Patents by Inventor Yijou Chen

Yijou Chen 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: 11973784
    Abstract: A natural language interface for an anomaly detection framework, including: receiving a natural language input associated with a cloud deployment; generating a query corresponding to the natural language input by disambiguating at least a portion of the natural language input based on data describing activity associated with an anomaly detection framework monitoring the cloud deployment; and providing, based on a response to the query, a response to the natural language input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: LACEWORK, INC.
    Inventors: Úlfar Erlingsson, Jay Parikh, Yijou Chen
  • Patent number: 11954130
    Abstract: A logical graph is generated using at least a portion of log data received from a set of agents executing on one or more nodes in one or more data centers. The logical graph is augmented using data obtained from one or more agents executing in containerized environments, including by representing communications between pods within the logical graph. The augmented logical graph is used to detect an anomaly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Lacework Inc.
    Inventors: Yijou Chen, Harish Kumar Bharat Singh, Murat Bog, Vikram Kapoor
  • Publication number: 20240106846
    Abstract: Detecting anomalous behavior using a browser extension, including: gathering first information describing activity associated with a user and generated by a browser extension on a user device; gathering second information describing activity associated with the user and generated by an application executed on the user device; and determining, based on the first information and the second information, whether the user has deviated from normal activity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2022
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: VIKRAM KAPOOR, HARISH KUMAR BHARAT SINGH, WEIFEI ZENG, VIMALKUMAR JEYAKUMAR, THERON TOCK, YING XIE, HOANG VIET NGUYEN, YIJOU CHEN
  • Publication number: 20240080329
    Abstract: An illustrative method for performing a risk scenario assessment and remediation may include identifying, based on posture data associated with a compute environment, one or more compute resources deployed in the compute environment that are configured to be connected to a network, accessing runtime workload data associated with the one or more compute resources representative of network activity for the one or more compute resources, and performing, based on the posture data and the runtime workload data, a remediation operation associated with the one or more compute resources.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2023
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Inventors: Theodore M. Reed, Nolan K. Karpinski, Xiaofei Guo, Christopher Hall, John Payyappillil John, Matti A. Vanninen, Naveen Kumar Bibinagar, Yijou Chen, Sowmya A. Karmali
  • Patent number: 11916947
    Abstract: Generating user-specific polygraphs for network activity, including: gathering information describing network activity associated with a user and generating, based on the information, a user-specific polygraph that includes one or more destinations associated with the network activity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: LACEWORK, INC.
    Inventors: Vikram Kapoor, Harish Kumar Bharat Singh, Weifei Zeng, Vimalkumar Jeyakumar, Theron Tock, Ying Xie, Yijou Chen
  • Patent number: 11909752
    Abstract: Detecting deviations from typical user behavior, including: identifying a geographic location of a device that is associated with a user; determining device activity associated with the user; and detecting, based on a profile associated with the user, that the device activity associated with the user deviates from normal activity for the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: LACEWORK, INC.
    Inventors: Vikram Kapoor, Harish Kumar Bharat Singh, Weifei Zeng, Vimalkumar Jeyakumar, Theron Tock, Ying Xie, Yijou Chen
  • Patent number: 11894984
    Abstract: Configuring cloud deployments based on learnings obtained by monitoring other cloud deployments, including: determining normal behavior for one or more components in a first cloud deployment; determining normal behavior for one or more components in one or more other cloud deployments; and recommending, based on the normal behavior for one or more components in one or more other cloud deployments, a change to the first cloud deployment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: LACEWORK, INC.
    Inventors: Úlfar Erlingsson, Yijou Chen
  • Patent number: 11895135
    Abstract: Detecting anomalous behavior of a device, including: generating, using information describing historical activity associated with a user device, a trained model for detecting normal activity for the user device; gathering information describing current activity associated with the user device; and determining, by using the information describing current activity associated with the user device as input to the trained model, whether the user device has deviated from normal activity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: LACEWORK, INC.
    Inventors: Vikram Kapoor, Harish Kumar Bharat Singh, Weifei Zeng, Vimalkumar Jeyakumar, Theron Tock, Ying Xie, Yijou Chen
  • Publication number: 20240031390
    Abstract: An illustrative method includes generating, based on log data associated with at least one user session in a network environment associated with a user, a logical graph, wherein the logical graph comprises: (1) a first node corresponding to the user, (2) a plurality of additional nodes, and (3) a set of edges connecting the first node to one or more of the additional nodes, wherein each edge in the set of edges represents a change in behavior of the user; using the logical graph to detect an anomaly, wherein detecting the anomaly includes determining that a change has been made to at least one edge included in the set of edges; and generating, in response to detecting the anomaly, an alert.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2023
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Inventors: Harish Kumar Bharat Singh, Vikram Kapoor, Murat Bog, Yijou Chen
  • Patent number: 11882141
    Abstract: In some embodiments, a data platform receives information associated with activities within a network environment, generates a logical graph based on the information, stores data representative of the logical graph in a database, receives, in response to a user interaction with an interface of the data platform, a request to filter the information, in response to the request generates a query using a graph-based schema, and performs the generated query against the database.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: Lacework Inc.
    Inventors: Yijou Chen, Sanjay Kalra, Vikram Kapoor
  • Patent number: 11849000
    Abstract: Using real-time monitoring to inform static analysis, including: inspecting, using one or more static code analysis techniques, one or more components of a cloud deployment; detecting, using data gathered during the execution of the component in the cloud deployment, a condition; and modifying, based on the detected condition, the one or more static code analysis techniques.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: LACEWORK, INC.
    Inventors: Oliver M. Williams, Yijou Chen
  • Patent number: 11818156
    Abstract: Providing a data lake-enabled security platform, including: storing security data associated with a customer in a data lake comprising a plurality of storage environments implemented in different cloud environments of a plurality of cloud environments; generating, based on a plurality of records in the security data, an abstracted security record describing one or more derived insights of the security data; and providing access to the abstracted security record to one or more users associated with the customer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: LACEWORK, INC.
    Inventors: Jay Parikh, Úlfar Erlingsson, Yijou Chen
  • Patent number: 11792284
    Abstract: Example systems and methods monitor a cloud compute environment. An example method includes an agent obtaining a data packet from an interface in the cloud compute environment, the data packet including a source address and a non-endpoint destination address; determining, based on the non-endpoint destination address and routing information for the data packet, an endpoint destination address associated with the non-endpoint destination address of the data packet; modifying the data packet by replacing the non-endpoint destination address with the endpoint destination address; and providing, based on the modified data packet, monitoring data to a data platform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Lacework, Inc.
    Inventors: Anil K. Nanduri, Prakash Jalan, Matti A. Vanninen, Ammar G. Ekbote, Alex Ramachandran Nirmala, Yijou Chen
  • Publication number: 20230328086
    Abstract: Detecting anomalous behavior using a browser extension, including: gathering first information describing activity associated with a user and generated by a browser extension on a user device; gathering second information describing activity associated with the user and generated by an application executed on the user device; and determining, based on the first information and the second information, whether the user has deviated from normal activity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2022
    Publication date: October 12, 2023
    Inventors: VIKRAM KAPOOR, Harish Kumar Bharat Singh, Weifei Zeng, Vimalkumar Jeyakumar, Theron Tock, Ying Xie, Yijou Chen
  • Patent number: 11785104
    Abstract: Learning from similar cloud deployments, including: identifying, for at least a portion of a first cloud deployment, one or more additional cloud deployments to utilize for cross-customer learning; receiving information describing configurations associated with the additional cloud deployments; and identifying, based on the configurations, one or more configurations to adopt for the first cloud deployment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: LACEWORK, INC.
    Inventors: Úlfar Erlingsson, Yijou Chen
  • Publication number: 20230319092
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and products for offline workflows in an edge-based data platform, including: accessing log data describing activity associated with a user; generating, based on the log data, one or more alerts; and initiating, based on the one or more alerts, a workflow to acknowledge the one or more alerts by the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2023
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Inventors: WEIFEI ZENG, HARISH KUMAR BHARAT SINGH, THERON TOCK, YING XIE, VIKRAM KAPOOR, VIMALKUMAR JEYAKUMAR, YIJOU CHEN
  • Patent number: 11770398
    Abstract: A guided anomaly detection framework, including: gathering data describing activity associated with an anomaly detection framework monitoring a cloud deployment; generating, based on the data, a prompt describing one or more natural language inputs for a security workflow, wherein each of the one or more natural language inputs corresponds to a query for information related to the cloud deployment; and providing a selected natural language input to a natural language interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: LACEWORK, INC.
    Inventors: Úlfar Erlingsson, Jay Parikh, Yijou Chen
  • Patent number: 11765249
    Abstract: Improving developer efficiency and application quality, including: collecting, for an executing application, information describing the usage of the application; identifying one or more unencountered conditions that the application is configured to handle; identifying one or more encountered conditions that the application is not configured to handle; and presenting information describing the unencountered conditions that the application is configured to handle and the encountered conditions that the application is not configured to handle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: LACEWORK, INC.
    Inventors: Úlfar Erlingsson, Yijou Chen
  • Publication number: 20230275917
    Abstract: Identifying an attack surface of a cloud deployment, including: identifying a security threat of a cloud deployment; gathering, from one or more components in a software development pipeline, information associated with the cloud deployment; identifying, based on the information associated with the cloud deployment, a portion of code enabling the security threat; and generating the alert based on the security threat and the identified portion of code.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 3, 2023
    Publication date: August 31, 2023
    Inventors: SOWMYA KARMALI, ALEXANDRA CHRISTENSEN, CHARLES Y. KIM, YIJOU CHEN
  • Patent number: 11741238
    Abstract: Dynamically generating monitoring tools for software applications, including: inspecting, using static code analysis, a non-executable representation of the application to identify one or more points in an application for monitoring; and for each of the one or more points in the application: generating a monitoring program; and inserting, into an executable representation of the application, the monitoring program at a location in the executable representation of the application that corresponds to the identified point in the application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: LACEWORK, INC.
    Inventors: Christien R. Rioux, Yijou Chen