Brian Hanafee

Patents

Credentialing Cloud-Based Applications

US 11,151,253 (Oct 19, 2021).

Credentialing a trusted application inside a cloud environment by giving it a dedicated certificate service that retrieves a secret from outside the cloud and verifies it inside, then deploys the application as a trusted instance.

Break the Glass for Financial Access

US 12,229,824 (Feb 18, 2025); US 11,704,729 (Jul 18, 2023); US 11,037,231 (Jun 15, 2021).

Methods for determining access to a customer’s financial account upon an adverse event — death or incapacitation detected from a user device — and granting that access to a designee.

Session Management, Security Scoring and Friction Management

US 11,848,957 (Dec 19, 2023); US 11,503,068 (Nov 15, 2022); US 10,237,298 (Mar 19, 2019).

Monitoring user sessions for commonalities and closing or freezing additional sessions; producing a per-user security score with suggested improvement strategies; and applying extra layers of security based on suspicious behavior.

Enhanced Advertisement Click-Through Customer Data

US 11,023,925 (Jun 1, 2021).

When a consumer clicks through from a publisher’s ad to an advertiser’s webpage, the advertiser system receives financial information about the consumer and customizes the page accordingly.

Location Tracking

US 9,743,375 (Aug 27, 2017).

A location-tracking application with separate interfaces for tracked users and tracking initiators; the tracked device sends encrypted location data to a tracking entity and a key to a third party, separating data from access to protect privacy.