Patents
US 10523698 B2: Data surveillance system with patterns of centroid drift
- Granted
- 2019-12-31
- Filed
- 2018-08-08 application 16058145
- Type
- Utility · 20 claims
- Elsewhere
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Abstract
Data surveillance techniques are presented for the detection of security issues, especially of the kind where privileged data may be stolen by steganographic, data manipulation or any form of exfiltration attempts. Such attempts may be made by rogue users or admins from the inside of a network, or from outside hackers who are able to intrude into the network and impersonate themselves as legitimate users. The system and methods use a triangulation process whereby analytical results pertaining to data protocol, user-behavior and packet content are combined to establish a baseline for the data. Subsequent incoming data is then scored and compared against the baseline to detect any security anomalies. A centroid representing the normal population of the data packets is identified. The movement or drift of the centroid in response to various events is measured and analyzed. This allows the system to evolve its baseline over time thereby preventing issuing false positives for such events.
Source: PVGPATDIS, file of 2026-04-10 (ipg191231.xml).
Assignees
| Assignee | Type | Place | Also on furp.org | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flying Cloud Technologies, Inc. 10 patents | US company or organization | Polson, MT | PVGPATDIS, file of 2026-04-10 |
Inventors
| Inventor | Place | Patents | Person page | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brian P. Christian | Sioux Falls, SD | 13 | PVGPATDIS, file of 2026-04-10 |
CPC categories
| Subclass | Category | First group | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| H04L | Transmission of digital information, e.g. telegraphic communication | H04L63/1425 | PVGPATDIS, file of 2026-04-10 |
| G06N | Computing arrangements based on specific computational models | G06N20/00 | PVGPATDIS, file of 2026-04-10 |
Cooperative Patent Classification, as currently assigned (one row per subclass).
Assignments and security interests
| Recorded | What | From | To | Reel/frame | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-12-18 | Assignment Assignment of assignor's interest | CHRISTIAN, BRIAN P. signed 2018-12-13 | FLYING CLOUD TECHNOLOGIES, INC. POLSON, MT | 47808/285 | ECORSEXC, file of 2026-09-25 |
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