Management Patents (Class 726/6)
  • Patent number: 12229271
    Abstract: A control apparatus for a vehicle includes a processor, a storage, and a first determining unit. The processor is configured to control a control target mounted in the vehicle. The storage is configured to contain unauthorized entry data. The unauthorized entry data indicates a presence of an unauthorized entry into the vehicle. The first determining unit is configured to make a determination on a necessity of a secure boot process upon activation of the processor, on the basis of the unauthorized entry data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: SUBARU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hironori Ooshima, Hisataro Iinami, Kouichi Seki
  • Patent number: 12231555
    Abstract: A client communications device and method for generating a user message comprising an assertion for verification by a remote server device is described. Payload data for the user message as generated by a secure application resident on the communications device is received. Biometric authentication of the user is performed as a first level security mechanism. If biometric authentication of the user is successful, a digital signature is generated based on the message payload as a second level security mechanism. The digital signature is generated using a private signature key stored in a secure element of the client device. A third level security mechanism is applied by authenticating the user message using a secure application-specific key. In implementations, the digital signature is generated in a secure environment of the client device which has sole access to the secure element after successful biometric authentication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: GRABTAXI HOLDINGS PTE. LTD.
    Inventors: Gennady Medvinsky, Surya Anil Lingamallu, Hardik Bipinbhai Doshi, Prasanna Kanagasabai
  • Patent number: 12231419
    Abstract: Methods and systems for unique session number sharing to ensure traceability are discussed herein. According to an implementation, a user sends a request to login a browser from a user equipment to a server device. The server device validates a user credential associated with the browser by comparing the user credential with pre-stored user registration information. Once the user credential is validated, the server device generates a session with a unique session number (USN) with respect to the request. The server device generates a plurality of logs with respect to the activities occurred during the session and associates the USN with each of the multiple logs. The USN is further included in an access token that authorizes the user to access the websites hosted by the browser.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: T-Mobile USA, Inc.
    Inventors: Nilay Srivastava, Michael Engan, Jiawen Tu, James Alexander Latham
  • Patent number: 12231885
    Abstract: Systems and methods are described herein for enabling discovery and selection of a WTRU-to-network relay by a remote WTRU and handling a WTRU-to-network relay configuration update. The WTRU-to-network relay may broadcast a service type indicating that the service type is available or conditionally available based on the WTRU-to-network relay slicing configuration. The WTRU-to-network relay may update broadcasting the service type or the indication that the service type as being conditionally available based on update of the WTRU-to-network relay slicing configuration. The WTRU-to-network relay may relay traffic between one or more distinct remote WTRUs and the core network node via a WTRU-to-network relay. The WTRU-to-network relay may reuse an existing PDU session for relay traffic or send a PDU session establishment request to network with the requested PDU session parameters depending on if the session parameters associated with an existing PDU session match the PDU session requirements of the remote WTRU.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Inventors: Xiaoyan Shi, Samir Ferdi, Saad Ahmad, Michelle Perras, Alec Brusilovsky, Guanzhou Wang
  • Patent number: 12225025
    Abstract: A system retrieves from cloud storage a packet(s) sampled from network traffic detected for software deployed on a cloud instance within a cloud environment. Each packet is inspected with deep packet inspection (DPI) to determine characteristics of the packet from which the identity/type of the corresponding software are determined. The system correlates the data/metadata generated from DPI with data/metadata of other cloud resources of the cloud environment based on determining the cloud resources to which the cloud instance is related or which also support deployment/execution of the software. The correlated data/metadata are evaluated based on security policies which include criteria for characteristics of software running on the cloud infrastructure rather than criteria for cloud infrastructure configuration alone. The system thus determines whether a cloud resource complies with the security policies based at least partly on the types/characteristics of software with which it is correlated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2024
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: Palo Alto Networks, Inc.
    Inventor: Krishnan Shankar Narayan
  • Patent number: 12225626
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a 5th generation (5G) or pre-5G communication system for supporting a higher data transmission rate after a 4th generation (4G) communication system such as long-term evolution (LTE). According to various embodiments of the present disclosure, according to various embodiments of the present disclosure, an operating method of a network exposure function (NEF) in a wireless communication system is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Youngkyo Baek, Sunghoon Kim
  • Patent number: 12225005
    Abstract: One or more first servers can implement an example method including storing, at a memory accessible by the first one or more servers, a primary email address for a user. The method further includes detecting a request, from a client device associated with the user, to access a network resource hosted at a second one or more servers, wherein the network resource is associated with an online service. The method also includes automatically generating a secondary email address for the user that is unique to the online service; and transmitting the secondary email address to the second one or more servers such that the online service receives the secondary email address for the user without receiving the primary email address for the user, thereby enabling the online service to transmit emails to the user despite not receiving the primary email address for the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: JOINESTY, INC.
    Inventors: Robert Jeffrey Yoskowitz, Stephen Michael Yoskowitz, Andreas Imthurn, Elder Donizetti Dos Santos
  • Patent number: 12218940
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for online authentication of online attributes. One method includes receiving an authentication request from a rely party, the authentication request including identity information to be authenticated and credential information to be authenticated; determining whether a user account is associated with the received identity information by accessing an internal database; accessing user data of the user account determined to be associated with received identity information; determining authentication data to obtained from a user associated with the user account based on the user data of the user account and the credential information to be authenticated; transmitting a request for authentication data; receiving authentication data associated with the user; transmitting authentication data associated with the user; and receiving an authentication result from the verification data source server for the user associated with authentication data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: ID.me, Inc.
    Inventors: Blake Hall, Tanel Suurhans
  • Patent number: 12216761
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and other embodiments described herein relate to adaptable canary values. In one embodiment, a method includes acquiring state information about a program executing within a vehicle. The state information specifies at least a security level of segments of the program. The method includes, responsive to the program satisfying a generating threshold, generating a canary value according to the state information. The method includes inserting the canary value into a memory address associated with the program.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ameer Kashani, Gopalakrishnan Iyer, Carlos Mora-Golding, Hirofumi Yamashita
  • Patent number: 12218717
    Abstract: According to the present disclosure, there are provided methods and devices for utilizing controllable metasurface devices capable of redirecting a wavefront transmitted by a transmitter to a receiver in the wireless network to take advantage of the controllable metasurface device capabilities, intelligence, coordination and speed, and thereby enable solutions having different signaling details and capability requirements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Mohammadhadi Baligh, Jianglei Ma
  • Patent number: 12212561
    Abstract: Various embodiments of the present disclosure provide techniques for facilitating a credential-less exchange over a network using a plurality of identifier mapping and member interfaces. The techniques may include initiating the presentation of an enrollment user interface via a client device of a user and receiving selection data indicative of a selection of a service provider instrument from the enrollment user interface. The techniques include generating a matching code for authenticating the user, providing the matching code to a service provider platform, and receiving the matching code from a partner platform. In response to an authentication of the user based on the matching code, the techniques may include generating an UUEK for the user that may be used to replace persistent credentials.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: 1080 Network, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher Michael Petersen, Tim Kuchlein
  • Patent number: 12210659
    Abstract: Systems and methods for real-time management of delta inventory certificates for component validation using eventing and cloud infrastructures are described. In an embodiment, an Information Handling System (IHS) may include: a processor, a Remote Access Controller (RAC) coupled to the processor, and a memory coupled to the RAC. The memory may have program instructions stored thereon that, upon execution by the RAC, cause the RAC to: determine that a component has been added to the IHS; in response to the addition, request that a delta inventory certificate be generated by a remote validation service; and receive a copy of the delta inventory certificate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: Dell Products, L.P.
    Inventors: Mahesh Babu Ramaiah, Kalyani Korubilli
  • Patent number: 12211032
    Abstract: A method of increasing security of digital assets stored in an isolated device by associating the isolated device with a plurality of accounts of the user each configured to store a limited value of digital assets, each of the plurality of accounts is assigned an asymmetric cryptographic key pair (comprising a unique private key encrypting the respective account and a corresponding public key identifying the respective account), transmitting, via a unidirectional secure channel, the public key assigned to each of the plurality of accounts to one or more computing nodes connected to a network community regulating the digital assets and transferring a value of the digital assets by transmitting, to one or more of the computing nodes, the private key of one or more of the plurality of accounts cumulatively storing the transferred value thus releasing the limited value stored in the respective account(s).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: Galaxy Digital Trading LLC
    Inventors: Shahar Shamai, Lior Lamesh
  • Patent number: 12204661
    Abstract: A validation software obtains a session datum from a request initiating at a device. The validation software hashes the session datum to obtain a hashed session datum. The validation software transmits a validation request that includes a portion of the hashed session datum to a validation server. The portion of the hashed session datum may have a length that is less than a length of the hashed session datum. The validation software determines, and based on a response received from the validation server, that the session datum is likely compromised. In response to determining that the session datum is likely compromised, a notification is output at the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2024
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Inventors: Domininkas Virbickas, Kamil Danek, Vakaris Noreika
  • Patent number: 12199977
    Abstract: A method includes receiving, by a token provider server, a first request for a first token that is associated with first information from a first application. The first request for the first token is part of an application session between a plurality of applications that includes the first application. The token provider server provides the first token to the first application. The token provider server receives the first token from a second application of the plurality of applications. The token provider server provides first information associated with the first token to the second application. The first information enables an action to be performed by the second application based on the first information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: PAYPAL, INC.
    Inventor: Rahul Nair
  • Patent number: 12200494
    Abstract: A coordinator module, a cyber threat analyst module, and AI models trained to model a normal pattern of life for entities in a wireless domain and a normal pattern of life for entities in a second domain cooperate with a combination of wireless sensors with RF protocol adapters to monitor and analyze wireless activity and probes to monitor activity in the second domain in order to analyze an anomaly of interest in a wider view of another domain's activity. These modules and models understand and assess the wireless activity and the activity from the second domain in light of the AI models modelling the pattern of life for entities in a wireless domain and/or a in the second domain in order to detect a cyber threat indicated by at least by the anomaly of interest. A formatting model generates an alert and/or a report.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: Darktrace Holdings Limited
    Inventor: Simon David Lincoln Fellows
  • Patent number: 12192199
    Abstract: Systems, apparatuses, methods, and computer program products are disclosed for providing continuous session authentication and monitoring. An example method includes authenticating, at a first time, a session for a user of the client device based on an authentication image data structure and a plurality of first video frames captured before the first time. The example method further includes extracting sample data from a monitor region for each of a plurality of second video frames captured after the first time and generating motion data based on the extracted sample data. The example method further includes detecting, at a second time, a re-authentication trigger event based on the motion data. Subsequently, the example method includes re-authenticating the session based on the authentication image data structure and a plurality of third video frames captured after the second time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
    Inventors: Abhijit Rao, Masoud Vakili
  • Patent number: 12184635
    Abstract: An information processing system includes an installation device and a cyber physical system (CPS) device. The installation device includes a detection unit, a determination unit, and a first communication unit. The detection unit detects a communication state of a first network to which a first CPS server device is connected. The determination unit determines the first CPS server device or a second CPS server device as an initial registration destination, based on the communication state. The first communication unit transmits a notification indicating the initial registration destination to the CPS device. The CPS device includes a memory control unit and a registration processing unit. The memory control unit stores, upon receiving the notification from the installation device, the initial registration destination included in the notification in a memory unit. The registration processing unit connects to the initial registration destination, to perform initial registration of the CPS device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventor: Toshio Ito
  • Patent number: 12182243
    Abstract: Provided is a system for face authentication which can operate separately for individual providers of face authentication service in a stable and efficient manner. The system includes: face authentication machines; an administrator terminal; a face management server for storing face image data of registered users; and face matching servers, each configured to generate face feature amount data of a person to be verified from image data acquired from the camera of a face authentication machine and to perform a matching operation by comparing the face feature amount data of the person with that of registered users. Prior to face authentication, data of associations between face authentication machines and face matching servers entered by an administrator is transmitted from the administrator terminal to the face management server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kentarou Nakamura, Masashi Ozono, Takao Shime
  • Patent number: 12177362
    Abstract: An attribute information conversion device includes: a memory; and a processor coupled to the memory and configured to: issue first access information and second access information linked to each other in response to a request upon reception of the request for conversion from attribute information of a first type of a user that may be used in a first service into the attribute information of a second type that may be used in a second service different from the first service; perform, upon acquisition of the attribute information of the user from a terminal through the first access information, conversion of the acquired attribute information from the attribute information of the first type into the attribute information of the second type; and output the converted attribute information to a terminal that has made access through the second access information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Takuya Sakamoto, Mebae Yamaoka, Takeru Fukuoka
  • Patent number: 12177210
    Abstract: Upon an attempt to access a service of a third-party server, full-duplex password-less authentication provides a one-time password to the user displayed at the client device and at a mobile device associated with the user. The user verifies the access by comparing the one-time password displayed at the mobile device and the one-time password displayed at the client device. In some embodiments, the one-time password is displayed as a picture while in other embodiments, a combination of a picture the one-time password is displayed as a picture and a set of alphanumeric characters for ease in making the comparison. The user determines whether to accept or deny the authentication sequence after a simple visual comparison.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: IDENTITÉ, INC
    Inventors: John P. Hertrich, Mohammad Mozdurani Shiraz
  • Patent number: 12169543
    Abstract: Provided is a system for face authentication which can operate separately for individual providers of face authentication service in a stable and efficient manner. The system includes: face authentication machines; an administrator terminal; a face management server for storing image data of registered users; and face matching servers, each configured to generate face feature amount data of a person to be verified from image data acquired from the camera of a face authentication machine and perform a matching operation by comparing the face feature amount data of the person with that of registered users. Prior to face authentication, data of associations between face authentication machines and face matching servers entered by an administrator is transmitted from the administrator terminal to the face management server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kentarou Nakamura, Masashi Ozono, Takao Shime
  • Patent number: 12169867
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for assessing an account takeover risk for one or more accounts of an individual. The account security procedures for each of a number of services with which the user has an account may be analyzed. Publicly accessible information regarding the user may also be collected and analyzed. The collected information and security procedures may be compared in order to determine one or more vulnerabilities to hostile account takeover of one or more of the analyzed accounts. An alert may be generated regarding a determined takeover risk, which may include suggested actions for remedying the risk.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: ConsumerInfo.com, Inc.
    Inventors: Mark Joseph Kapczynski, Michael John Dean, Herbert Harris Hunt, III
  • Patent number: 12169838
    Abstract: A communications server apparatus for managing authentication of a user based on one or more authentication events in a session is provided, to, in one or more data records, generate, for each authentication event, data indicative of a trust score corresponding to the authentication event; and generate, data indicative of a security score based on the trust scores corresponding to the one or more authentication events in the session, and, in response to receiving request data indicative of an authentication request associated with the user corresponding to a transaction in the session, the transaction having a value indicator, authenticate the user if the security score satisfies a condition for authentication corresponding to the transaction according to the value indicator, wherein security scores for satisfying the condition are variable according to value indicators of transactions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: GRABTAXI HOLDINGS PTE. LTD.
    Inventors: Gennady Medvinsky, Surya Anil Lingamallu, Alexander Yukhanov
  • Patent number: 12164609
    Abstract: An apparatus, method and computer program is disclosed. The apparatus may comprise means for receiving video data representing a video recording of at least one input made by a user at a user device; receiving audio data representing an audio recording of at least one audio input made by the user at the user device; determining whether there is a correspondence between the at least one input represented in the video data and the at least one audio input represented in the audio data; and providing verification based on the determination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY
    Inventors: Harry Cronin, William Schnabel, Christopher Wright, Phil Catton
  • Patent number: 12160737
    Abstract: In general, techniques are described by which to perform secure fine time measurement for wireless communication protocols. An initiating station comprising wireless communication circuitry may be configured to perform the techniques. The wireless communication circuitry may be configured to receive, in accordance with a wireless networking protocol for communicating between the initiating station and a responding station, a first fine time measurement specifying a first time. The wireless communication circuitry may also be configured to receive, in accordance with the wireless networking protocol and for the corresponding first time, a first message integrity code. The wireless communication circuitry may next be configured to authenticate, based on the first message integrity code, the responding station to establish that the fine time measurement is from a trusted responding station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: Cypress Semiconductor Corporation
    Inventors: Hui Luo, Saishankar Nandagopalan
  • Patent number: 12159158
    Abstract: A gateway performs silent authentication refreshes with an identity management platform in order to extend the expiration of a cookie provided to an endpoint that accesses network applications through the gateway.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: Sophos Limited
    Inventors: Biju Ramachandra Kaimal, Venkata Suresh Reddy Obulareddy
  • Patent number: 12155672
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for creating, and guaranteeing the integrity of electronic messages, within a server providing Internet service. The integrity of the electronic messages are guaranteed and verifiable according to the MIME standard having a header with data regarding routing and regarding content type, an address of the sender and at least one recipient address, and a body comprising a message content. The MIME standard allows the insertion, into the header, of one or more extension fields. These fields comprise a pair formed of one tag allowing the field to be identified and of a value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: MAILSTONE
    Inventor: Franck Dammann
  • Patent number: 12149512
    Abstract: A multitude of systems and methods are provided. An encryption method and system utilizing vector label input threshold encryption is included, enabling decentralized confidentiality and decentralized, fine-grained, and attributed-based access control, enabling clients to define by whom, when, and how their data is accessed. Additionally, the disclosed systems and methods can include publish/subscribe mechanisms while achieving confidentiality-preserving and decoupled publish/subscribe messaging and strong total order for publications even with crytographic access control enforced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, BALTIMORE COUNTY
    Inventors: Haibin Zhang, Sisi Duan, Yelena Yesha
  • Patent number: 12142022
    Abstract: Upon determining a confidence score for challenge biometric data for a user of an object is less than a first confidence threshold, a confirmation confidence score for the challenge biometric data is determined based on a remote confidence score for the challenge biometric data received from a remote computer. Upon determining that the confirmation confidence score is greater than a second confidence threshold, a user status of the user is determined based on an authenticator. The user status is one of authorized or not authorized. The second confidence threshold is less than the first confidence threshold. Upon determining that the confirmation confidence score is less than or equal to the second confidence threshold, the user status is determined based on supplemental biometric data. Object components are controller based on the user status.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Mahmoud Yousef Ghannam, Brian Bennie
  • Patent number: 12143471
    Abstract: A system and method to tie a removable component to a host device. A first pairing key is stored into a security module on a host device such as a server rack. A removable component is inserted into the server rack for the first time. In response to this first insertion the first pairing key is burned into the removable component using a plurality of physically modifiable internal components. The server rack/security module receives a request form the removable component to operate on the server rack, the request includes a burned in pairing key. The security module compares the received pairing key with the first pairing key and permits operation of the removable component in response to a match between the received pairing key and the first pairing key.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Eric J. Campbell, Christopher Steffen, Chad Albertson, Nicholas Ollerich
  • Patent number: 12143816
    Abstract: Disclosed are example methods, systems, and devices that allow for the generation and provisioning of digital credentials, which may demonstrate that a trusted entity has validated individual identity attributes, or sets of attributes, of a user. Digital credentials may also demonstrate one or more extrapolations resulting from deductions or inductions from validated identity attributes. A receiver device may indicate which identity attributes or extrapolations are sought by displaying a QR or other code and/or via a transmission using NFC or other wireless communication, and a user device may access corresponding digital attributes in an ID wallet to be provisioned via code or transmission. Digital credentials may restrict uses and usability of identity attributes. Cryptographic keys and/or distributed ledger records may allow recipients to verify authenticity of digital credentials. The same identity attribute may be proven by showing validation by multiple selectable trusted entities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
    Inventors: Harmit Singh Dhanoa, Andrew G. Foote, Nikolai Stroke, Duc M. Trinh
  • Patent number: 12143382
    Abstract: Particular systems, methods, and program products for web-based security systems for user authentication and processing in a distributed computing environment are disclosed. A computing sub-system may receive an electronic processing request and a first signed data packet having a first payload that was hashed and encrypted using a first private key. The first payload may comprise first processing output and a first timestamp. The sub-system may verify the first signed data packet by decrypting it using a first public key. The sub-system may execute computing operations to satisfy the electronic processing request, producing second processing output. The sub-system may configure a data packet with a second payload comprising at least the second processing output and a second timestamp. The sub-system may encrypt the second payload using a second private key producing a second signed data packet. The sub-system may transmit to a second sub-system the second signed data packet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: Gemini IP, LLC
    Inventors: Andrew Laucius, Eric Winer, Ismail Cem Paya
  • Patent number: 12141260
    Abstract: In an authentication device, an image conversion unit converts a visible light image obtained by capturing a region including an iris of a subject in visible light, and generates a converted image. For example, the image conversion unit converts the visible light image into a monochrome image. A feature value extraction unit extracts a feature value of the converted image. A collation unit performs authentication of the subject by collating the feature value extracted from the converted image with a feature value generated from an infrared image of an iris.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Momotaka Aoki
  • Patent number: 12135773
    Abstract: Provided is a system for face authentication which can operate separately for individual providers of face authentication service in a stable and efficient manner, which system includes: face authentication machines; an administrator terminal; a face management server for storing face image data of registered users; and face matching servers each configured to generate face feature amount data of a person to be verified from image data acquired from a camera of a face authentication machine. The face matching servers further perform a matching operation by comparing the face feature amount data of the person with that of the registered users, wherein, prior to face authentication, data of associations between face authentication machines and face matching servers entered by an administrator is transmitted from the administrator terminal to the face management server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kentarou Nakamura, Masashi Ozono, Takao Shime
  • Patent number: 12136107
    Abstract: Example methods, apparatuses, and systems are presented that allows a user to make a secure purchase online, directly through accessing an online advertisement and without being redirected to multiple, cumbersome webpages to process different pieces of information to complete the transaction, while still leveraging existing e-commerce entities, such as existing payment platforms and existing ad/content networks. The present system includes a commerce ads engine (CA engine) that interfaces with the user through an app associated with the CA engine, a tokenization platform for authentication of the user, and a merchant providing relevant offer and check out information about a product being advertised in an online ad.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2024
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2024
    Assignee: TBOL, Inc.
    Inventor: Shaunt M. Sarkissian
  • Patent number: 12135826
    Abstract: Examples described herein relate to a security management system to secure a container ecosystem. In some examples, the security management system may protect one or more entities such as container management applications, container images, containers, and/or executable applications within the containers. The security management system may make use of digital cryptography to generate digital signatures corresponding to one or more of these entities and verify them during the execution so that any compromised entities can be blocked from execution and the container ecosystem may be safeguarded from any malicious network attacks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2024
    Assignee: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP
    Inventors: Wan-Yen Hsu, Chih-Hao Chang, Lin-Chan Hsiao
  • Patent number: 12126686
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a communication circuit and a processor, The processor is configured to obtain a connection code related to an external electronic device through the communication circuit, discover the external electronic device through the communication circuit based on the connection code, establish a first secure channel with the external electronic device, based on the connection code, through the communication circuit, and transmit a control command for an internet-of-things (IoT) device to perform a designated action to the external electronic device through the first secure channel using the connection code.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sanghoon Cho, Namjin Kim
  • Patent number: 12120102
    Abstract: An agent computer system uses a session-less login process to log in two users in a same application session. The system establishes an application session with an application server and a user session with the application server by authenticating a first user using an identity provider system (IdP). The system detects a request to perform an action by the first user within the application session that requires a second user's authentication. While maintaining the user session, the system requests a session-less authentication of the second user by transmitting an authentication request, which includes a flag indicating that the requested authentication is a session-less authentication. The system receives a confirmation of the authentication of the second user without establishing a second user session and performs the requested action in response to receiving the confirmation of the authentication of the second user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2024
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: Inductive Automation, LLC
    Inventors: Joel Specht, Carl Reuben Gould
  • Patent number: 12118110
    Abstract: A system, apparatus, and method for policy management is provided. The system, apparatus, and method provide a universal policy management solution to unify multiple bespoke systems to enable management of access and other policies in distributed and/or heterogeneous environments. The system, apparatus, and method uses or may be referred to as Identity Query Language or “IDQL.” Policies and user access are defined centrally, and these policies are distributed out to the various bespoke systems. This distribution is aided by a policy gateway, or orchestrator, which acts as a policy mapper and/or API wrapper which accepts IDQL policy configurations, maps them to an imperative identity system, and carries out the IDQL command in the identity systems' native API calls.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: STRATA IDENTITY, INC.
    Inventors: Eric Michael Olden, Christopher Eugene Marie, Carl Eric Leach, Mike Barinek, Gerry Joseph Gebel, Phillip James Dennis Hunt
  • Patent number: 12120508
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to duplication of a near field communication (NFC) card, and an operating method for an electronic device may comprise: detecting a tag of the NFC card; obtaining at least one parameter related to the NFC card; and based on the NFC card satisfying a specified condition, producing a duplicate card of the NFC card by storing the at least one parameter. The specified condition may include the features wherein the NFC card is a designated type of a card and the NFC card uses a default key.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yi Yang, Hyuntae Lee, Sungjun Lim
  • Patent number: 12111901
    Abstract: Provided is a system for face authentication which can operate separately for individual providers of face authentication service in a stable and efficient manner. The system includes: face authentication machines; an administrator terminal; a face management server for storing face image data of registered users; and face matching servers, each configured to generate face feature amount data of a person to be verified from image data acquired from the camera of a face authentication machine and to perform a matching operation by comparing the face feature amount data of the person with that of registered users. Prior to face authentication, data of associations between face authentication machines and face matching servers entered by an administrator is transmitted from the administrator terminal to the face management server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kentarou Nakamura, Masashi Ozono, Takao Shime
  • Patent number: 12111900
    Abstract: A system for face authentication is provided, which can operate separately for individual providers of face authentication service in a stable and efficient manner. The system includes: face authentication machines; an administrator terminal; a face management server for storing face image data of registered users; and face matching servers, each configured to generate face feature amount data of a person to be verified from image data acquired from a camera of one of the face authentication machines. The system performs a matching operation by comparing the face feature amount data of the person with the face image data of the registered users. Further, prior to face authentication, data of associations between the face authentication machines and the face matching servers, which is entered by an administrator, is transmitted from the administrator terminal to the face management server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kentarou Nakamura, Masashi Ozono, Takao Shime
  • Patent number: 12106431
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatus are provided for safe deposit box protocols in a metaverse environment. A metaverse application may enable interactions between an agent avatar and a customer avatar in a secure bidirectional metaverse session. Customer identity may be verified using meta-information associated with avatar appearance or behavior, device data, and/or methods of avatar control. The customer avatar may view a virtual representation or video stream of physical safe deposit box contents in the metaverse environment. In some embodiments, the customer avatar may request a camera adjustment at the physical safe deposit box. In some embodiments, the customer avatar may sign a virtual document in the metaverse environment. The signature may be captured and reproduced on a paper document by a device interfacing with the metaverse application. The metaverse application may store technical logs of the metaverse session for future reference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: Bank of America Corporation
    Inventors: Sneha Padiyar, Nandini Rathaur, Sandeep Kumar Chauhan, Aditya Sharma
  • Patent number: 12105797
    Abstract: A method of enhancing network security across a plurality of tenants is disclosed herein. The method can include: providing a Security Information, and Event Management (SIEM) management application configured to be hosted by a SIEM provider server communicably coupled to a tenant server; coupling, via a data connector, the SIEM management application to a log source hosted by the tenant server, wherein the data connector is configured the control a flow of data to and from the log source; generating, via the SIEM management application, a JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) based solution bundle for the log source; visually displaying, via a user interface of the SIEM management application, a proposed SIEM protocol for the tenant server based, at least in part, on the JSON-based solution bundle; and deploying, via the SIEM management application, the proposed SIEM protocol from the SIEM provider server to the tenant server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: BlueVoyant LLC
    Inventors: Dorian Birsan, Marius Mocanu, Igor Bologan
  • Patent number: 12101629
    Abstract: A network repository function, NRF, in a core network domain of a mobile communication network is provided, wherein the NRF is configured to register network function, NF, profiles for NF discovery, and wherein NF certificates have been issued to the NFs, each NF certificate including a public key of the respective NF and at least one signature of at least one certification authority, CA. The NRF is configured to receive, from a registering NF having an NF certificate, profile information comprising an NF identity of the registering NF, an NF type of the registering NF, and at least one CA certificate of at least one CA that signed the NF certificate issued to the registering NF. The NRF is further configured to store the received profile information in a repository.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Publ)
    Inventors: Pablo Martinez De La Cruz, Francisco Javier Garcia Garcia
  • Patent number: 12095784
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for indicating the possibility of a cyber-attack on a computer network, comprising: receiving, from one or more security components installed in a network, an indication of activity within the network associated with a security threat; mapping the indication of activity to one or more cyber-attack techniques; identifying one or more previously received indications of activity within the network associated with a security threat; identifying one or more cyber-attack techniques to which the previously received indication(s) of activity have been mapped; determining whether the indication of activity is associated with one or more of the previously received indication(s) of activity, the determination based at least in part on a strength of a relationship between the one or more cyber-attack techniques to which the indication of activity is mapped and the one or more cyber-attack techniques to which the previously received indication(s) of activity have been mapped; and dependent on
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2024
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: Lloyds Banking Group PLC
    Inventors: Miguel Merayo Suarez, Alexander Wallace, James Bell
  • Patent number: 12088574
    Abstract: A method includes storing first authentication information and second authentication information, the first authentication information being information for a user to access a first information processing device, the second authentication information including third authentication information and fourth authentication information, the third authentication information being information for the user to access a second information processing device, and the fourth authentication information being information for the user to access a third information processing device; acquiring first index information from the second information processing device based on the third authentication information; acquiring second index information from the third information processing device based on the fourth authentication information; and generating a list including the first index information with a first indication, and the second index information with a second indication different from the first indication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Satoru Hirakata, Ryoh Shimomoto, Shinya Mukasa, Teruaki Takahashi
  • Patent number: 12086494
    Abstract: A communication apparatus that communicates with an information processing apparatus includes a first control unit configured to execute first control to acquire connection information for the communication apparatus to connect to an access point from the information processing apparatus via communication with the information processing apparatus using a first protocol, and a third control unit configured to execute third control to, in a case where the connection between the communication apparatus and the access point is not established using the connection information acquired by the first control unit, continue the second state where the communication apparatus can communicate with the information processing apparatus using the second protocol, without disabling the second state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Wahei Sugawara
  • Patent number: 12086233
    Abstract: An orchestration engine intermittently scans secrets, of different secret types, to identify secrets that are to be rotated. The orchestration engine calls an application programming interface (API) exposed by a serverless management system and wakes up the serverless management system. The serverless management system generates a new secret, stores the new secret for rotation, and interacts with a dependent system in order to revoke an old secret and implement the new secret. Once the secret is rotated, and the new secret is implemented, the orchestration engine stores the new secret in a secret store.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Bhaskardeep Khaund, Bo Wu, Yiqun Wang, Chen Shen