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Patents by Inventor Ameet Ranadive

Patent number: 8990945
Abstract: Detecting a malicious advertisement is disclosed. An advertisement is analyzed. A determination that the advertisement is associated with malicious activity is made. An indication that the advertisement is malicious is provided as output. The indication can be provided as a report, such as to a publisher and can also be provided using an API, such as to the entity responsible for serving the advertisement.
Type: Grant
Filed: May 28, 2013
Issued: March 24, 2015
Assignee: Dasient, Inc.
Inventors: Ameet Ranadive, Shariq Rizvi, Neilkumar Murli Daswani
Patent number: 8806646
Abstract: Behavioral analysis of a mobile webpage is performed to determine whether the webpage is malicious. During analysis, the webpage is visited by an emulated mobile device to cause behaviors to occur which may be malicious. The behaviors occurring after accessing the webpage are stored. The behaviors are classified as hard or soft signals. A probability of the webpage being malicious is determined through combining soft signals, and the webpage is classified as malicious or non-malicious. Users of the webpage, the developer of the webpage, or a distributor of the webpage are notified of the webpage classification to enable responsive action.
Type: Grant
Filed: April 27, 2012
Issued: August 12, 2014
Assignee: Twitter, Inc.
Inventors: Neilkumar Daswani, Ameet Ranadive, Shariq Rizvi, Michael Gagnon, Tufan Demir, Gerry Eisenhaur
Patent number: 8806647
Abstract: Behavioral analysis of a mobile application is performed to determine whether the application is malicious. During analysis, various user interactions are simulated in an emulated environment to activate many possible resulting behaviors of an application. The behaviors are classified as hard or soft signals. A probability of the application being malicious is determined through combining soft signals, and the application is classified as malicious or non-malicious. Users of the application, the developer of the application, or a distributor of the application are notified of the application classification to enable responsive action.
Type: Grant
Filed: April 27, 2012
Issued: August 12, 2014
Assignee: Twitter, Inc.
Inventors: Neilkumar Daswani, Ameet Ranadive, Shariq Rizvi, Michael Gagnon, Tufan Demir, Gerry Eisenhaur
Patent number: 8683584
Abstract: Performing a risk assessment of a website is disclosed. A plurality of elements included in the website is categorized. The risk posed by the presence of at least some of the plurality of elements is assessed. Example elements include third party content and out-of-date web applications. A risk assessment report is provided as output.
Type: Grant
Filed: January 31, 2011
Issued: March 25, 2014
Assignee: Dasient, Inc.
Inventors: Neilkumar Murli Daswani, Ameet Ranadive, Shariq Rizvi
Patent number: 8656491
Abstract: Remediating a suspicious element in a web page is disclosed. An indication of a suspicious element is received. A quarantine instruction is sent to a server of the web page. One example of a quarantine instruction is an instruction to block the page from being served. Another example of a quarantine instruction in as instruction to block an element of the page from being served.
Type: Grant
Filed: December 6, 2012
Issued: February 18, 2014
Assignee: Dasient, Inc.
Inventors: Neilkumar Murli Daswani, Ameet Ranadive, Shariq Rizvi
Patent number: 8555391
Abstract: Diversity information associated with a set of advertisement tags is determined. Example ways of determining diversity include determining a list of distinct Uniform Resource Locators, determining a list of distinct domains, and determining whether an advertisement includes one or more dynamic elements. Scans are adaptively performed based on the determined diversity information. Scanning is performed more frequently for advertisement tags having higher associated diversities and scanning is performed less frequently for advertisement tags having lower associated diversities.
Type: Grant
Filed: June 30, 2011
Issued: October 8, 2013
Assignee: Dasient, Inc.
Inventors: Tufan Demir, Ameet Ranadive, Shariq Rizvi, Neilkumar Murli Daswani
Patent number: 8516590
Abstract: Detecting a malicious advertisement is disclosed. An advertisement is analyzed. A determination that the advertisement is associated with malicious activity is made. An indication that the advertisement is malicious is provided as output. The indication can be provided as a report, such as to a publisher and can also be provided using an API, such as to the entity responsible for serving the advertisement.
Type: Grant
Filed: February 28, 2011
Issued: August 20, 2013
Assignee: Dasient, Inc.
Inventors: Ameet Ranadive, Shariq Rizvi, Neilkumar Murli Daswani
Patent number: 8370938
Abstract: Remediating a suspicious element in a web page is disclosed. An indication of a suspicious element is received. A quarantine instruction is sent to a server of the web page. One example of a quarantine instruction is an instruction to block the page from being served. Another example of a quarantine instruction in as instruction to block an element of the page from being served.
Type: Grant
Filed: April 15, 2010
Issued: February 5, 2013
Assignee: Dasient, Inc.
Inventors: Neilkumar Murli Daswani, Ameet Ranadive, Shariq Rizvi