Credential Usage Patents (Class 726/19)
  • Patent number: 11481808
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatuses for identifier matching and management are described herein. In various embodiments, the system includes a distributed architecture for receiving and matching public and secure identifiers associated with a particular consumer. In particular embodiments, the system uses the matched public and secure identifiers to transmit one or more messages to the particular consumer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: Cardlytics, Inc.
    Inventors: Jeffrey Chelko, Julio Farach, Scott Grimes, Joseph Schab, Jacob Warhaftig
  • Patent number: 11482037
    Abstract: A user interface display method of a terminal includes receiving, by the terminal, a first operation from a user to unlock the terminal when a screen of the terminal is off or the terminal displays a first interface, where the first interface is a lock screen of the terminal, displaying, by the terminal, a third user interface when the first operation meets a preset unlock condition and when the user continues to operate the terminal after entering the first operation, receiving, by the terminal in the third user interface, a second operation from the user, and executing a function corresponding to the second operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Weiqiang Gao, Chuang Cui
  • Patent number: 11482039
    Abstract: A method for biometrics spoofing detection according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes receiving a biometric authentication request from an application, acquiring biometrics at a sensor, and applying a machine learning-based anti-spoofing scheme to the biometrics based on an authentication purpose of the biometrics. The anti-spoofing scheme for biometrics of the present disclosure may include a deep neural network generated by machine learning, and may be used in an Internet of Things environment using a 5G network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Young Ho Sohn, Young Yeon Seo, Chang Jun Yeo, Jin Seok Yang
  • Patent number: 11480904
    Abstract: An iconographic control panel of an image forming apparatus is provided. The iconographic control panel includes a plurality of physical iconographic control buttons respectively corresponding to a plurality of functions of the image forming apparatus, each of the plurality of physical iconographic control buttons comprising at least one dedicated light emitting diode, and at least one processor to determine an availability of the plurality of functions of the image forming apparatus respectively corresponding to each of the plurality of physical iconographic control buttons, determine a functional state of the plurality of functions of the image forming apparatus determined to be available, and control an illumination of the at least one LED of each of the plurality of physical iconographic control buttons based on the availability of each function corresponding to each of the plurality of physical iconographic control buttons and the functional state of each function determined to be available.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Pratik Shah, Andrew Chick, Kenneth K. Smith, Eun-Kyung Yun, Hye Heon Jung, Dustin C. Rosing, KyongHwan Kim, ChangYeop Oh, KwangSung Park, Nanette Jensen, Virginia K. Capps
  • Patent number: 11481480
    Abstract: A device authenticates a request to verify a user. The device accesses a face image that depicts a face of the person and includes a characteristic noise pattern inserted by a camera of the device. The device also accesses a geolocation at which the device captured the face image and inputs the face image and the geolocation into an artificial intelligence engine that outputs a face score, a device score, and a location score. The device next submits the request with the scores to a server machine and obtains an authentication score from the server machine. The device then presents an indication that the request to verify the person is authentic based on a comparison of the obtained authentication score to a threshold authentication score.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: Callsign Inc.
    Inventors: Gabriel Dominguez Conde, Yogesh Kumar Jitendra Patel, Peter Alexander Foster
  • Patent number: 11468903
    Abstract: A system, device and method for enforcing privacy during a communication session with a voice assistant are disclosed. In response to a determination that an environment of a first voice assistant device is not private, a first secure communication session between the first voice assistant device and an application server is suspended. In response a determination that one or more other voice assistant devices have been authorized for communication with the application server is made and input to transfer the first secure communication session, a second secure communication session between a second voice assistant device and the application server is initiated. The first secure communication session between the first voice assistant device and the application server is terminated in response to successful initiation of the second secure communication session.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: The Toronto-Dominion Bank
    Inventors: Milos Dunjic, David Samuel Tax, Arthur Carroll Chow, Peter Glen Nairn, Edward James Hood, Martin Albert Lozon, John Jong-Suk Lee, Arun Victor Jagga
  • Patent number: 11469893
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure include methods, systems, and non-transitory computer readable media that perform the steps of transmitting a token to a gateway, receiving a response token including an encrypted message, decrypting the encrypted message using a decryption key associated with the token to generate a decrypted message, validating content of the decrypted message, transmitting a certificate request in response to successfully validating the content of the decrypted message, receiving a certificate in response to the request, validating the certificate against a certification authority, and transmitting encrypted data via a secured connection in response to successfully validating the certificate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: JOHNSON CONTROLS TYCO IP HOLDINGS LLP
    Inventors: Rolando Herrero, Jerry Xiaowen Wu
  • Patent number: 11463775
    Abstract: Provided is an image display device including: a communication unit configured to receive, from a control device, a control command for controlling an operation of the image display device; a memory storing one or more instructions; and a processor configured to execute the one or more instructions stored in the memory, wherein the processor is configured to execute the one or more instructions to: receive first user information about a first user corresponding to a user of the control device and authentication state information representing a user authentication state in the control device; when the control command includes an operation request that requires authentication, perform the authentication based on the first user information, the authentication state information, and second user information about a second user corresponding to a user of the image display device; and perform the operation in response to the control command.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Junho Hwang, Hoseock Choi
  • Patent number: 11460980
    Abstract: An artificial intelligence-based system and method for automatically generating and adjusting tags associated with one or more UI/UX related components or features is provided. Analysis may be performed on the data collected by the one or more tags so that design change recommendations can be dynamically recommended and/or implemented. When design changes are implemented, the system may automatically reconfigure or adjust all relevant tags. The AI-based system may be a standalone platform or may be incorporated into existing UI/UX programs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: Capital One Services, LLC
    Inventors: Joseph Goldstein, Kevin Park, Wenjie Liu
  • Patent number: 11455363
    Abstract: An electronic device is disclosed. The electronic device comprises: a communication unit for performing communication with a server; and a processor which, when a user inputs a user command for accessing the server through a uniform resource locator (URL) including resource access requirement information for a resource, required by the server to provide a service, determines whether a resource corresponding to the resource access requirement information exists in the electronic device, and according to whether the resource corresponding to the resource access requirement information exists, controls the communication unit such that access to the server is performed using a network address included in the URL.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Joon-hwan Kwon, Hong-uk Woo
  • Patent number: 11455035
    Abstract: In example implementations, a virtual reality (VR) system is provided. The VR system includes a head mounted display (HMD), a hand wearable interface, a wireless communication interface, and a processor. The HMD is to display a computer generated artificial world. The wireless communication interface is to establish a wireless communication path. The processor is communicatively coupled to the HMD, the hand wearable interface, and the wireless communication interface. The processor is to receive an indication that a touch screen device is located from a locator device in the HMD or the hand wearable device, to establish a wireless connection to the touch screen device via the wireless communication interface, and to receive an input via the touch screen device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Horii, Mithra Vankipuram, Ian N. Robinson
  • Patent number: 11450141
    Abstract: An electronic device with fingerprint sensing function and a fingerprint comparison method are provided. The electronic device includes a fingerprint sensor and a processor. The fingerprint sensor is configured to obtain a first fingerprint image. The processor is coupled to the fingerprint sensor and configured to execute a fingerprint comparison operation to compare the first fingerprint image with a first registered image. When comparison between the first fingerprint image and the first registered image fails, the processor adjusts an image resolution of one of the first fingerprint image and the first registered image, and re-executes the fingerprint comparison operation to determine whether a current fingerprint sensing passes fingerprint verification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: Egis Technology Inc.
    Inventor: Ming Shan Chan
  • Patent number: 11444941
    Abstract: The present technology pertains to a system that authenticates the identity of a user trying to access a service. The system comprises an authentication provider configured to communicate authentication requirements to a continuous multifactor authentication device and the continuous multifactor authentication device configured to receive authentication requirements, to fuse multiple identification factors into an identification credential for a user according to the authentication requirements, and to send the authentication credential to the authentication provider. After receiving the identification credential meeting the authentication requirements, the authentication provider is configured to instruct a service provider to initiate a session.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: Alan Robert Lynn, Frank Michaud, Carlos M. Pignataro, Rajiv Asati
  • Patent number: 11438333
    Abstract: A mobile device enabled tiered data exchange via a vehicle is disclosed. A mobile device can access profile information related to a tiered-data sharing profile. The tiered-data sharing profile can associate data with a sharing tier designating security, privacy, or authorization constraints on sharing the associated data. A sharing tier can further designate obfuscation of the data as a constraint on sharing the data. The mobile device can enable access to the data subject to the constraints of the tiered-data sharing profile. In an embodiment, tiered data can be shared from the mobile device to an external service device via vehicle device. In another embodiment, tiered data can be shared from the mobile device to a service device of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignees: AT&T INIELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P., AT&T MOBILITY II LLC
    Inventors: Yehoshuva Arasavelli, Ginger Li Chien
  • Patent number: 11438378
    Abstract: The disclosed computer-implemented method for protecting against password attacks by concealing the use of honeywords in password files may include (i) receiving a login request comprising a candidate password for a user, (ii) authenticating the login request by determining whether a hash of a true password for the user stored in a honeyserver matches a hash of the candidate password, (iii) determining whether the candidate password has matches a hash of a honeyword stored in a password file when the true password hash fails to match the candidate password hash, (iv) classifying the password file as being potentially compromised when the candidate password hash matches the honeyword hash stored in the password file, and (v) performing a security action that protects against a password attack utilizing the potentially compromised password file. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: NortonLifeLock Inc.
    Inventor: Matteo Dell'Amico
  • Patent number: 11429741
    Abstract: Techniques are disclosed relating multi-factor authentication for data security. In some embodiments, a computer system receives, from a user device, a database operation request that specifies a set of query data, where the computer system supports multiple different security levels requiring different subsets of a set of authentication factors supported by a known device of a user of the user device. Various devices may determine current contextual information for the database operation request, where the contextual information indicates the set of query data. In some embodiments, the computer system compares the current contextual information with prior contextual information for database requests and then selects a security level from the different security levels. The computer system then initiates verification of a subset of authentication factors corresponding to the selected security level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: salesforce.com, inc.
    Inventors: Marla Hay, Joshua David Alexander
  • Patent number: 11429754
    Abstract: The proposed technology enables new levels of privacy while using electronics in open or public settings via the modification and censorship of a device's displayed content in response to the presence of spectators within a visible range of content displayed. In an open or public environment, users of electronic devices with any form of display can have their privacy and security compromised by any unauthorized spectators within the aforementioned visible range. To combat this problem, the proposed technology monitors the presence of users and spectators within predetermined regions and changes the content displayed appropriately such that the spectators are deterred or prevented from viewing the user's (or users) content. The system provides an added layer of security which is advantageous to users who prefer to use their devices in public locations but are afraid of being visually hacked.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: Tahsin Nabi
    Inventor: Tahsin Nabi
  • Patent number: 11416598
    Abstract: Implementations of data security technologies are disclosed. In an implementation, a plurality of feature points of a user-selected image are determined. A first plurality of interactive operations performed on at least a portion of the plurality of feature points by a user are detected during lock screen passcode set up of a mobile computing device. The first plurality of interactive operations are stored. The user-selected image is displayed on a lock screen when the mobile computing device is in a locked state. A second plurality of interactive operations on a touchscreen of the mobile computing device are detected when the mobile computing device is in the locked state, and the mobile computing device is unlocked if the second plurality of interactive operations match the first plurality of interactive operations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: Advanced New Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Xiaokai Sun
  • Patent number: 11407422
    Abstract: An operation appropriateness determination system includes an authentication apparatus that identifies an operator on a basis of a feature of the operator and that outputs information for identifying the operator, a biometric sensing apparatus that obtains biological information regarding the operator and that outputs the biological information, an operation sensing apparatus that detects a load of an operation that is being performed by the operator and that outputs operation information indicating the load of the operation, a storage device, and a signal processing apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hisashi Watanabe
  • Patent number: 11409397
    Abstract: Methods for providing a bioimpedance measurement based interface for controlling a wearable device are provided. An example wearable device includes a strap configured to be worn by a user, an outer electrode located on the outer side of the strap, an inner electrode located on the inner side of the strap and configured to be in permanent contact with the skin of the user, a bioimpedance measurement module configured to measure a differential voltage between the outer electrode and the inner electrode and determine, based on the differential voltage, a bioimpedance signal of the user, and a microcontroller configured to determine that the bioimpedance signal is within a predetermined range, in response to the determination, analyze the bioimpedance signal to determine a pattern of touching the outer electrode by the user, determine that the pattern matches a predetermined pattern, and execute an operation corresponding to the predetermined pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: AURA DEVICES, INC.
    Inventors: Stanislav Gorbunov, Igor Dorokhin, Andrey Boev
  • Patent number: 11410462
    Abstract: Provided is a processing system including a detection unit that detects that a moving body is at a specified position; an input receiving unit that receives a user input that requests to start authentication; a biological information acquisition unit that executes an acquisition process of acquiring biological information, when the user input is received in a state where the moving body is detected to be at the specified position; an authentication unit that executes an inspector authentication process on the basis of the biological information acquired in the acquisition process; and an output unit that executes a predetermined output process, when an authentication result is an authentication success.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shingo Ogawa
  • Patent number: 11392682
    Abstract: Example techniques are described for image-based user authentication. An example method includes receiving, by a host system, a passphrase comprising a plurality of words, the passphrase being provided for authentication of a user. The method further includes generating, by the host system, an image selection grid comprising a plurality of images, each word from the passphrase corresponding to one or more images from the image selection grid. The method further includes receiving, by the host system, a plurality of selected images from the image selection grid. The method further includes storing, by the host system, the selected images as a login challenge for the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Michael J. Whitney, Colm Nolan, Mark Maresh, Juan F. Vargas
  • Patent number: 11372979
    Abstract: A method for accessing a computing device including launching a first operating system having a bootloader to boot a second operating system into a random-access memory on the computing device, the first operating system and the second operating system having access to an administrator password contained in an administrator password file located in a persistent file of the computing device and booting the second operating system from the first operating system bootloader to populate a filesystem into the second operating system. Also, executing a login failsafe by the second operating system to read the administrator password contained in the administrator password file located in the persistent file and installing the administrator password file in the filesystem of the second operating system by the login failsafe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP
    Inventors: Mohamed Kahn, Shaun Wakumoto, Ted T. Nguyen
  • Patent number: 11362839
    Abstract: A security data processing device comprising a processor and memory, the processor configured to: receive a digital document comprising a primary programming requirement for programming a programmable device; determine if there is a record stored in the memory that corresponds to the digital document; receive a programming request from a programming module of a programming machine in communication with said processor, said programming request requesting the programming of the programmable device; determine if the programming request complies with the primary programming requirement in the digital document; and wherein if said programming request complies with the primary programming requirement in the digital document and if there is no record stored in the memory that corresponds to the digital document, the processor is configured to: output programming information to the programming module for programming the programmable device; and permanently store a further record, corresponding to said digital documen
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: Secure Thingz Limited
    Inventors: Andrew Bott, Timothy John Woodruff
  • Patent number: 11356460
    Abstract: In some aspects, a computing system can control access of a user computing device to a resource. The computing system can obtain an access request submitted by a user computing device. The computing system can verify permission information in the access request to determine that the access request is valid. If the access request is valid, the computing system submits an authentication request to request an authentication system to authenticate the user and obtains authentication results generated by the authentication system. The computing system further provides, based on the authentication results, an access control decision for the access request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: EQUIFAX INC.
    Inventors: Rajkumar Bondugula, Piyush Patel, Samiyuru Geethanjana Senarathne Menik Hitihami Mudiyanselage
  • Patent number: 11349652
    Abstract: A security device includes a physical unclonable function (PUF) cell array including a plurality of PUF cells, and a controller configured to control the PUF cell array to generate a security key. The controller includes a receiver configured to receive raw data from the plurality of PUF cells, a mapping table generator configured to extract stable data from the received raw data by discarding unstable data of the received raw data, and generate a mapping table based on stable PUF cells corresponding to the extracted stable data, among the plurality of PUF cells, a PUF cell controller configured to read sensing data from the stable PUF cells, based on the generated mapping table, and a bit determiner configured to generate the security key, based on the read sensing data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Sung Ung Kwak
  • Patent number: 11341227
    Abstract: A verification code generation method is performed at a computing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Zhuoming Chen, Yong Yang, Jie Zhang, Meng Chen, Xiaochen Liu, Yiwen Jia
  • Patent number: 11336798
    Abstract: A system includes an image forming apparatus, a first document server apparatus, and a key server apparatus, the image forming apparatus being configured to determine whether document data is private or public, when the document data is determined to be private, then determine a level accessible to the document data, and transmit level information indicating the level and the document data to the first document server apparatus, the first document server apparatus being configured to receive the level information and the document data from the image forming apparatus, generate a document ID for identifying the document data, store the document data in association with the document ID, transmit the document ID to the image forming apparatus, determine an accessible user ID that identifies a user accessible to the document data based on the level information, generate a public key and a private key used to encrypt the document data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: KYOCERA DOCUMENT SOLUTIONS INC.
    Inventor: Manori Dissanayake
  • Patent number: 11316703
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an ACME centralized management system and a load balancing method thereof. The system is connected with an ACME client and a plurality of certificate authorities (CAs) respectively and comprises an ACME unloading module, and a statistics module, a strategy module, a verification module and a notification module which are connected with the ACME unloading module respectively. The ACME unloading module is in communication with the ACME client and the plurality of certificate authorities (CAs). Compared with the prior art, the present invention has the advantages of avoiding frequent verification, quickly issuing certificate copies, more efficiently issuing certificates, etc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: TrustAsia Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Jianyong Hou, Jin Cheng, Qijing Chen
  • Patent number: 11308200
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for setting up a media keypad password for recalling a highly complex password is presented to solve the security problem of storing all passwords in password manager vaults due to the majority of human's inability to recall long passwords. The method for setting up a media keypad password for recalling a complex password includes users using their media source of choice as the media keypad; the users interacting with the media keypad; capturing sequence of inputs from the media keypad; capturing password setting, media data and media metadata; feeding the sequence of inputs from the media keypad along with password settings, media data and media metadata to a password generator algorithm; and displaying the password generated to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Inventors: Apaporn Strapac, Joshua Anthony Strapac
  • Patent number: 11295551
    Abstract: Systems and methods pertaining to iris recognition are disclosed. A system is disclosed comprising an iris imager configured to acquire an iris image, and a processor configured to receive a first plurality of iris images from the iris imager, generate a first plurality of iris codes corresponding to the first plurality of iris images, generate a distribution metric corresponding to an iris cell location, generate a first composite iris code using the distribution metric, and generate a first match value using the first composite iris code and a first stored iris code.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: Magic Leap, Inc.
    Inventor: Adrian Kaehler
  • Patent number: 11290437
    Abstract: Disclosed are techniques for securing electronic control units (ECUs) in a vehicle. A security platform for a vehicle includes a key distribution center (KDC) for the vehicle. The KDC is configured to verify that a digital certificate associated with a first electronic control unit (ECU) on the vehicle is a valid certificate, where the digital certificate indicates a first security level of the first ECU. The KDC is configured to generate, based on the first security level of the first ECU, one or more security keys for secure communication between the first ECU and a set of ECUs on the vehicle, and provision the one or more security keys to the first ECU and the set of ECUs. In some embodiments, the KDC uses the provisioned keys to authenticate each ECU when the vehicle is powered up.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: Beijing Voyager Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jiang Zhang, Xiaoyong Yi, Qi Chen, Yu Wang, Fengmin Gong
  • Patent number: 11281809
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a security display method, a security display device, and a security terminal. The security display method includes the following. In a security display control state, first information to be displayed currently is obtained. It is determined whether the first information to be displayed includes a specified identifier. In response to the first information to be displayed includes the specified identifier, the security processing information is obtained by filtering the first information to be displayed based on the specified identifier, and the security processing information is securely processed. The security processing information is displayed at a security display address. The security display address is a preset fixed display address. Or, a security identifier is added to the security processing information to obtain security display information and the security display information is displayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: Tendyron Corporation
    Inventor: Dongsheng Li
  • Patent number: 11281556
    Abstract: A resource management apparatus includes a memory and a processor coupled to the memory. The processor is configured to receive a usage of a target virtual machine provided to a user and a request benchmark score requested by the user. The processor is configured to determine first resources to be used for constructing the target virtual machine based on the received usage and request benchmark score. The processor is configured to construct a first virtual machine using the first resources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventor: Mikio Morita
  • Patent number: 11263348
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method includes receiving permission data from an application server. The permission data is for an account to access a software application of a plurality of software applications, and the application server is configured to provide the software application. Responsive to receiving the permission data from the application server, storing the permission data in a native database. Receiving a request to grant the account access to the software application. Determining whether the database stores the permission data for the account to access the software application. In response to determining that the database stores the permission data, granting access to the account to access the software application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignees: ATLASSIAN PTY LTD., ATLASSIAN INC.
    Inventors: Jeffrey Lawrence Farber, Sidney Gee-Lake Shek, Pramod Shashidhara, Deepak Kulkarni, Jonathan Paul Gilbert
  • Patent number: 11265317
    Abstract: A computing device detects that another computing device has connected to a network. The computing device determines whether the other computing device is valid and whether the computing device is being utilized for one or more suspicious activities. Based on determining that the other computing device is being utilized for one or more suspicious activities, the computing device determines a location of the other computing device, determines whether a user associated with the other computing device can be identified, and based on determining that the user associated with the other computing device cannot be identified, disables the other computing device, and transmits an alert to security personnel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: KYNDRYL, INC.
    Inventors: Baiju D. Mandalia, Tung OuYang
  • Patent number: 11263027
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a method for plugin loading. The method includes obtaining an identifier of a plugin component of a plugin from a threading module, recording the identifier of the plugin component, and replacing the identifier of the plugin component with an identifier of a host component of an application program. The method also includes sending the identifier of the host component to a threading module, to perform system permission verification and receiving runnable notification information when passing the verification. The method further includes in response to the received runnable notification information, replacing the identifier of the host component with the identifier of the plugin component according to the recorded identifier of the plugin component; and sending the identifier of the plugin component to the threading module, to load the plugin. The present invention further discloses an apparatus and a storage medium for plugin loading.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventor: Shidong Sheng
  • Patent number: 11252567
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture are disclosed to detect attacks in V2X networks. An example apparatus includes a challenge handler to (a) transmit a first challenge packet to a first vehicle to request a transmission of a first response, (b) instruct a second challenge packet to be transmitted to a second vehicle to request a transmission of a second response, (c) increment a first counter when the first response is not obtained, (d) increment a second counter when the second response is not obtained, and (e) after repeating (a)-(d), determine that the first and second vehicles are phantom vehicles associated with an attacker with a half-duplex radio when at least one of the first or second counters satisfy a threshold, and a network interface to instruct a third vehicle associated with the V2X network to ignore future messages from the phantom vehicles based on the determination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Liuyang Lily Yang, Debabani Choudhury, Sridhar Sharma, Kathiravetpillai Sivanesan, Justin Gottschlich, Zheng Zhang, Yair Yona, Xiruo Liu, Moreno Ambrosin, Kuilin Clark Chen
  • Patent number: 11240539
    Abstract: Technologies are provided for reporting engaged impressions of directed content. Some embodiments include a computing device that can initiate a screensaver session within a content streaming service. The computing device also can cause presentation of a directed content asset on a display device functionally coupled to the computing device. The computing device can then update a queue to add a record of an impression of the directed content asset, where the queue is retained in a memory device of the computing device. The computing device can receive a signal indicative of user activity. The computing device can determine, using the queue, that the impression of the directed content asset occurred within a defined time interval relative to a time that the user activity occurred. The computing device can then send data identifying the directed content asset.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Salil Joshi, Ala Kallel, Yi Yao, Garrett Alan Dargan
  • Patent number: 11227043
    Abstract: A device including an unlocking system includes a sensing device to gather data of a physical movement of a user's body or part as representing an unlocking action. The unlocking system includes a display module, a password setting module, an identifying module, a determining module, and an unlocking module. The display module displays an unlock interface on a display screen which itself can view the user's eyes. The password setting module has a preset unlocking password and the movement can be determined as representing an unlocking action. The correctness of such unlocking action as a password can be determined by the determining module. The unlocking module can unlock all or some functions of the electronic device when the password offered is found correct. Different unlock interfaces can be displayed depending on different geographical locations. An electronic device and a unlocking method are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: Chiun Mai Communication Systems, Inc.
    Inventor: Cheng-Yueh Chung
  • Patent number: 11216068
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to the field of brainwave technology, and provides a detection device and a detection method. The detection device includes: a brainwave acquisition circuit configured to collect a brainwave signal of a user in the case that a distance between the user and a to-be-detected object is smaller than a threshold; and a processing circuit configured to process the collected brainwave signal to acquire brainwave information, and acquire a detection result of the to-be-detected object in accordance with the brainwave information. The brainwave information includes at least one of olfactory information and gustatory information of the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Wenchu Dong
  • Patent number: 11216546
    Abstract: The present invention generally relates to a method for authenticating a user of an electronic device comprising a fingerprint sensor. The method comprises acquiring a sequence of verification images. Estimating, based on the images a first and a second verification force value indicative of a force applied by the object on the fingerprint sensor when the verification images were acquired. A verification image representation and a verification force value forms a verification template for each of the first and second images and forces. Matching the first and second verification template with at least one of a plurality of stored fingerprint enrolment templates in a respective first and second matching step. When the first and second matching steps each results in a positive match between the respective verification template and a respective one of the plurality of stored fingerprint enrolment templates, providing a signal indicating successful authentication of the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: FINGERPRINT CARDS ANACATUM IP AB
    Inventors: Markus Andersson, Fredrik Norrman, Erik Montnémery
  • Patent number: 11210376
    Abstract: Provided is a disclosure for user authentication using biometric features such as detection of micro-expressions of a user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Inventor: Gerard Dirk Smits
  • Patent number: 11202201
    Abstract: A subscriber identity module (eUICC), comprises profiles for the utilization of a mobile terminal that include at least a first profile and at least a second profile, of which the second profile (Pr1, Pr2) is devised as an active profile. The first profile is designed as a root profile (PrR) which in a normal state of the subscriber identity module is in an inactive state, and which is devised to be activated in response to an authentication command (AUTHENTICATE) received at the subscriber identity module. The authentication command is specially parameterized for the root profile (PrR) with a specific root value of the network parameter (P2) to be activated during a change-over period. The initially active second profile (Pr1, Pr2) is deactivated during the change-over period. After the end of the change-over period, the first profile (PrR) is again deactivated and the second profile (Pr1, Pr2) is again activated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignee: GIESECKE+DEVRIENT MOBILE SECURITY GMBH
    Inventors: Ulrich Huber, Nils Nitsch
  • Patent number: 11176231
    Abstract: The disclosed embodiments relate to a system that authenticates and/or identifies a user of an electronic device based on passive factors, which do not require conscious user actions. During operation of the system, in response to detecting a trigger event, the system collects sensor data from one or more sensors in the electronic device. Next, the system extracts a feature vector from the sensor data. The system then analyzes the feature vector to authenticate and/or identify the user, wherein the feature vector is analyzed using a model trained with sensor data previously obtained from the electronic device while the user was operating the electronic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: Payfone, Inc.
    Inventors: John Whaley, Kurt W. Somerville
  • Patent number: 11176258
    Abstract: A content delivery system (100) comprises a trusted holder of profile data (200) arranged to store information concerning a conscious entity, a content delivery requirement entity (210), a content intermediary entity (226); and a source of content (232). The trusted holder of profile data (200) is arranged to issue (230) profile reference data to the content delivery requirement entity in response to a request (222) therefrom, and to communicate (224) the profile reference data and at least part of the stored information concerning the conscious entity to the content intermediary entity (226), the request for content provision (222) being capable of identifying the conscious entity to the trusted holder of profile data. The content intermediary entity (226) is arranged to source, when in use, relevant content from the source of content (232) using the at least part of the stored information concerning the conscious entity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: Gaiasoft IP Limited
    Inventor: Clive Morel Fourman
  • Patent number: 11163864
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided in this disclosure for operating an electronic device that includes a user interface, a microphone, and an electronic processor. The microphone captures an audio stream and the electronic processor analyzes the audio stream to identify spoken words captured by the microphone. The electronic processor detects a violation of a user assistance restriction for the current functional operation of the electronic device based at least in part on a correlation between one or more of the identified spoken words captured by the microphone and a current functional operation of the electronic device involving a manual text entry through the user interface of the electronic device. The electronic processor adjusts one or more operations of the electronic device in response to detecting the violation of the user assistance restriction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: MOTOROLA SOLUTIONS, INC.
    Inventors: Bing Qin Lim, Boon Kheng Hooi, Wai Mun Lee, Mun Yew Tham
  • Patent number: 11159923
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer storage media for a wearable device are presented. The wearable device includes a wearable housing and a transceiver attached to the wearable housing and configured to receive a first data item. The first data item is contact information or an event identifier. The transceiver is further configured to transmit a second data item. The second data item is contact information. The transceiver has an effective range of less than one meter. The transceiver is able to receive the first data item and transmit the second data item in less than three seconds. The wearable device also includes a memory configured to store the first data item and the second data item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: MCLEAR & CO.
    Inventor: Joseph Nicholi Prencipe
  • Patent number: 11153461
    Abstract: The present image processing apparatus stores setting information for whether to force setting of authentication information for each user. Furthermore, upon accepting a login request from a user, in a case where the stored setting information indicates forcing setting of authentication information, the image processing apparatus displays on a display unit a setting screen for setting authentication information to allow the user to set authentication information. In addition, the image processing apparatus executes login processing in accordance with a setting status of authentication information for the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Tetsuya Yamada
  • Patent number: 11126879
    Abstract: Technology described herein includes a method that includes obtaining a set of color-coded sequences, each of which includes a sequence of colors. Each color-coded sequence has auto-correlation properties characterized by a merit factor larger than a first predetermined threshold, and cross-correlation properties among the color-coded sequences characterized by a demerit factor lower than a second predetermined threshold. A color-coded sequence is randomly selected from the set of color-coded sequences. A subject is illuminated in accordance with the sequence of colors in the selected color-coded sequence. A sequence of images of the subject are captured, and are temporally synchronized with illumination by the color-coded sequence. A filtered response image is generated from the sequence of images by a matched filtering process. Based on the filtered response image, it is determined that the subject is an alternative representation of a live person. In response, access to a secure system is prevented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: EyeVerify, Inc.
    Inventors: Spandana Vemulapalli, David Hirvonen