Patents
US 10754950 B2: Entity resolution-based malicious file detection
- Granted
- 2020-08-25
- Filed
- 2017-11-30 application 15827211
- Type
- Utility · 20 claims
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Abstract
A method includes monitoring system call invocations made to an operating system of a computer system by an application as the application renders a digital file. The method automatically featurizes the system call invocations into a set of features corresponding to the digital file, and compares each feature set against benign features of a set of known benign features. The comparing includes, for each feature of the set of features, applying entity resolution between the feature and benign feature(s) of the set of known benign features to find a correlation between the feature and a benign feature representing a common semantic interaction between the application and the operating system. The method identifies a number of features that do not correlate to the benign features, and determines maliciousness of the digital file based on the identified number of features that do not correlate to the benign features.
Source: PVGPATDIS, file of 2026-04-10 (ipg200825.xml).
Assignees
| Assignee | Type | Place | Also on furp.org | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Assured Information Security, Inc. 24 patents | US company or organization | Rome, NY | Assured Information Security, Inc. Form D issuer EXACT high confidence: identical full name and state | PVGPATDIS, file of 2026-04-10 |
Inventors
| Inventor | Place | Patents | Person page | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Daniel Scofield | Portland, OR | 6 | PVGPATDIS, file of 2026-04-10 | |
| Craig Miles | Portland, OR | 6 | PVGPATDIS, file of 2026-04-10 |
CPC categories
| Subclass | Category | First group | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| G06F | Electric digital data processing | G06F21/566 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-01-09 | Government interest Confirmatory license | ASSURED INFORMATION SECURITY, INC. signed 2023-01-06 | GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES AS REPRESENTED BY THE SECRETARY OF THE AIR FORCE ROME, NY | 62307/426 | ECORSEXC, file of 2026-09-25 |
| 2017-11-30 | Assignment Assignment of assignor's interest | MILES, CRAIG signed 2017-11-29 SCOFIELD, DANIEL signed 2017-11-29 | ASSURED INFORMATION SECURITY, INC. ROME, NY | 44261/911 | ECORSEXC, file of 2026-09-25 |
Documents recorded with the USPTO Assignment Recordation Branch that list this patent. A security interest is a lender’s claim on the patent as collateral; a release ends it.
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