Patents by Inventor Stuart Teng

Stuart Teng 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).

  • Detecting anomalous application access to contact information
    Patent number: 8850406
    Abstract: A client device may install an application. The client device may also maintain a shared set of contact information separate from the application. If the client device determines that, within a fixed time period, the application has read from the shared set of contact information, but has not written a threshold extent of data to the shared set of contact information, the client device may indicate to at least one of the user interface of client device and a server device that the application is exhibiting anomalous behavior. If the server device receives such indications from at least a threshold number of client devices, the server device may instruct the client device to disable or uninstall the application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel L. Morrill, Stuart Teng