PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15873773
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["726", "025000"]

Abstract:
In one aspect, the disclosure provides: A method comprising: inviting a distributed plurality of researchers to participate in one or more computer vulnerability research projects directed to identifying computer vulnerabilities of one or more networks and/or computers that are owned or operated by a third party; assessing reputation and skills of one or more of the researchers, and accepting a subset of the researchers who have a positive reputation and sufficient skills to perform the investigations of the computer vulnerabilities; assigning a particular computer vulnerability research project, relating to a particular network under test, to a particular researcher from among the subset of the researchers; using a computer that is logically interposed between the particular researcher and the particular network under test, monitoring communications between the particular researcher and the particular network under test, wherein the communications relate to attempting to identify a candidate security vulnerability of the particular network under test; validating a report of the candidate security vulnerability of the particular network under test that is received from the particular researcher; determining and providing an award to the particular researcher in response to successfully validating the report of the candidate security vulnerability of the particular network under test that is received from the particular researcher.

Claim (Index 14):
Non-transitory computer-readable media having stored thereon instructions executable by a processor able to read the non-transitory computer-readable media, the instructions comprising program code that, when executed by the processor, causes the processor to:\n transmit, from a central controller to a plurality of researcher computers via a computer network connecting the central controller to the plurality of researcher computers, a plurality of invitations for a plurality of invited researchers, each researcher computer providing a representation of the invitation to a respective invited researcher, wherein each invited researcher is a person or organization selected to participate in one or more computer vulnerability research projects related to one or more target systems, the one or more target systems connected to the central controller via a computer network, the central controller configured to monitor at least some communications between the researcher computer and at least some of the one or more target systems; track, at the central controller, assignment of a particular computer vulnerability research project of the one or more computer vulnerability research projects to an assigned researcher computer, to be operated by the invited researcher assigned to the particular computer vulnerability research project, wherein the particular computer vulnerability research project relates to a particular target system; provide the assigned researcher computer with access credentials for the central controller and/or the particular target system; monitor networked data communications between the researcher computer and the particular target system, wherein the networked data communications include communications that are usable to identify security vulnerabilities of the particular target system; and determine a candidate security vulnerability of the particular target system based on a candidate security vulnerability report received from the assigned researcher computer resulting from the invited researcher's use of the assigned researcher computer to interact with the particular target system.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.6
- Patent Class: 726.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15161143', '14849398', '14271110', '14271088', '15625974']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.2962185837558687
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5464882653102769
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.3212455519113095
- Mean Citation Score: 364.662044
- Max Citation Score: 397.62262
- Similarity Product: 342.1341580568862

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 1
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 1
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

Dataset: test