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 1):
A computer vulnerability discovery system comprising:\n a central controller connected to one or more target systems via a computer network; a plurality of researcher computer network connections for a plurality of researcher computers, wherein each researcher computer network connection is for sending and receiving data between a researcher computer of the plurality of researcher computers and the central controller, wherein the each researcher computer provides a user interface to an invited researcher, wherein an invited researcher is a person or organization selected to participate in one or more computer vulnerability research projects related to the one or more target systems, wherein the central controller is capable of monitoring at least some communications between the researcher computer and at least some of the one or more target systems; storage for tracking, 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; storage for access credentials for providing an assigned researcher computer access to the central controller and/or the particular target system; a monitoring computer process to monitor networked data communications between the assigned 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 an evaluation computer process to 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): 0.2955417208429204
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5474743967303011
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.3207349884316585
- Mean Citation Score: 364.662044
- Max Citation Score: 397.62262
- Similarity Product: 361.9391451988387

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