IP Library Granted Patent US 12,321,951
Granted Patent B2
US 12,321,951 · App. 17/722,196 · Granted Jun 3, 2025

Systems and methods for fraudulent activity detection

Inventors: Eduardo Correia da Silva Brazao (Potomac Falls, VA); Steven Norman Brumer (Vero Beach, FL); Ian Michael Klein (Loganville, GA); Li Kong (Potomac, MD); Marc Rudloff Plante (Mount Pleasant, SC); Sridhar Ramachandran (Rockville, MD); Kimberly Tashner Shyu (Chantilly, VA); Robert Janusz Sliwa (Chalfont, PA); Jeffrey Scott Smith (Overland Park, KS); Christopher Anton Wendt (Chester Springs, PA); Haofang Yu (Harvard, MA)
Assignee: Somos, Inc.
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Patent No.
US 12,321,951
App. No.
17/722,196
Granted
Jun 3, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

An apparatus for detecting fraudulent activity includes a device property data processing circuit, a security analysis circuit, an alert circuit, and an alert provisioning circuit. The device property data processing circuit is structured to interpret device property data corresponding to a device registered with an Internet of Things (IoT) device registry. The security analysis circuit is structured to determine, based at least in part on the device property data, that the device is subject to a fraud event. The alert circuit is structured to generate, responsive to the determined fraud event, a message that identifies the device. The alert provisioning circuit is structured to transmit the message.

Claims (76)

1. An apparatus, comprising:

a device registration circuit structured to:

interpret a device registration request for a device, wherein the device registration request has first device property data;

generate, based at least in part on the first device property data, an Internet of Things Universal ID (IoT UID) in response to the registration request, the IoT UID comprising a meta identity component and a service identity component; and

store the first device property data with the IoT UID in a record in a database;

a device property data processing circuit structured to interpret second device property data corresponding to the device;

a security analysis circuit structured to determine, based at least in part on the second device property data and the first device property data, that the device is subject to a fraud event;

an alert circuit structured to generate, responsive to the determined fraud event, a message that identifies the device; and

an alert provisioning circuit structured to transmit the message.

2. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the security analysis circuit comprises:

an artificial intelligence circuit structured to detect the fraud event, based at least in part on analyzing the first device property data and the second device property data using an artificial intelligence process.

3. The apparatus of claim 2 , wherein the artificial intelligence process includes a neural network.

4. The apparatus of claim 3 , wherein the neural network is trained on detecting correlations between the fraud event and at least one of:

a cyber-attack;

a software version;

a firmware version;

a hardware version;

an unauthorized access;

a device failure event;

device ownership;

a device manufacturer;

a location; or

a network outage.

5. The apparatus of claim 2 , wherein the artificial intelligence process is based at least in part on a deep learning network.

6. The apparatus of claim 1 , further comprising:

a visualization circuit structured to generate and transmit fraud event visualization data configured to depict a visualization of the fraud event on an electronic display.

7. The apparatus of claim 6 , wherein the visualization is a map.

8. A method, comprising:

interpreting, via a device registration circuit, a device registration request for a device, wherein the device registration request has first device property data;

generating, via the device registration circuit and based at least in part on the first device property data, an Internet of Things Universal ID (IoT UID) in response to the registration request, the IoT UID comprising a meta identity component and a service identity component;

storing, via the device registration circuit, the first device property data with the IoT UID in a record in a database;

interpreting, via a device property data processing circuit, second device property data corresponding to the device;

determining, via a security analysis circuit based at least in part on the second device property data and the first device property data, that the device is subject to a fraud event;

generating, responsive to the determined fraud event, via an alert circuit, a message that identifies the device; and

transmitting, via an alert provisioning circuit, the message.

9. The method of claim 8 , further comprising transmitting, via the alert provisioning circuit, the message to at least one of:

a device management platform corresponding to the device;

a user of the device;

a manufacturer of the device; or

an entity that monitors the device.

10. The method of claim 8 , further comprising displaying the message via a display circuit.

11. The method of claim 8 , further comprising logging the fraud event in a database via a fraud event log circuit.

12. The method of claim 8 , further comprising:

interpreting, via a device management platform, the message transmitted by the alert provisioning circuit; and

by the device management platform, at least one of:

quarantining the device;

disabling the device; or

patching the device.

13. The method of claim 8 , further comprising providing a trust indicator for the device, based at least in part on the determined fraud event.

14. The method of claim 8 , further comprising interpreting a device event message and updating the record based at least in part on the device event message.

15. An apparatus, comprising:

a device registration circuit structured to:

interpret a device registration request for a device, wherein the device registration request has device property data;

generate, based at least in part on the device property data, an Internet of Things Universal ID (IoT UID) in response to the registration request, the IoT UID comprising a meta identity component and a service identity component; and

store the device property data with the IoT UID in a record in a database;

a device property data processing circuit structured to:

at a first time, interpret the device property data corresponding to the device; and

at a second time, interpret the device property data corresponding to the device;

a change detection circuit structured to detect a change in the device property data between the first time and the second time;

a fraud detection circuit structured to determine that the change corresponds to a fraud event;

an alert circuit structured to generate, responsive to the determining that the change corresponds to a fraud event, a message that identifies the device corresponding to the device property data; and

an alert provisioning circuit structured to transmit the message.

16. The apparatus of claim 15 , wherein the fraud detection circuit comprises:

an artificial intelligence circuit structured to detect the fraud event, based at least in part on analyzing the device property data using an artificial intelligence process.

17. The apparatus of claim 16 , wherein the artificial intelligence process includes a neural network.

18. The apparatus of claim 17 , wherein the neural network is trained on detecting correlations between the fraud event and at least one of:

a cyber-attack;

a software version;

a firmware version;

a hardware version;

an unauthorized access;

a device failure event;

device ownership;

a device manufacturer;

a location; or

a network outage.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Dec 6, 2022
From: BRAZAO, EDUARDO CORREIA DA SILVA; BRUMER, STEVEN NORMAN; KLEIN, IAN MICHAEL; KONG, LI; PLANTE, MARC RUDLOFF; RAMACHANDRAN, SRIDHAR; SHYU, KIMBERLY TASHNER; SLIWA, ROBERT JANUSZ; SMITH, JEFFREY SCOTT; WENDT, CHRISTOPHER ANTON; YU, HAOFANG
To: SOMOS INC.
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Continuity (2)
Provisional Application 63175920 · Apr 16, 2021
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