Credential Patents (Class 726/5)
  • Patent number: 11374764
    Abstract: A request for a transaction between a client system and a server system may be processed. The transaction may be associated with transmission of data between the client system and the server system. The data may be encrypted using a transient encryption key to form encrypted data. The transient encryption key may be a synced-clock random number configured to automatically change when a designated time interval elapses. The encrypted data may be transmitted between the client system and the server system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: salesforce.com, Inc.
    Inventors: Prashanth Kannan, Prabhjot Singh
  • Patent number: 11374999
    Abstract: According to a yet further aspect of the embodiments of the present invention a server 1020 configured to bind a device application to a web service is provided. The server comprises WebRTC functionality. The server is configured to receive a request for the web service from the device application, wherein communication between the server and the device application is done via https and WebRTC and the device application is configured to generate WebRTC credentials comprising a private key, certificate of the private key and a fingerprint of the certificate. The server is configured to receive the fingerprint and fingerprint generation algorithm of the certificate, store the fingerprint and fingerprint generation algorithm and associating the fingerprint with the device application, and use DTLS, providing the certificate of the device application, in combination with the stored fingerprint to identify the device application to bind the device application to the web service.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Stefan Håkansson, Göran Eriksson, Magnus Westerlund
  • Patent number: 11373218
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method may be provided for identifying a user device. An identification server in communication with the user device may receive a request from a browser of the user device to access, from a destination uniform resource locator (URL), an asset from the identification server. The request from the browser may be received from a website server. The asset is configured to be presented on a webpage hosted by the website server. The request from the browser may be modified to associate a new identity attribute of the user device with the request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: Capital One Services, LLC
    Inventors: David Benko, Matthew Hogan
  • Patent number: 11363018
    Abstract: A proxy server enforces security rules on data accesses. Network traffic between a client application and a cloud application is routed to the proxy. The proxy tags data that is stored in the cloud applications in order to track the data. When a data request is received by the proxy, the proxy uses a set of rules to decide whether the requesting user is allowed access to the data from the cloud application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: Bitglass, LLC
    Inventors: Anurag Kahol, Anoop Kumar Bhattacharjya, Balas Natarajan Kausik
  • Patent number: 11356429
    Abstract: There is provided a method and system for securely coupling and transferring data between devices. In a preferred embodiment, the devices may comprise two devices, a transferring device and a receiving device, and both devices are mobile devices. Embodiments of the present invention allow the wireless transfer of data such as contacts, photo images, video files, or other data from one device to another device, without need for special hardware or cabling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: BLANCCO TECHNOLOGY GROUP IP OY
    Inventors: William Fitzgerald, Dan Gustafsson, Donal O'Shaughnessy, Peter Bermingham
  • Patent number: 11354396
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer readable media for authenticating to a computer system. In some examples, a method includes receiving a request from a user device for authentication, the request specifying a username. The method includes determining grid information associated with the username by accessing a repository of grid information for usernames, the grid information specifying a color set. The method includes sending the color set to the user device, causing the user device to display a grid of colored tiles, each colored tile having a color specified by the color set. The method includes receiving a sequence of tile selections from the user device, each tile selection specifying a user selection of one of the colored tiles. The method includes granting or rejecting the request for authentication based on the sequence of tile selections and the grid information associated with the username.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University
    Inventors: Mohd Anwar, Paul Biocco
  • Patent number: 11356481
    Abstract: A computer system is provided. The computer system includes a memory and at least one processor coupled to the memory and configured to identify a first domain name associated with a website that served a login form to a web browser. The at least one processor is further configured to identify a one-time password (OTP) entry request served from the website in response to transmitting user credentials to the website. The at least one processor is further configured to identify a second domain name associated with an OTP server that provided an OTP. The at least one processor is further configured to perform a security action in response to determining that the first domain name differs from the second domain name. The security action may include blocking a response to the OTP request from the website, providing a warning, and/or obtaining confirmation for the response to the OTP entry request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: Citrix Systems, Inc.
    Inventor: Manbinder Pal Singh
  • Patent number: 11349926
    Abstract: A system includes Internet of things (IOT) devices that are paired with corresponding edge computers. Smart contracts are generated for edge computers, and deployed in a blockchain. Upon receipt of a message, a smart contract compares a sender of the message to a designated owner of the smart contract. The smart contract has a privilege checker that allows a message from the owner of the smart contract to initiate execution of a function that modifies a variable of the smart contract, but prevents messages from non-owners from initiating execution of the function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: Trend Micro Incorporated
    Inventors: Tai-An Wang, Liang-Chih Chen, Yu-Shu Chen, Ting-Yin Yen
  • Patent number: 11349829
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for use in verifying network identities. One exemplary method includes receiving, at a computing device, data associated with multiple user devices of a user and relating to one or more identity attributes of the user. The method then includes, in response to a request for authentication of the user, generating an aggregate score based on multiple of a reliability sub score, a length of relationship sub score, and a historical consistency sub score for each of the multiple user devices taking into account at least some of the received data. The aggregate score may then be transmitted to a relying party in response to the request, thereby permitting the relying party to authenticate the user based at least in part on the aggregate score.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: MASTERCARD INTERNATIONAL INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Marek Kurylko, Eugene Reda, Skyler Fox
  • Patent number: 11347734
    Abstract: A database system processes database queries that process external tables representing data obtained from an external systems. The database system generates an execution plan to execute the database query. The database system sends a request for data of the external table to an external system. The request provides connection information to the external system. The external system sends a request to connect to the database system and provides data of the external table as a data stream. If the database system reaches an operator that processes the data of the external table, the database system waits for data from the external system. The database system processes the database query using the data of the data stream. The database system provides the result of the database query to a requestor, for example, a client device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: ACTIAN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Gilein de Nijs, Willemina Konynenberg
  • Patent number: 11343232
    Abstract: A method including actions of pairing with a mobile device and receiving a user name, a password encrypted with a connector password key, and a public key of the mobile device. Additional actions include providing the password encrypted with the connector password key, receiving the password in a decrypted form, obtaining a pairing key, encrypting the pairing key using the public key, encrypting the password with a local password key, providing the pairing key encrypted using the public key and the password encrypted with the local password key, disconnecting from the mobile device, after disconnecting form the mobile device, reconnecting with mobile device, providing a workstation identification, receiving the user name and the password encrypted with the local password key, decrypting the password encrypted with the local password key, and logging in the user using the user name and the password decrypted with the local password key.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: MicroStrategy Incorporated
    Inventors: John Gehret, Gary Gabriel, Yong Qiao, Ali Alavi, Xiaochen Du
  • Patent number: 11343256
    Abstract: A method for controlling third-party access of a protected resource is disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: The Toronto-Dominion Bank
    Inventors: Milos Dunjic, David Samuel Tax, Gregory Albert Kliewer
  • Patent number: 11334713
    Abstract: Identifier dependent operation processing of packet based data communication is provided. A natural language processor component can parse an input audio signal to identify a request and a trigger keyword. A content selector component can select, based on the request or trigger keyword, a content item. A link generation component can determine whether the client computing device has an account or a record in a database associated with the service provider device. In the absence of the record or account, the link generation device generates and sends a virtual identifier to the service provider device with instructions to generate an account in the database using the virtual identifier. Once the account is created, the service provider device can communicate with the client computing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Gaurav Bhaya, Robert James Stets, Jr.
  • Patent number: 11328543
    Abstract: It is provided a method for controlling access to an access object. The method is performed in an electronic key device and comprises the steps of: communicating with an access control device to obtain an identity of the access control device; sending an access request to a server, the access request comprising an identity of the electronic key device and the identity of the access control device; receiving a response from the server, the response comprising a key delegation to the electronic key device; and sending a grant access request to the access control device, the grant access request comprising the key delegation, to allow the access control device to evaluate whether to grant access to the access object based on a plurality of delegations comprising a sequence of delegations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: ASSA ABLOY AB
    Inventors: Frans Lundberg, Peter Stenlund
  • Patent number: 11328040
    Abstract: A method for monitoring access to a user account comprises receiving a user account login status from a target service in response to a user login request, comparing the user account login status with an expected status value at a user apparatus, and on the basis of the comparison, performing at least one of: synchronising the status value at the user apparatus with the user account login status from the target service, and executing a user login update process at the user apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Gurchetan Grewal, David Plaquin
  • Patent number: 11328317
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for incentivizing user behavior including identifying an action for a user to perform, providing the number of credits that can be earned by the user for performing the action, verifying that the user has carried out the action and awarding the credits to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: Capital One Services, LLC
    Inventors: Abdelkader M'Hamed Benkreira, Michael Mossoba, Joshua Edwards
  • Patent number: 11323283
    Abstract: Methods for commissioning a domestic appliance, as provided herein, may include the transmission and receiving of signals between the domestic appliance, a previously-commissioned appliance, a remote user-interface device, and a remote server such that a network credential for a local wireless network is transmitted from the previously-commissioned appliance to the domestic appliance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: Haier US Appliance Solutions, Inc.
    Inventor: Chad Michael Helms
  • Patent number: 11321444
    Abstract: Disclosed is an authentication management system including a custom credential provider installed on a computing device to support OS account authentication through an alternate authentication method that replaces an OS account authentication method supported by an operating system of the computing device, and an authentication management server communicably connected to the custom credential provider via a communication network to perform user authentication related to a user who attempts to OS account authentication using the alternate authentication information when the OS account authentication based on the alternate authentication information used in the alternate authentication method is attempted and transfer, to the custom credential provider, account authentication information necessary to perform OS account authentication according to the OS account authentication method supporting by the operating system or a seed value that is based on generation of the account authentication information when the
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: eStorm Co., LTD.
    Inventor: Jong Hyun Woo
  • Patent number: 11321195
    Abstract: Hypervisor-independent reference copies of virtual machine payload data based on block-level pseudo-mount infrastructure and techniques are generated and stored in an illustrative data storage management system. An illustrative hypervisor-independent reference copy comprises one or more virtual-machine payload data files that originated from a first virtual machine. The hypervisor-independent virtual-machine-payload reference copy is governed by a distinct reference copy policy that controls retention, storage, tiering, scheduling, etc. for the reference copy, independently of how the illustrative system treats other virtual machine payload data files originating from the same virtual machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: Commvault Systems, Inc.
    Inventor: Vinit Dilip Dhatrak
  • Patent number: 11323427
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for mixed-mode cloud/on-premise secure communication. The method includes commissioning an on-premise device, and connecting to web address via a client web browser using a name and a log in credential of a user; and verifying a login credential of a user at a cloud-based service and establishing communication with the client web browser if the login credential is authenticated, then permitting communication between the client web browser and the cloud based service.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: CARRIER CORPORATION
    Inventor: Maxim Rydkin
  • Patent number: 11321031
    Abstract: A cloud-based server and a port monitor on a device provide authentication of a user to access print jobs on the server. An application may print or perform other operations from the cloud-based server to a printing device. The port monitor uploads data for a document to the cloud-based server. Once the data for the document is uploaded, a claim code is generated by the cloud-based server. The port monitor receives the claim code. The port monitor initiates the launch of a browser having a uniform resource locator (URL) address for the server along with the claim code. The user is authenticated using a login page and the claim code associated to the user to allow access to the document on the server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: KYOCERA DOCUMENT SOLUTIONS INC.
    Inventors: Arthur Alacar, Michael Martin
  • Patent number: 11314568
    Abstract: This application relates to a message processing method and apparatus, a storage medium, and a computer device. The method includes: receiving a session message associated with an interactive session of a social application; while rendering the session message in a session interface corresponding to the interactive session of the social application: identifying a child application identifier in the session message; invoking plug-in code corresponding to the child application identifier in the social application; obtaining, from the social application, shared data corresponding to the child application identifier using the plug-in code; and dynamically presenting the shared data in the session message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Hao Hu, Jisheng Huang, Haojun Hu, Chao Lin
  • Patent number: 11317286
    Abstract: According to one aspect disclosed herein, a provider device can receive, from a requester device, a network access request requesting, on behalf of the requester device, access to a Wi-Fi network associated with a network provider and provided, at least in part, by a network device. In response, the provider device can prompt the network provider to accept or deny the requester device access to the Wi-Fi network. The provider device can receive input indicating that the network provider accepts the network access request, and in response to the input, can create a network access package that includes a secure network access configuration to be utilized by the network device to establish, at least in part, a secure connection with the requester device to provide the requester device access to the Wi-Fi. The provider device can encrypt the network access package to create an encrypted network access package.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Roque Rios, III, Luis Ramos, James Gordon Beattie, Jr.
  • Patent number: 11310221
    Abstract: The invention relates to alternate user communication routing for a one-time credential. When a user is determined to be an unauthorized user, the unauthorized user may be provided with an alternative one-time credential (e.g., one-time password, or the like) in response to the user trying to take an action (e.g., to access the organization systems in order to access information). When the unauthorized user tries to utilize the alternative one-time credential, the organization may identify the user as unauthorized and determine how to respond to the unauthorized user. In addition to the alternative one-time credential, one or more additional alternate treatments may be presented to the unauthorized user in order to identify, track, and/or prevent access by the unauthorized user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Dharmender Kumar Satija, Eren Kursun, Andrew DongHo Kim, Scott Anderson Sims, Craig D. Widmann
  • Patent number: 11308198
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for blockchain-based credential vault system (CVS). In one novel aspect, the CVS identifies a set of credential of a trustor, verifies each credential, and stores the verified credentials to a CVS blockchain database such that the authorized beneficiary can obtain the trustor credentials from the CVS. In one embodiment, the CVS authenticates a trustor request from a trustor, wherein a trustor record in the CVS is uniquely identified by a trustor identification in a blockchain-based database of the CVS, processes submission from the authenticated trustor to generate a set of canonical credentials using a recurrent neural network (RNN) model, performs credential verification for each generated canonical credential in the authenticated trustor submission, and appends each verified canonical credential to the trustor record in the blockchain-based database of the CVS.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: Lucas GC Limited
    Inventors: Wang-Chan Wong, Howard Lee
  • Patent number: 11308098
    Abstract: A system and method for translating and matching attributes in data records that describe travel items is provided. In an embodiment, a plurality of records is received from a plurality of data sources. Record parsing logic is used divide strings in the records into individual words and match single words in the plurality of records to attributes. Using the matched attributes, record comparison logic creates a confidence score that describes the likelihood that two records describe the same listing or inventory item. If the confidence score exceeds a given threshold, the records are determined to match. A consolidated record is then created from the two matched records.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: priceline.com LLC
    Inventors: Amit Poddar, Michael Diliberto, John Caine, Jim Chen, Will Homes, Nasreen Ali, Murali Gadde, Ian Merritt, Ronald Henderson, Christine Wong
  • Patent number: 11308112
    Abstract: An interactive library system comprised of a Processing Engine phase, a Presentation Engine phase, a Content Management phase, and a Content Editing/Reading pages phase, which work together in real time. The system, by providing a set of structures within an overarching database, provides the flexibility to build any data set (library) within an overarching data schema. The system proactively presents information to a user in real time as the system constantly scans to finds library matches to user text, saving the user from having to actively search and confirm information and greatly enhancing data handling capability. Further, each user has the flexibility to create a library most relevant to a user's particular position and needs, and select information for retrieval most useful to them.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Inventor: Micah Mossman
  • Patent number: 11301549
    Abstract: A method for changing a security credential, such as a password, for secure user authentication with respect to user access to an application is provided. The method includes: receiving, from a vault that is configured to periodically generate and change a credential for accessing the application, a current credential and a first future credential that is designated as a next credential; transmitting, to a user that has access to the vault, the current credential; when a first interval that corresponds to a periodicity of a changing of the credential elapses, receiving, from the vault, a message indicating that the current credential has expired and that the next credential has been redesignated as the current credential, and providing a newly designated next credential, and transmitting, to the user, a message indicating that the previous current credential has expired and providing the redesignated current credential.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A.
    Inventor: Adrian Asher
  • Patent number: 11303635
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are system, method, and apparatus for assisted third-party password authentication. The method performed at a client device includes creating a secure connection from an inline frame associated with a first application on the client device to an authorization server for accessing a second application. The method includes identifying, by the inline frame, one or more events that represent inputs for a user authorization credential, and proxying, by the inline frame, the identified one or more events to the authorization server using the secure connection. The method includes receiving an authorization code from the authorization server in response to the proxying. The method includes redirecting, by the inline frame, the authorization code to the application on the client device. The method includes transmitting, from the client device to the authorization server, the authorization code to receive an access token for accessing the second application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: Capital One Services, LLC
    Inventors: David Benko, Michael Chen
  • Patent number: 11301558
    Abstract: A method includes with a computing system, receiving an attribute within a managed configuration model, the attribute referencing a credential store and associated with a resource, with the computing system, in response to determining that the attribute includes both an alias and a clear-text password, determining whether there is a matching entry within the credential store, and in response to determining that the credential store does not contain a matching entry: creating a new entry for the credential store, wherein the new entry includes the clear-text password and is uniquely identifiable using the alias, and removing the clear-text password from the managed configuration model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: RED HAT INC.
    Inventors: Darran Andrew Lofthouse, Farah Juma
  • Patent number: 11303628
    Abstract: The present disclosure pertains to validation of runtime objects for a software deployment using a certificate. After creating the runtime objects during a build process, a certificate may be generated based on the runtime objects. The certificate may include a fingerprint of the runtime objects that may be used before deployment to determine whether the runtime objects have been changed. Before deployment, the runtime objects and the certificate may be obtained and the certificate may be validated. In addition, the runtime objects may be validated using the fingerprint included in the certificate. For instance, the fingerprint may be re-generating based on the runtime objects for deployment. The runtime objects may be validated by comparing the re-generated fingerprint to the fingerprint in the certificate. The runtime objects may be deployed if the certificate and the runtime objects are valid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: SAP SE
    Inventor: Christian Martick
  • Patent number: 11303625
    Abstract: An industrial automation device with a token to be used as authentication information in information exchange between a first cloud service and the industrial automation device, a mobile device is connected to the industrial automation device and to a cloud service that is the first cloud service or a second cloud service. After authenticating the user of the mobile device to the cloud service, a token is generated by the cloud service to the first cloud service, and forwarded via the mobile device to the industrial automation device. If the cloud service that generated the token is the second cloud service, the token is forwarded via the mobile device, after the mobile has been authenticated in the first cloud service, the first cloud service. Thereafter the industrial automation device and the first cloud service may communicate directly with each other using the token for authentication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: ABB Schweiz AG
    Inventors: Zhongliang Hu, Toni Kuikka, Mikko Kohvakka
  • Patent number: 11303622
    Abstract: An embodiment method includes: obtaining, by a first key management system, a shared key of a first network element, where the shared key of the first network element is generated according to a key parameter obtained after the first network element performs authentication or a root key of the first network element; obtaining a service key, where the service key is used to perform encryption and/or integrity protection on communication data in a first service between the first network element and a second network element; performing encryption and/or integrity protection on the service key by using the shared key of the first network element, to generate a first security protection parameter; and sending the first security protection parameter to the first network element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Lu Gan, Bo Zhang
  • Patent number: 11297111
    Abstract: The present disclosure describes methods and systems for establishing a Session Initiation Protocol Session. One method includes transmitting a first message requesting authentication configuration information; in response to the first message, receiving a second message that includes the authentication configuration information; transmitting a third message that includes authentication information based upon the received authentication configuration information; receiving an authentication challenge request that is formatted according to the second protocol; and in response to receiving the authentication challenge request, transmitting an authentication response to the second network node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: Adrian Buckley, Andrew Michael Allen, Michael Eoin Buckley
  • Patent number: 11295001
    Abstract: A symbol input method performed by a symbol input device having a display unit, a selector, and a determiner includes: displaying, by the display unit, a correspondence table indicating correspondences between input target symbols and selection target symbols and indicating that each of the input target symbols corresponds to one or more selection target symbols; ending the displaying by the display unit; prompting, by the selector, after the ending, a user to select one of the selection target symbols included in the displayed correspondence table; and determining, by the determiner, one input target symbol as a symbol to be input. The input target symbol is indicated in the displayed correspondence table and corresponds to the selection target symbol selected by the user in the prompting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Keiyou Shu, Keijiroh Nagano, Keiji Mori, Hidekazu Tanaka, Yoshiyuki Furuya
  • Patent number: 11297052
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure involve a system comprising a computer-readable storage medium storing a program and method for password protecting selected message content. The program and method provide for receiving selection of a content item shared between a first user and a second user, in association with a messaging application; receiving input indicating that access to the content item requires user authentication by the first user or the second user; and providing for access to the content item based on the user selection and the input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Jeremy Voss, Christie Marie Heikkinen, Daniel Rakhamimov, Laurent Desserrey, Edward Koai
  • Patent number: 11297498
    Abstract: Briefly, in accordance with one embodiment, a method and/or system for mobile identity authentication is disclosed. For example, mobile identity authentication may be employed in a variety of situations, including purchases, financial transactions, granted access to accounts, granting access to content, etc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: Prove Identity, Inc.
    Inventors: Kristin Noelle McClement, Matthew Emmett Brown, Michael Colten Brody, Christopher Cunningham
  • Patent number: 11290459
    Abstract: Granting guest devices access to a network using out-of-band authorization including receiving, over an out-of-band network, a password for an in-band network from a guest device, wherein the password is generated on the guest device; storing the password received over the out-of-band network as an authorized password for the in-band network; receiving, from the guest device using an in-band protocol, a request to join the in-band network, wherein the request to join the in-band network comprises the password previously received from the guest device over the out-of-band network; and granting the guest device access to the in-band network based on a determination that the password received in the request to join the in-band network matches the password previously received from the guest device over the out-of-band network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: Lenovo Enterprise Solutions (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Matthew R. Alcorn, James G. McLean, Dharmesh N. Topiwala
  • Patent number: 11283685
    Abstract: A shared storage system that is optimized for post-production workflows that use NLEs such as Final Cut Pro X, DaVinci Resolve, Premiere and Avid is disclosed. Further, shared storage systems comprising workstations and shared storage systems, such as NAS devices, are disclosed that optimize workstation settings based on a database of optimal configuration settings to provide optimal bandwidth, minimal latency and stable performance for digital content creation/editing workflows that use file exchange between the workstation and the shared storage system. Novel methods and systems for storage systems are disclosed that configure and expose share drives in novel ways to facilitate video editing, audio editing and compo siting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Inventors: Samuel A. Mestman, Eric Altman, Gergana Angelova, Joshua Minney, Kevin Bailey, Dashel Scarborough, Jacob Schwartz
  • Patent number: 11282062
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media configured according to this disclosure provide money services on a money services device such as a kiosk device, tablet device, mobile device, virtual reality device, mixed reality device and the like. An application runs on the money services device and communicates with remote services to perform profile management functions such as facilitating account log-in and allowing users to log-in using mobile messaging. Other services such as verifying the user's ID via an account management service may also be provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: Walmart Apollo, LLC
    Inventors: Mark Matthews, Daniel Eckert, Sid Shake, Charles Lobo
  • Patent number: 11272371
    Abstract: This application provides an unmanned aerial vehicle authentication method and an apparatus. The method includes: sending, by a communications device after determining that a type of a terminal is a UAV, authentication information of the terminal to an authentication server, so that the authentication server can perform authentication on the terminal based on the authentication information of the terminal, and therefore, the authentication server completes authentication on the terminal. In addition, the unmanned aerial vehicle is allowed to fly only after authentication on the terminal succeeds. Therefore, flight security of the unmanned aerial vehicle can be improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Haoren Zhu, Zhixian Xiang, Gang Li, Cuili Ge
  • Patent number: 11270173
    Abstract: According to examples, an apparatus may include a processor that may receive a request from a first device for an authentication token for access to a service, determine whether the first device is authorized to receive the authentication token for access to the service, and based on a determination that the first device is authorized to receive the authentication token for access to the service, generate a machine-readable code including the authentication token that a second device is to use for access to the service by the second device. The processor may also send the generated machine-readable code to the first device. The first device may display the machine-readable code and the second device may use a captured image of the machine-readable code to establish an authenticated session to the service on the second device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Rachel Anne Brown Teller, Kristina K. Hotz, Tarek B. Kamel, Neelam Anuradha Reddy, Peter M. Tsang, James Shang Kai Chou
  • Patent number: 11269839
    Abstract: An authenticated modular map library may support partial state for a key-value store. A key-value store may be created that is organized as a tree data structure that divides items into pages. Features to access the key-value store may also be specified when the key-value store is created. A portion of the key-value store may be sent to a participant of a blockchain network, which may attempt to access an item to be found in a page in the key-value store according to the specified features. If the page is not included in the portion, the page may be requested from another participant, received, and verified before being used to complete the attempted access of the item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: Oracle International Corporation
    Inventors: Victor Cacciari Miraldo, Harold Carr, Maurice P. Herlihy, Alex Kogan, Mark Sean Moir
  • Patent number: 11271951
    Abstract: Upon receiving malware detection rules that are to be identified with respect to an input traffic stream, a sequence of state definitions are generated for each of the rules. The state definitions for each rule correspond to respective segments of the rule and specify conditions under which a state machine is to transition between search states corresponding to those segments, at least one of the segments corresponding to multiple characters within the input traffic stream. A state machine transitions between search states corresponding to one or more of the rules in accordance with contents of the input traffic stream and the conditions specified by the sequence of state definitions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: Redberry Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Sandeep Khanna, Varadarajan Srinivasan, Madhavan Bakthavatchalam
  • Patent number: 11263699
    Abstract: Systems and methods can leverage images of remotely captured items to extract information, populate forms, authenticate users, and perform other actions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: United Services Automobile Association (USAA)
    Inventors: Todd Patrick Walker, Christopher Maurice Norman, Michael Kyne
  • Patent number: 11265167
    Abstract: A method is performed at a security device. The method includes establishing a network connection with a client system. After establishing the network connection, the security device receives a first packet from the client system. The first packet includes an identifier, a first counter value, and a first one-time password hash generated by the client system. Based on the identifier received, the security device retrieves from a trusted data store the seed and a second counter value. If the first counter value is larger than the second counter value, the security device generates a second one-time password hash based on the identifier, the first counter value, and the seed. In accordance with a determination that the first and second one-time password hashes match, the security device grants, to the client system, access to one or more network resources protected by the security device via the network connection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Ted Schroeder, Gabor Lengyel
  • Patent number: 11265315
    Abstract: An information processing terminal, including a speaker unit, for receiving and processing an input of voice information, performs control, in a case where it is determined that authentication is needed for execution of a service corresponding to an input of voice information, to perform biometric authentication using information extracted as biological information of a user corresponding to the input voice information, and notifies, in a case where the biometric authentication is successful, the user via the speaker unit of a message regarding the execution of the service as a response to the input of the voice information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Shunsuke Ota
  • Patent number: 11263624
    Abstract: Provided is a computer-implemented method for automatically encoding data in an electronic communication. The method includes the steps of receiving an electronic communication including textual data, the textual data including account data inputted with a microphone and processed with a speech recognition system, in response to receiving the electronic communication, automatically processing the textual data, identifying the account data based on processing the textual data, generating at least one token, wherein the at least one token is unique to the account data, generating a modified electronic communication based at least partially on the textual data and the at least one token, the modified electronic communication comprising the at least one token, and communicating the modified electronic communication to a recipient system. A system and computer program product for automatically encoding data in an electronic communication are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: Visa International Service Association
    Inventors: Rhidian Desmond Thomas John, Bartlomiej Piotr Prokop, Sean Robert Maurice Mathe, Michael Palmer, Mary-Claire Graham, Fiachra Murray, Nicola McCartan
  • Patent number: 11265307
    Abstract: Provided is a process including: receiving, with an intermediary server, a request to access web content at a web server; submitting, from the intermediary server a value by which possession of an access credential is demonstrated, wherein the value is withheld from the client web browser; receiving, by the intermediary web browser, instructions to store in web browser memory an access token; and sending, from the intermediary server, to the client web browser executing on the client computing device, instructions to store the access token in browser memory of the client web browser, thereby authenticating the client web browser without the client web browser having access to the value by which possession of the access credential is demonstrated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: ALTR SOLUTIONS, INC.
    Inventors: James Douglas Beecham, Scott Nathaniel Goldfarb
  • Patent number: 11257084
    Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure relate to linking channel-specific systems with a user authentication hub. In some embodiments, a computing platform may receive, from a mobile device, an authentication request for a user account and may generate one or more authentication prompts. Subsequently, the computing platform may provide the one or more authentication prompts and may validate responses to the authentication prompts. Based on validating the responses to the authentication prompts, the computing platform may generate one or more security questions based on historical information associated with the user account. Subsequently, the computing platform may provide the one or more security questions and may validate one or more responses to the one or more security questions. Based on validating the one or more responses to the one or more security questions, the computing platform may provide user account information associated with the user account to the mobile device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: Bank of America Corporation
    Inventors: Mark A. Pender, Daniel L. Carpenter, Kapil Pruthi, Xianhong Zhang, Apeksh M. Dave, Elizabeth Votaw, Andrew T. Keys