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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120131671 | Securing An Access Provider To secure an access provider, communications to/from the access provider are monitored for a partially-completed connection transaction. Detected partially-completed connection transactions are terminated when they remain in existence for a period of time that exceeds a... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120131669 | Determining whether method of computer program is a validator An illegal pattern and a computer program having a method are received. The method has one or more return statements, and a number of basic blocks. The method is normalized so that each return statement of the target method relating to the illegal pattern returns a cons... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120131670 | Global Variable Security Analysis A method includes determining selected global variables in a program for which flow of the selected global variables through the program is to be tracked. The selected global variables are less than all the global variables in the program. The method includes using a st... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120131668 | Policy-Driven Detection And Verification Of Methods Such As Sanitizers And Validators A method includes performing a static analysis on a program having sources and sinks to track string flow from the sources to the sinks. The static analysis includes, for string variables in the program that begin at sources, computing grammar of all possible string val... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120110664 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR AVOIDING DENIAL OF SERVICE IN WEB-SERVICE BASED SYSTEMS The disclosure relates to a method for identifying and preventing propagation of a DOS attack on a WS-Notification NotificationBroker by inspecting the subscription request. If the address of the NotificationConsumer identified by the subscription request is equivalent ... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120109784 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATING PROTECTION OF MEDIA FILES FOR DOWNLOAD Method and apparatus for providing copyright protection of downloaded media files (audio, video or images) is provided. The method and apparatus specifically comprise wrapping the copyrighted media file into an executable wrapper along with information about the media, ... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120084857 | DEVICE SECURITY SYSTEM A computer-implemented method may include identifying a security event condition associated with a device. One or more security rules may be identified for execution based on the device and the identified security event condition, wherein the one or more security rules ... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120084858 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETECTION OF ABERRANT NETWORK BEHAVIOR BY CLIENTS OF A NETWORK ACCESS GATEWAY Embodiments of systems and methods for detecting aberrant network behavior are disclosed. One embodiment comprises a network interface over which network communications are received from a client. These network communications can then be analyzed to determine if aberran... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120072985 | MANAGING SERVICES IN A CLOUD COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT What is provided are a system and method which enables an organization or user to manage computational services in a cloud computing network for security, compliance and governance. The management including creating a trusted virtual network including encrypted data sto... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120072984 | REGULATING ATOMIC MEMORY OPERATIONS TO PREVENT DENIAL OF SERVICE ATTACK In one embodiment, the present invention includes a method for identifying a termination sequence for an atomic memory operation executed by a first thread, associating a timer with the first thread, and preventing the first thread from execution of a memory cluster ope... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120072983 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PRIVACY-ENHANCED CYBER DATA FUSION USING TEMPORAL-BEHAVIORAL AGGREGATION AND ANALYSIS A method of determining, within a deployed environment over a data communication network, network threats and their associated behaviors. The method includes the steps of acquiring sensor data that identifies a specific contact, normalizing the acquired sensor data to g... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120072982 | DETECTING POTENTIAL FRAUDULENT ONLINE USER ACTIVITY One or more techniques and/or systems are disclosed herein for identifying potentially fraudulent use of user generated content (UGC) for an online activity by a user. Server-based information and browser-based information associated with the user is identified and used... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120072986 | METHODS FOR DETECTING AND CLASSIFYING SIGNALS TRANSMITTED OVER A RADIO FREQUENCY SPECTRUM A method for classifying a signal is disclosed. The method can be used by a station or stations within a network to classify the signal as non-cooperative (NC) or a target signal. The method performs classification over channels within a frequency spectrum. The percenta... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120054863 | Securing a Storage Element for a Binary Datum, Control Register and Chip Card Securing a storage element for a binary datum, control register and chip card. This element (60) for storing a binary datum (D) inputs a signal representative of said binary datum, said storage to be carried out when an enable signal (ENA) is at a first predeterm... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120054841 | APPLICATION REGISTRATION, AUTHORIZATION, AND VERIFICATION A system that includes a memory to store registration information for a particular application hosted by a particular user device, where the registration information includes context information regarding the particular user device and an integrity code based on credent... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120054857 | APPLICATION SELECTION USING CURRENT DETECTION INTELLIGENCE Selecting one or more applications from the plurality of similar or near redundant applications to activate. A method includes retrieving information about current characteristics of one or more applications. The method further includes retrieving information about a cu... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120054299 | SYSTEM FOR AND METHOD OF VERIFYING PACKAGES The system and method may include identifying manifest data associated with a package to be developed on a package development system, receiving the package from the package development system via a first network, comparing the manifest data to the package to determine ... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120054864 | SECURITY METHODS AND SYSTEMS The present invention describes methods for improving security when accessing applications and other executable programs. In one exemplary method, a user is warned if an application that has never been previously run is being launched by the user. Other methods, as well... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120054862 | Storage Device with Website Trust Indication A portable storage device can comprise a web page confidence module and a device controller. The web page confidence module may be configured to receive a web page address and determine a trust level status associated with the web page address. The device controller may... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120054861 | SECURE THIRD PARTY SCRIPTING ENVIRONMENT An illustrative embodiment of a computer-implemented method for securing a third party scripting environment receives a document to form a source input, defines a schema with functionality of an underlying target script language, applies the schema to the source input t... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120054859 | ADAPTIVE ELECTRONIC MESSAGE SCANNING The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for adaptive electronic message scanning. Embodiments of the invention relate to dynamically (and potentially unpredictably) varying the depth/thoroughness of classifying electronic message... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120054858 | ADAPTIVELY SELECTING ELECTRONIC MESSAGE SCANNING RULES The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for adaptively selecting electronic message scanning rules. Embodiments of the invention relate to dynamically (and potentially unpredictably) varying the depth/thoroughness of classifying ... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120054860 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETECTING COVERT DNS TUNNELS Systems and methods are disclosed for detecting covert DNS tunnels using n-grams. The majority of legitimate DNS requests originate from network content itself, for example, through hyperlinks in websites. So, comparing data from incoming network communications to a hos... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120054865 | Device and Method for Preventing Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) Address Being Fraudulently Attacked A device and method for preventing Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) address being fraudulently attacked are disclosed in present invention, and the method comprises: detecting a Neighbor Solicitation (NS) data packet; judging whether the source address of the data pac... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120047550 | Method and System for Device Integrity Authentication A networked device performs integrity authentication by determining, using a processor, a measured integrity value of the device. The measured integrity value is compared by the processor to an embedded integrity value of the device. Application of a policy to the devic... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120047173 | Method of and Apparatus for Identifying Requestors of Machine-Generated Requests to Resolve a Textual Identifier Methods and systems provide tracking or logging requests to resolve non-existent textual identifiers and classifying the textual identifier into a predefined set of taxonomical categories to support the detection of requestors of machine generated requests to resolve te... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120047576 | Hardware-Implemented Hypervisor for Root-of-Trust Monitoring and Control of Computer System A system and method for modifying a processor system with hypervisor hardware to provide protection against malware. The processor system is assumed to be of a type having at least a CPU and a high-speed bus for providing data links between the CPU, other bus masters, a... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120047578 | Method and System for Device Integrity Authentication Device integrity authentication is performed by receiving, at a second device, data from a first device. A determination is made at the second device as to whether at least a portion of the data is associated with a protected datatype. A measured integrity value of the ... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120047577 | SAFE URL SHORTENING A safe URL shortening service creates a short URL from any valid long URL. At resolution time, the service determines if the resulting URL points to a known bad, known good, or unknown site. Depending on the determination results, the service may redirect a user to the ... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120042382 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MONITORING AND ANALYZING MULTIPLE INTERFACES AND MULTIPLE PROTOCOLS The present invention is a system and method for providing security for a mobile device by analyzing data being transmitted or received by multiple types of networks. The invention can provide security for many types of network interfaces on a mobile device, including: ... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120042380 | SECURE MODULE AND INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS A secure module includes a generating unit that executes generation processing of generating a scanning program that causes scan processing, which generates unique code for a program under test, to be executed at a connected device and further executes update processing... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120042381 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING WHETHER DOMAIN NAMES ARE LEGITIMATE OR MALICIOUS A system and method for determining whether at least one domain is legitimate or malicious by obtaining passive DNS query information, using the passive DNS query information to measure statistical features of known malicious domain names and known legitimate domain nam... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120030758 | Automated Diversity Using Return Oriented Programming A method of automatically creating functionally and structurally diverse equivalent copies of software executables using return oriented programming for the purpose of passing through a filter and other purposes includes starting with a program and a target runtime envi... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120030757 | LOGIN INITIATED SCANNING OF COMPUTING DEVICES Embodiments of the invention relate to systems, methods, and computer program products for login initiated remote scanning of computer devices. The present invention detects login to the network via access management systems. The login data provides information that ide... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120030750 | System and Method for Network Level Protection Against Malicious Software A method in one example implementation includes receiving information related to a network access attempt on a first computing device with the information identifying a software program file associated with the network access attempt. The method also includes evaluating... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120023572 | Malicious Attack Response System and Associated Method A system and method for detecting and identifying intruders in a computer network environment by providing a network traffic evaluation and simulation module at the interface between a protected network and external traffic source. The evaluation and simulation module i... | 01/26/2012 |
| 20120023576 | INSIDER THREAT CORRELATION TOOL Systems and methods for calculating threat scores for individuals within an organization or domain are provided. Aspects of the invention relate to computer-implemented methods that form a predictive threat rating for user accounts. In one implementation, a threat score... | 01/26/2012 |
| 20120023394 | Method and apparatus for context-aware output escaping using dynamic content marking A technique to provide runtime output sanitization filtering of web application content that contains multiple contexts in which dynamic output is included. To facilitate this operation, dynamically-generated content is prepared for sanitization in advance, preferably b... | 01/26/2012 |
| 20120023578 | MALICIOUS CODE DETECTION A device includes a pipeline and a detector that are both implemented at least in hardware. Data is moved through the pipeline to perform processing of the data unrelated to detection of malicious code. The detector detects the malicious code within the data as the data... | 01/26/2012 |
| 20120023395 | Method and apparatus for dynamic content marking to facilitate context-aware output escaping A technique to provide runtime output sanitization filtering of web application content that contains multiple contexts in which dynamic output is included. To facilitate this operation, dynamically-generated content is prepared for sanitization in advance, preferably b... | 01/26/2012 |
