- Patent Title: Determining the intersection of a set of compromised credentials with a set of active credentials with data structures and architectures that expedite comparisons
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Application No.: US16667486Application Date: 2019-10-29
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Publication No.: US11438360B2Publication Date: 2022-09-06
- Inventor: David Endler , Alen Puzic , Edward Ross
- Applicant: SpyCloud, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US TX Austin
- Assignee: SpyCloud, Inc.
- Current Assignee: SpyCloud, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US TX Austin
- Agency: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP
- Main IPC: H04L9/40
- IPC: H04L9/40

Abstract:
Provided is a process that includes: obtaining, with one or more processors, a query identifying a user identification; retrieving, with one or more processors, via an application programming interface, from a database, one or more passwords associated with one or more user identification entries in the database that matches the user identification in response to the obtained query; determining, with one or more processors, whether the one or more passwords matches a password associated with the user identification; blocking, with one or more processors, access to a user account associated with the user identification and the password when the one or more passwords matches the password associated with the user identification; and notifying, with one or more processors, a user associated with the user account to reset the password when the one or more passwords matches the password associated with the user identification.
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