Patents by Inventor Valerie Torres

Valerie Torres 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: 10496654
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided to collect, analyze and report social media aggregated from a plurality of social media websites. Social media is retrieved from social media websites, analyzed for sentiment, and categorized by topic and user demographics. The data is then archived in a data warehouse and various interfaces are provided to query and generate reports on the archived data. In some embodiments, the system further recognizes alert conditions and sends alerts to interested users. In some embodiments, the system further recognizes situations where users can be influenced to view a company or its products in a more favorable light, and automatically posts responsive social media to one or more social media websites.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2019
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Junlan Feng, Luciano de Andrade Barbosa, Valerie Torres
  • Patent number: 9825973
    Abstract: Websites are monitored for changes over time. A domain name server resolves a domain name to a single internet protocol address and then performs a reverse resolution for the single internet protocol address. When multiple alias records resolve to the same host name, the domain name server determines the single internet protocol address virtually hosts multiple domain names.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2017
    Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
    Inventors: Daniel Sheleheda, Edward G. Amoroso, Cynthia Cama, Junlan Feng, Gregory Leibolt, Sanjay Macwan, William O'Hern, Valerie Torres, Yuhong Yu
  • Patent number: 9521165
    Abstract: A method for detecting potential phishing URLs includes extracting a URL from a document, analyzing the URL context, and comparing the URL to stored trusted URLs and stored known phishing URLs. The URL context includes anchor text and surrounding content associated with the URL. The method further includes generating a phishing alert based on the comparing and the analyzing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2016
    Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
    Inventors: Junlan Feng, Valerie Torres, Daniel G. Sheleheda
  • Publication number: 20160110429
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided to collect, analyze and report social media aggregated from a plurality of social media websites. Social media is retrieved from social media websites, analyzed for sentiment, and categorized by topic and user demographics. The data is then archived in a data warehouse and various interfaces are provided to query and generate reports on the archived data. In some embodiments, the system further recognizes alert conditions and sends alerts to interested users. In some embodiments, the system further recognizes situations where users can be influenced to view a company or its products in a more favorable light, and automatically posts responsive social media to one or more social media websites.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 31, 2015
    Publication date: April 21, 2016
    Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Junlan Feng, Luciano de Andrade Barbosa, Valerie Torres
  • Patent number: 9262517
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided to collect, analyze and report social media aggregated from a plurality of social media websites. Social media is retrieved from social media websites, analyzed for sentiment, and categorized by topic and user demographics. The data is then archived in a data warehouse and various interfaces are provided to query and generate reports on the archived data. In some embodiments, the system further recognizes alert conditions and sends alerts to interested users. In some embodiments, the system further recognizes situations where users can be influenced to view a company or its products in a more favorable light, and automatically posts responsive social media to one or more social media websites.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2016
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Junlan Feng, Luciano de Andrade Barbosa, Valerie Torres
  • Publication number: 20160014145
    Abstract: Websites are monitored for changes over time. A domain name server resolves a domain name to a single internet protocol address and then performs a reverse resolution for the single internet protocol address. When multiple alias records resolve to the same host name, the domain name server determines the single internet protocol address virtually hosts multiple domain names.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2015
    Publication date: January 14, 2016
    Applicant: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
    Inventors: Daniel Sheleheda, Edward G. Amoroso, Cynthia Cama, Junlan Feng, Gregory Leibolt, Sanjay Macwan, William O'Hern, Valerie Torres, Yuhong Yu
  • Patent number: 9172712
    Abstract: A method for locating and monitoring websites is provided that includes finding websites and contained hyperlinks, downloading a first snapshot of a web page taken at a first time, and downloading a second snapshot of the web page taken at a second time later than the first time. The method also includes enabling a comparison of the first snapshot and the second snapshot. A system for monitoring websites is provided. The system includes means for enabling a comparison of the first snapshot and the second snapshot visually or through the use of content data from that web site. A computer-readable recording medium having recorded thereon an executable program is provided. The program when executed causes a processor to perform a method for monitoring websites.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2015
    Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
    Inventors: Daniel Sheleheda, Edward G. Amoroso, Cynthia Cama, Junlan Feng, Gregory Leibolt, Sanjay Macwan, William O'Hern, Valerie Torres, Yuhong Yu
  • Publication number: 20150264086
    Abstract: A method for detecting potential phishing URLs includes extracting a URL from a document, analyzing the URL context, and comparing the URL to stored trusted URLs and stored known phishing URLs. The URL context includes anchor text and surrounding content associated with the URL. The method further includes generating a phishing alert based on the comparing and the analyzing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2015
    Publication date: September 17, 2015
    Inventors: Junlan Feng, Valerie Torres, Daniel G. Sheleheda
  • Patent number: 9058487
    Abstract: A method for detecting potential phishing URLs includes extracting a URL from a document, analyzing the URL context, and comparing the URL to stored trusted URLs and stored known phishing URLs. The URL context includes anchor text and surrounding content associated with the URL. The method further includes generating a phishing alert based on the comparing and the analyzing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2015
    Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
    Inventors: Junlan Feng, Valerie Torres, Daniel G. Sheleheda
  • Patent number: 8438642
    Abstract: A method for detecting potential phishing URLs includes extracting a URL from a document, analyzing the URL context, and comparing the URL to stored trusted URLs and stored known phishing URLs. The URL context includes anchor text and surrounding content associated with the URL. The method further includes generating a phishing alert based on the comparing and the analyzing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2013
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Junlan Feng, Valerie Torres, Daniel G. Sheleheda
  • Publication number: 20120047219
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided to collect, analyze and report social media aggregated from a plurality of social media websites. Social media is retrieved from social media websites, analyzed for sentiment, and categorized by topic and user demographics. The data is then archived in a data warehouse and various interfaces are provided to query and generate reports on the archived data. In some embodiments, the system further recognizes alert conditions and sends alerts to interested users. In some embodiments, the system further recognizes situations where users can be influenced to view a company or its products in a more favorable light, and automatically posts responsive social media to one or more social media websites.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2010
    Publication date: February 23, 2012
    Applicant: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
    Inventors: Junlan Feng, Luciano De Andrade Barbosa, Valerie Torres
  • Publication number: 20110083185
    Abstract: A method for locating and monitoring websites is provided that includes finding websites and contained hyperlinks, downloading a first snapshot of a web page taken at a first time, and downloading a second snapshot of the web page taken at a second time later than the first time. The method also includes enabling a comparison of the first snapshot and the second snapshot. A system for monitoring websites is provided. The system includes means for enabling a comparison of the first snapshot and the second snapshot visually or through the use of content data from that web site. A computer-readable recording medium having recorded thereon an executable program is provided. The program when executed causes a processor to perform a method for monitoring websites.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2009
    Publication date: April 7, 2011
    Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Daniel Sheleheda, Edward G. Amoroso, Cynthia Cama, Junlan Feng, Gregory Leibolt, Sanjay Macwan, William O'Hern, Valerie Torres, Yuhong Yu
  • Publication number: 20100313266
    Abstract: A method for detecting potential phishing URLs includes extracting a URL from a document, analyzing the URL context, and comparing the URL to stored trusted URLs and stored known phishing URLs. The URL context includes anchor text and surrounding content associated with the URL. The method further includes generating a phishing alert based on the comparing and the analyzing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2009
    Publication date: December 9, 2010
    Applicant: AT&T Corp.
    Inventors: Junlan Feng, Valerie Torres, Daniel G. Sheleheda
  • Publication number: 20100042623
    Abstract: Systems and methods are described that mine and track archived business documents for discovering business knowledge and intelligence using data mining, machine learning, statistics, and computational linguistics, from different linguistic sources according to their meaning.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 14, 2008
    Publication date: February 18, 2010
    Inventors: Junlan Feng, Valerie Torres