account for the probability of a leakage event given an activity as well as a risk cost which reflects the above risk components. Manually and/or automatically tuned parameters may be used to affect the risk calculation. Risk associated with persons and/or files may be obtained by: initializing risk scores of persons or files based on a rule set; adjusting the risk scores in response to ongoing monitoring of events; identifying commonalities across persons or files; and propagating risk scores based on the commonalities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2017
    Assignee: Interset Software, Inc.
    Inventors: Stephan Jou, Shaun Pilkington
  • Publication number: 20160344762
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method of identifying aggregating and mathematically ranking security alert data having the steps of identifying a plurality of alerts, selecting a subset of the plurality alerts based on at least one preselected theme, applying a function to the subset of the plurality alerts to compute an aggregate risk score, the function based on at least one factor and prioritizing the aggregate risk score in a risk score list.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2016
    Publication date: November 24, 2016
    Inventors: Stephan Jou, Shaun Pilkington, Michael John Cyze
  • Publication number: 20160321382
    Abstract: The present invention provides methods for providing mathematical regression analysis. In particular, the method for conducting regression analysis comprises the steps of: selecting a regression model; selecting an initial set of regression parameters; applying the regression model to the initial set of regression parameters to create an initial set of regression values; selecting an improved set of regression values, wherein the improved set of regression values is selected from the set of initial regression values; generating a loss function based on the improved set; applying an iterative optimization method to the loss function and the improved set of regression values to generate a resultant set of regression values; and outputting the resultant set of regression values.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 2, 2016
    Publication date: November 3, 2016
    Inventors: Stephan Jou, Shaun Pilkington
  • Patent number: 9239819
    Abstract: A report rendering system and method of filtering and navigating reports on mobile devices are provided. The report rendering system comprises a scene generator for generating a scene of a report in response to a request to view the report or a subset of the report and a navigation module for storing selected components within the scene. The method comprises the steps of generating a scene of a report in response to a request to view the report or a subset of the report and storing selected components within the scene.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2016
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Stephan Jou, Doug Liversidge
  • Publication number: 20150205954
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method, system and computer program product for analyzing risks, for example associated with potential data leakage. Risk for activities may be measured as a function of risk components related to: persons involved in the activity; sensitivity of data at risk; endpoint receiving data at risk; and type the activity. Risk may account for the probability of a leakage event given an activity as well as a risk cost which reflects the above risk components. Manually and/or automatically tuned parameters may be used to affect the risk calculation. Risk associated with persons and/or files may be obtained by: initializing risk scores of persons or files based on a rule set; adjusting the risk scores in response to ongoing monitoring of events; identifying commonalities across persons or files; and propagating risk scores based on the commonalities.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2014
    Publication date: July 23, 2015
    Inventors: Stephan Jou, Shaun Pilkington
  • Patent number: 8656371
    Abstract: A report representation system and method of transforming report outputs into a standard representation format are provided. The report representation system comprises a report parser for parsing a report output, a code generator for generating a standard representation code of the report output and a code compiler for converting the standard representation code into a format representable as a fixed schema repository. The method comprises the steps of parsing a report output, generating a standard representation code of the report output and converting the standard representation code into a format representable as a fixed schema repository.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2014
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventor: Stephan Jou
  • Publication number: 20080201356
    Abstract: A report representation system and method of transforming report outputs into a standard representation format are provided. The report representation system comprises a report parser for parsing a report output, a code generator for generating a standard representation code of the report output and a code compiler for converting the standard representation code into a format representable as a fixed schema repository. The method comprises the steps of parsing a report output, generating a standard representation code of the report output and converting the standard representation code into a format representable as a fixed schema repository.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2007
    Publication date: August 21, 2008
    Applicant: Cognos Incorporated
    Inventor: Stephan Jou
  • Publication number: 20080198156
    Abstract: A report rendering system and method of filtering and navigating reports on mobile devices are provided. The report rendering system comprises a scene generator for generating a scene of a report in response to a request to view the report or a subset of the report and a navigation module for storing selected components within the scene.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2007
    Publication date: August 21, 2008
    Applicant: Cognos Incorporated
    Inventors: Stephan Jou, Doug Liversidge