Intuit Patent Grants

System and method for feature aggregation for tracking anonymous visitors

Granted: February 27, 2024
Patent Number: 11917029
Systems and methods for tracking anonymous visitors of an online website or mobile app are disclosed. The browsing activity by an anonymous visitor of the online website or mobile app is converted into features and a visitor-identifier associated with the browsing activity generated by the anonymous visitor is determined. The features are stored with the visitor-identifier in a super-visitor-state before the visitor-identifier is associated with a super-visitor-identifier. After the…

Phishing detection and mitigation

Granted: February 27, 2024
Patent Number: 11916958
Described herein are example implementations for handling of phishing attempts. A system receives a request to perform an electronic transaction, with the request including information regarding a user account. The system generates one or more probabilities of the request being valid based on the request and processing of a plurality of electronic transactions associated with one or more user accounts, identifies whether the request is valid based on the one or more probabilities, and in…

Methods and systems for validating sensitive data in a distributed computing system without exposing the sensitive data

Granted: February 27, 2024
Patent Number: 11914746
Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for privacy preserving sharing and validation of sensitive information in a computing environment. An example method generally includes generating a hashed value of a sensitive data item. A set of modulo values is calculated for the hashed value of the first sensitive data item using a set of prime numbers between an upper bound number and a lower bound number. A request to validate the first sensitive data item is transmitted…

Method and system for detecting coordinated attacks against computing resources using statistical analyses

Granted: February 27, 2024
Patent Number: 11914704
Certain embodiments of the present disclosure provide techniques for identifying and blocking anomalous transactions within a computing system. An example method generally includes selecting a set of accounts for analysis. For each respective account, an anomaly score is calculated based on an account number associated with the respective account and transaction amounts associated with the respective account. An aggregated anomaly score is generated for each respective account provider…

Dynamically extracting n-grams for automated vocabulary updates

Granted: February 20, 2024
Patent Number: 11907657
Systems and methods dynamically extracting n-grams for automated vocabulary updates. Text is received. An n-gram extracted from the text is matched to a canonical n-gram from a vocabulary to identify a tag for the text. An n-gram weight is computed for the n-gram extracted from the text. The n-gram weight may be computed by adjusting a term frequency of the n-gram. A relevancy score is computed for the tag using the n-gram weight and using an n-gram frequency of the canonical n-gram. The…

Vertex change detection for enhanced document capture

Granted: February 20, 2024
Patent Number: 11910079
Aspects of the present disclosure relate to object-based image capture. Embodiments include identifying a reference point corresponding to an object in an image of a series of images. Embodiments include comparing a position of the reference point in the image to positions of one or more corresponding reference points in one or more previous images in the series of images. Embodiments include determining a total number of images in the series of images. Embodiments include selecting,…

Password storage in a virtual environment

Granted: February 20, 2024
Patent Number: 11909732
A server computer hosting an extended reality world receives a first transmission over a communication network from a computing device associated with a user, the first transmission including a request for the user to access the extended reality world. The server computer transmits a presentation of the extended reality world to the communication device over the communications network based at least in part on the request, and displays the presentation of the extended reality world on…

Method and system for generating user interfaces to prompt users to perform an activity in a software application based on transaction time analysis

Granted: February 20, 2024
Patent Number: 11908023
Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for generating a user interface to prompt users of a software application to perform an action in the software application. The method generally includes generating historical transaction time gap data for transactions in the account. A probability distribution is generated based on the historical time gap data. The probability distribution represents a probability that a transaction related to the account has been performed…

Method and system for smart detection of business hot spots

Granted: February 20, 2024
Patent Number: 11907864
Aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for classifying a trip. Embodiments include receiving, from a plurality of users, a plurality of historical trip records. Each of the plurality of historical trip records may comprise one or more historical trip attributes and historical classification information. Embodiments include training a predictive model, using the plurality of historical trip records, to classify trips based on trip records. Training the predictive model may…

Methods and systems for orchestrating software application variant configuration

Granted: February 20, 2024
Patent Number: 11907707
Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for configuring a software application through a remote configuration service. An example method generally includes receiving, from a remote configuration service, a declarative construct. Generally, the declarative construct includes a definition of a workflow in an application to be executed within a player application deployed on a client device. Information associated with the definition of the workflow is extracted by…

Managing search engines based on search perform metrics

Granted: February 20, 2024
Patent Number: 11907315
Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for managing a search engine based on search performance metrics. An example method generally includes dividing a set of search history data into a first subset of search history data and a second subset of search history data. The first subset of data is associated with interaction with search results, and the second subset of data is associated with non-interaction with search results. A first quality score is generated for…

Method and system for traversing an object graph using traversal context objects

Granted: February 20, 2024
Patent Number: 11907296
Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for enumerating relationships in an object graph using traversal context objects that are decoupled from the implementation details of an object graph and the objects stored therein. An example method generally includes receiving a request to traverse an object graph, the object graph including a plurality of objects. A root context object is generated, and a traversal context object associated with a root node of the object…

Detecting and correcting outliers in categories of transactions

Granted: February 20, 2024
Patent Number: 11907208
The present disclosure provides techniques for detecting and correcting outliers in categories of transactions. One example method includes receiving electronic transaction data indicative of one or more current transactions, wherein the one or more current transactions are associated with a user of a software application, identifying, for each transaction of the one or more transactions, a category using a first machine learning model, computing a distribution for each category of a…

Generic parity solution for highly dynamic sources

Granted: February 20, 2024
Patent Number: 11907205
Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for efficient data parity. Embodiments include receiving, by a first data consuming component, from a publication service, a plurality of database change records indicating changes to an underlying data source. Embodiments include updating, by the first data consuming component, a secondary data store based on the plurality of database change records. Embodiments include selecting a sample subset of the plurality of database…

Generating observability metrics for data lake usage based on data layer activity logs

Granted: February 20, 2024
Patent Number: 11907196
Incoming data requests from the perspective of the data lake, are gathered and analyzed to determine the usage of the data. Using the perspective of the data lake avoids the technical challenge of analyzing data usage by different computation points, which are at different locations, perform hard-to-track different operations, and are often reachable only through complicated access protocols. Another technical challenge of mapping between an object path and a table path is solved by…

Image template-based AR form experiences

Granted: February 13, 2024
Patent Number: 11899908
Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for providing an augmented reality user interface, including: receiving, by an image sensor of an electronic device, an image of a physical document; determining a document type associated with the physical document by performing image recognition on the image of the physical document; determining an augmented reality template to display on a display of the electronic device; displaying the augmented reality template on the…

Detection of abnormal application programming interface (API) sessions including a sequence of API requests

Granted: February 13, 2024
Patent Number: 11900179
A computer-implemented method includes receiving training data including a plurality of API requests from a plurality of client devices. The method includes generating a plurality of permissible API sessions based on the training data. The method includes applying a sequence embedding technique to the plurality of permissible API sessions to generate a plurality of embeddings. The method includes applying a dimensionality reduction technique to the plurality of embeddings to generate a…

Predicting attributes for recipients

Granted: February 13, 2024
Patent Number: 11900365
The present disclosure provides techniques for recommending vendors using machine learning models. One example method includes receiving electronic transaction data indicative of one or more transactions, identifying, from the one or more transactions, a subset of transactions that are associated with for known attribute values with respect to one or more unique recipients, computing, for each unique provider of the one or more unique providers, a provider feature based on the known…

Dynamic scheduling system with performance- based access

Granted: February 13, 2024
Patent Number: 11900284
This disclosure provides systems, methods and apparatuses for scheduling tasks in an electronic system. In some implementations, a dynamic scheduling system allows performance-based access to a task schedule. In distributing tasks to be completed, the dynamic scheduling system prioritizes resources that are more proficient at completing the tasks over resources that are less proficient. For example, resources that are more proficient may receive higher-priority access to the task…

Detection of abnormal application programming interface (API) sessions including a sequence of API requests

Granted: February 13, 2024
Patent Number: 11900179
A computer-implemented method includes receiving training data including a plurality of API requests from a plurality of client devices. The method includes generating a plurality of permissible API sessions based on the training data. The method includes applying a sequence embedding technique to the plurality of permissible API sessions to generate a plurality of embeddings. The method includes applying a dimensionality reduction technique to the plurality of embeddings to generate a…