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Comic actor Danny Kaye received patent D166,807 for the co-design of "Blowout Toy or the Like". It's similar to one of those toys that unravels when you blow into at a birthday party except Kaye's has three blowouts going in different directions, not just one.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7681236 | Unauthorized access prevention system An unauthorized access prevention system that includes a search unit searching the flowing-in path of the unauthorized access to the services by a Web system disclosed by a user's ISP, a determination unit determining the place to implement a countermeasure for prot... | 03/16/2010 |
| 7681235 | Dynamic network protection A method for protecting a network from an attack includes measuring a property of traffic entering the network, and analyzing the property using at least one fuzzy logic algorithm in order to detect the attack. ... | 03/16/2010 |
| 7676841 | Network intrusion mitigation Described are methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for mitigating against a cyber attack on a network. An indication is received from an intrusion detection system that an event has occurred representing a threat to the network. Upon receiving... | 03/09/2010 |
| 7673341 | System and method of efficiently identifying and removing active malware from a computer The present invention provides a system, method, and computer-readable medium for identifying and removing active malware from a computer. Aspects of the present invention are included in a cleaner tool that may be obtained automatically with an update service or ma... | 03/02/2010 |
| 7661139 | System and method for detecting invalid access to computer network A method for detecting the invalid access to a computer network is disclosed. The method preferably operates in a computer network having computer servers operating on different operating systems and a plurality of computer devices. Each computer device is managed b... | 02/09/2010 |
| 7661138 | Finite state automaton compression A system and method for intrusion detection and prevention processing are described. One or more states of a finite state automaton (FSA) stored in a memory may be compressed to form compressed state information. The FSA may include a set of states and defined state... | 02/09/2010 |
| 7657937 | Method for customizing processing and response for intrusion prevention A method for customizing the response for network based intrusion prevention comprising of: 1) virtual proxying the application data to enable custom response 2) enhancing transport layer (TCP/IP) to enable selective processing and selective modification of the stre... | 02/02/2010 |
| 7657938 | Method and system for protecting computer networks by altering unwanted network data traffic Protecting computer networks by altering unwanted network data traffic. An Intrusion Protection System (IPS) or an Intrusion Detection System (IDS) can monitor network data traffic comprising byte information. This network security device analyzes network data traff... | 02/02/2010 |
| 7657939 | Computer security intrusion detection system for remote, on-demand users An intrusion detection system, and a related method and computer program product, for implementing intrusion detection in a remote, on-demand computing service environment in which one or more data processing hosts are made available to a remote on-demand user that ... | 02/02/2010 |
| 7657940 | System for SSL re-encryption after load balance A data center provides secure handling of HTTPS traffic using backend SSL decryption and encryption in combination with a load balancer such as a content switch. The load balancer detects HTTPS traffic and redirects it to an SSL offloading device for decryption and ... | 02/02/2010 |
| 7653942 | Unauthorized access prevention system An unauthorized access prevention system includes a countermeasure method determination unit determining a method of taking countermeasures to protect a destination against unauthorized access based on a rate indicating a probability that predetermined traffic is un... | 01/26/2010 |
| 7650638 | Network security monitoring system employing bi-directional communication The present invention provides for the receipt of a heartbeat message transmitted from a software agent within a host machine to a server-based agent manager. The server-based agent manager analyzes the heartbeat message to determine the identity of the sending soft... | 01/19/2010 |
| 7650639 | System and method for protecting a limited resource computer from malware The present invention is directed to a system and methods for protecting a limited resource computer from malware. Aspects of the present invention use antivirus software on a general purpose computer to prevent malware from infecting a limited resource computer. Ty... | 01/19/2010 |
| 7647635 | System and method to resolve an identity interactively A system and method for resolving an identity includes a security console, which displays security information regarding a secure network. The security information includes at least a first identity used to access the secure network. An operator selects the first id... | 01/12/2010 |
| 7644440 | Integrity ordainment and ascertainment of computer-executable instructions with consideration for execution context An implementation of a technology, described herein, for facilitating the protection of computer-executable instructions, such as software. At least one implementation, described herein, may generate integrity signatures of one or more program modules—which are se... | 01/05/2010 |
| 7644439 | Timing attacks against user logon and network I/O In a first aspect of the invention, method for classifying characters within a character string entered via a keyboard device includes logging interrupts, checking a time between interrupts, checking an interrupt duration and classifying the characters within the ch... | 01/05/2010 |
| 7631355 | System and method for identifying extreme behavior in elements of a network A system for identifying extreme behavior in elements of a network comprises a profiler and a collator. The profiler and the collator perform a method of identifying extreme behavior in the network elements. The profiler maintains one or more group profiles of netwo... | 12/08/2009 |
| 7627898 | Method and system for detecting infection of an operating system A method and system for detecting that a software system has been infected by software that attempts to hide properties related to the software system is provided. A detection system identifies that a suspect operating system has been infected by malware by comparin... | 12/01/2009 |
| 7624446 | Efficient signature packing for an intrusion detection system A flow assignment module identifies different network flows' characteristics and the characteristics of the signatures for the different network flows. Based on the identified characteristics, the flow assignment module assigns a network flow to a hash table among a... | 11/24/2009 |
| 7624445 | System for dynamic network reconfiguration and quarantine in response to threat conditions A method, apparatus, and computer instructions for responding to a threat condition within the network data processing system. A threat condition within the network data processing system is detected. At least one routing device is dynamically reconfigured within th... | 11/24/2009 |
| 7624447 | Using threshold lists for worm detection A computer-implemented method is provided for screening communication traffic. A list of one or more threshold pairs including respective first and second threshold values, each of which first threshold values is greater than one, are defined. Network traffic from a... | 11/24/2009 |
| 7624444 | Method and apparatus for detecting intrusions on a computer system A method of detecting intrusions on a computer includes the step of identifying an internet protocol field range describing fields within internet protocol packets received by a computer. A connectivity range is also established which describes a distribution of net... | 11/24/2009 |
| 7624448 | Intelligent intrusion detection system utilizing enhanced graph-matching of network activity with context data A method, system, and computer program product for utilizing a mapping of activity occurring at and between devices on a computer network to detect and prevent network intrusions. An enhanced graph matching intrusion detection system (eGMIDS) is provided that provid... | 11/24/2009 |
| 7620989 | Network testing methods and systems Network vulnerability testing methods, systems, devices, appliances and software products generate stateful and stateless network representative of network threats. The traffic is applied to a network or device under test, thereby to test the vulnerability of the ne... | 11/17/2009 |
| 7620988 | Protocol identification by heuristic content analysis A system and method are disclosed for providing network traffic identification. In one embodiment, the method comprises receiving pattern matching data; comparing the pattern matching data with a pattern; and determining whether the pattern matching data matches the... | 11/17/2009 |
| 7610623 | Integrity ordainment and ascertainment of computer-executable instructions with consideration for execution context An implementation of a technology, described herein, for facilitating the protection of computer-executable instructions, such as software. At least one implementation, described herein, may generate integrity signatures of one or more program modules—which are se... | 10/27/2009 |
| 7603710 | Method and system for detecting characteristics of a wireless network Characteristics about one or more wireless access devices in a wireless network, whether known or unknown entities, can be determined using a system and method according to the present invention. An observation is made of the activity over a Wireless Area Network (W... | 10/13/2009 |
| 7603709 | Method and apparatus for predicting and preventing attacks in communications networks In one embodiment of a method and apparatus for predicting and preventing network attacks, data is collected from network devices during an attack. The collected data is analyzed to identify specific temporal precursors of the attack. The future network activity is ... | 10/13/2009 |
| 7600257 | Method and an apparatus to perform multiple packet payloads analysis A method and an apparatus to perform multiple packet payload analysis have been disclosed. In one embodiment, the method includes receiving a plurality of data packets, each of the plurality of data packets containing a portion of a data pattern, determining whether... | 10/06/2009 |
| 7594268 | Preventing network discovery of a system services configuration Techniques are provided for preventing network discovery of a system services configuration. Preventing network discovery of a host system services configuration includes receiving a request from a remote address at a port on the host, observing a pattern associated... | 09/22/2009 |
| 7594267 | Stateful distributed event processing and adaptive security The invention provides method and apparatus for maintaining a networked computer system including first and second nodes and an event processing server, the method comprising the first and second nodes detecting changes in state, the event processing server receivin... | 09/22/2009 |
| 7594270 | Threat scoring system and method for intrusion detection security networks Embodiments of the invention provide a security expert system (SES) that automates intrusion detection analysis and threat discovery that can use fuzzy logic and forward-chaining inference engines to approximate human reasoning process. Embodiments of the SES can an... | 09/22/2009 |
| 7594269 | Platform-based identification of host software circumvention Hardware correlation of software performance statistics. Software may gather data relating to performance of a hardware resource. A hardware component of the system of the hardware resource may obtain data relating to the performance of the hardware resource from a ... | 09/22/2009 |
| 7587764 | Cryptic information and behavior generation for competitive environments An invention was developed to improve the performance and survivability of units in a competitive environment. Cryptic Command, Control, and Planning, and Management increases to apparent randomness of a plan from an opponent's perspective without increasing the ran... | 09/08/2009 |
| 7587762 | Intrusion detection system and network flow director method A system and related methods are disclosed for detecting the occurrence of an intrusion attack. A network device, such a probe, monitors traffic on a first network and converts the traffic to a format that is suitable for transmission on a second network. The conver... | 09/08/2009 |
| 7587763 | Systems and methods for detecting a security breach in a computer system The present invention provides systems and methods for applying hard-real-time capabilities in software to software security. For example, the systems and methods of the present invention allow a programmer to attach a periodic integrity check to an application so t... | 09/08/2009 |
| 7584507 | Architecture, systems and methods to detect efficiently DoS and DDoS attacks for large scale internet The present invention efficiently detects various DDoS attacks for large scale Internet with the temporal correlation of traffic flows on the two directions of a single link, the spatial correlation of DDoS attack traffic at different locations and powerful machine ... | 09/01/2009 |
| 7574741 | Method and system for preventing operating system detection A method and system for preventing the detection of an operating system by an intruder, the operating system installed on a host in a network, is provided. The intruder transmits a network probe for operating system detection. The network probe is identified and a r... | 08/11/2009 |
| 7571479 | Denial of service defense by proxy A method and apparatus which defends a host, which is coupled to the Internet, via a defensive firewall/router, against a denial of service attack. The technique includes periodically determining the status of the host, storing the status of the host, receiving at t... | 08/04/2009 |
| 7571480 | Presentation of correlated events as situation classes A method, computer program product, and apparatus for presenting data about security-related events that puts the data into a concise form is disclosed. Events are abstracted into a set data-type. Sets with common elements are grouped together, and summaries of the ... | 08/04/2009 |