Patents by Inventor Gabriel G. Infante-Lopez

Gabriel G. Infante-Lopez has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 11916934
    Abstract: Example methods disclosed herein to determine whether a first monitored device is compromised include determining a first entropy value for the first monitored device based on a first number of unique event identifiers included in log entries obtained for the first monitored device, the log entries associated with a first time window. Disclosed example methods also include determining a second entropy value for the first monitored device based on numbers of unique event identifiers included in corresponding groups of log entries obtained for respective ones of a plurality of monitored devices including the first monitored device, the groups of log entries associated with the first time window. Disclosed example methods further include determining whether the first monitored device is compromised based on the first entropy value and the second entropy value, and performing an action in response to a determination that the first monitored device is compromised.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: MUSARUBRA US LLC
    Inventors: Peter Thayer, Gabriel G. Infante-Lopez, Leandro J. Ferrado, Alejandro Houspanossian
  • Patent number: 11757894
    Abstract: Technologies for a distributed Internet of Things (IoT) system including a plurality of IoT devices are disclosed. An example first Internet of Things (IoT) device includes at least one processor to execute instructions to access a first message transmitted by a second IoT device, the first IoT device and second IoT device communicatively coupled via a direct communication, identify that the first message is indicative of an administrative event, the administrative event associated with a function of one or more of the first IoT device or the second IoT device, update a status of a system of IoT devices based on the administrative event, the system of IoT devices including the first IoT device and the second IoT device, and send a second message indicative of the administrative event to a universal bus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: MCAFEE, LLC
    Inventors: Gabriel G. Infante-Lopez, Robert J. Firby
  • Publication number: 20220353280
    Abstract: Example methods disclosed herein to determine whether a first monitored device is compromised include determining a first entropy value for the first monitored device based on a first number of unique event identifiers included in log entries obtained for the first monitored device, the log entries associated with a first time window. Disclosed example methods also include determining a second entropy value for the first monitored device based on numbers of unique event identifiers included in corresponding groups of log entries obtained for respective ones of a plurality of monitored devices including the first monitored device, the groups of log entries associated with the first time window. Disclosed example methods further include determining whether the first monitored device is compromised based on the first entropy value and the second entropy value, and performing an action in response to a determination that the first monitored device is compromised.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2022
    Publication date: November 3, 2022
    Inventors: Peter Thayer, Gabriel G. Infante-Lopez, Leandro J. Ferrado, Alejandro Houspanossian
  • Patent number: 11361092
    Abstract: A computing device and method for contextual access, including the computing device to implement a traversal of a property graph of data. The traversal includes using contextual information to determine whether to grant access to vertices of the property graph and to outgoing edges of the vertices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventor: Gabriel G. Infante-Lopez
  • Patent number: 11336665
    Abstract: Example methods disclosed herein to determine whether a first monitored device is compromised include determining a first entropy value for the first monitored device based on a first number of unique event identifiers included in log entries obtained for the first monitored device, the log entries associated with a first time window. Disclosed example methods also include determining a second entropy value for the first monitored device based on numbers of unique event identifiers included in corresponding groups of log entries obtained for respective ones of a plurality of monitored devices including the first monitored device, the groups of log entries associated with the first time window. Disclosed example methods further include determining whether the first monitored device is compromised based on the first entropy value and the second entropy value, and performing an action in response to a determination that the first monitored device is compromised.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: Musarubra US LLC
    Inventors: Peter Thayer, Gabriel G. Infante-Lopez, Leandro J. Ferrado, Alejandro Houspanossian
  • Publication number: 20220030017
    Abstract: Example apparatus disclosed herein to perform a cybersecurity investigation are to generate an information graph based on a set of information seeker tools in response to detection of a threat alert in a monitored network, and search the information graph for a reference pattern associated with a cybersecurity threat. Disclosed example apparatus are also to, in response to detection of a portion of the reference pattern in the information graph, (i) select a first one of information seeker tools associated with a first input-output relationship capable of expanding the portion of the reference pattern to complete the reference pattern, and (ii) execute the first one of information seeker tools to complete the reference pattern associated with the cybersecurity threat.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2021
    Publication date: January 27, 2022
    Inventors: Gabriel G. Infante-Lopez, Hemang Satish Nadkarni, Pablo Andres Michelis, Francisco Matias Cuenca-Acuna, Matias L. Marenchino, Maria Torino
  • Patent number: 11200318
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus to detect adversarial malware are disclosed. An example adversarial malware detector includes a machine learning engine to classify a first feature representation representing features of a program as benign or malware, a feature perturber to, when the first feature representation is classified as benign, remove a first one of the features to form a second feature representation, and a decider to classify the program as adversarial malware when the machine learning engine classifies the second feature representation as malware.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignee: McAfee, LLC
    Inventors: Yonghong Huang, Raj Vardhan, Celeste R. Fralick, Gabriel G. Infante-Lopez, Dattatraya Kulkarni, Srikanth Nalluri, Sonam Bothra
  • Publication number: 20210367947
    Abstract: Technologies for a distributed Internet of Things (IoT) system including a plurality of IoT devices are disclosed. An example first Internet of Things (IoT) device includes at least one processor to execute instructions to access a first message transmitted by a second IoT device, the first IoT device and second IoT device communicatively coupled via a direct communication, identify that the first message is indicative of an administrative event, the administrative event associated with a function of one or more of the first IoT device or the second IoT device, update a status of a system of IoT devices based on the administrative event, the system of IoT devices including the first IoT device and the second IoT device, and send a second message indicative of the administrative event to a universal bus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2021
    Publication date: November 25, 2021
    Inventors: Gabriel G. Infante-Lopez, Robert J. Firby
  • Patent number: 11165781
    Abstract: Technologies for a distributed Internet of Things (IoT) system including a plurality of IoT devices are disclosed. An example IoT device includes an input device to receive an input from a user and a processor to determine if a pattern is recognized in the input. The example IoT device also includes a communication circuit to: in response to a determination that a pattern is not recognized in the input, communicate a first message indicative of the input over a universal bus; and in response to a determination that a pattern is recognized in the input, communicate a second message indicative of the input directly to another IoT device without using the universal bus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: McAfee, LLC
    Inventors: Gabriel G. Infante-Lopez, Robert J. Firby
  • Patent number: 11140179
    Abstract: Example apparatus disclosed herein to perform a cybersecurity investigation include a graph generator to iteratively generate an information graph based on investigative data in response to detection of a threat alert in a monitored network, the investigative data accessed from information sources based on a set of information seeker tools, the information graph generated based on a graph schema specifying possible relationships between the information seeker tools. Example apparatus also include a pattern recognizer to traverse the information graph to identify a path in the information graph matching a pattern from the graph schema associated with a cybersecurity threat. Example apparatus further include a user interface to output the path identified in the information graph and the cybersecurity threat to an output device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: Musarubra US LLC
    Inventors: Gabriel G. Infante-Lopez, Hemang Satish Nadkarni, Pablo Andres Michelis, Francisco Matias Cuenca-Acuna, Matias L. Marenchino, Maria Torino
  • Patent number: 10853370
    Abstract: Systems, apparatuses and methods may provide a query response. A value of a time-to-live (TTL) for data associated with a computation unit may be determined, wherein the computation unit may disallow access to the data when the TTL is expired. Additionally, a determination may be made whether the data associated with the computation unit satisfies a query. Also, a query response may be generated including the data associated with the computation unit that satisfies the query. In one example, a context for the data associated with the computation unit may be determined, wherein the computation unit may disallow access to the data based on the context. Data may be represented as a network of computation units which may provide data with a TTL that is contextual, which may be handled in a massively distributed fashion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventor: Gabriel G. Infante-Lopez
  • Publication number: 20200210575
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus to detect adversarial malware are disclosed. An example adversarial malware detector includes a machine learning engine to classify a first feature representation representing features of a program as benign or malware, a feature perturber to, when the first feature representation is classified as benign, remove a first one of the features to form a second feature representation, and a decider to classify the program as adversarial malware when the machine learning engine classifies the second feature representation as malware.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2018
    Publication date: July 2, 2020
    Inventors: Yonghong Huang, Raj Vardhan, Celeste R. Fralick, Gabriel G. Infante-Lopez, Dattatraya Kulkarni, Srikanth Nalluri, Sonam Bothra
  • Publication number: 20200106786
    Abstract: Example methods disclosed herein to determine whether a first monitored device is compromised include determining a first entropy value for the first monitored device based on a first number of unique event identifiers included in log entries obtained for the first monitored device, the log entries associated with a first time window. Disclosed example methods also include determining a second entropy value for the first monitored device based on numbers of unique event identifiers included in corresponding groups of log entries obtained for respective ones of a plurality of monitored devices including the first monitored device, the groups of log entries associated with the first time window. Disclosed example methods further include determining whether the first monitored device is compromised based on the first entropy value and the second entropy value, and performing an action in response to a determination that the first monitored device is compromised.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2019
    Publication date: April 2, 2020
    Inventors: Peter Thayer, Gabriel G. Infante-Lopez, Leandro J. Ferrado, Alejandro Houspanossian
  • Patent number: 10440037
    Abstract: Detecting a malware attack includes monitoring an event log of a first device, wherein the event log identifies events indicating that the first device is likely compromised, determining an expected rate of log entries during a time window, identifying that an actual rate of log entries during the time window satisfies a threshold, determining, in response to the identifying, that the first device is a compromised device, and performing an action in response to determining that the first device is a compromised device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2019
    Assignee: McAfee, LLC
    Inventors: Peter Thayer, Gabriel G. Infante-Lopez, Leandro J. Ferrado, Alejandro Houspanossian
  • Publication number: 20190297086
    Abstract: Technologies for a distributed Internet of Things (IoT) system including a plurality of IoT devices are disclosed. An example IoT device includes an input device to receive an input from a user and a processor to determine if a pattern is recognized in the input. The example IoT device also includes a communication circuit to: in response to a determination that a pattern is not recognized in the input, communicate a first message indicative of the input over a universal bus; and in response to a determination that a pattern is recognized in the input, communicate a second message indicative of the input directly to another IoT device without using the universal bus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2019
    Publication date: September 26, 2019
    Inventors: Gabriel G. Infante-Lopez, Robert J. Firby
  • Patent number: 10375079
    Abstract: Technologies for a distributed Internet of Things (IoT) system are disclosed. Several IoT devices may form a peer-to-peer network without requiring a central server. Information may be stored in a distributed manner in the distributed IoT system, allowing for storing information without transmitting it to a remote server, which may be costly and introduce security or privacy risks. Each IoT device of the distributed IoT system includes a machine learning algorithm that is capable of uncovering patterns in the input of the distributed IoT system, such as a pattern of user inputs in certain situations, and the distributed IoT system may adaptively anticipate a user's intentions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2019
    Assignee: McAfee, LLC
    Inventors: Gabriel G. Infante-Lopez, Robert J. Firby
  • Patent number: 10262077
    Abstract: Methods and systems for pattern matching and relationship discovery in graphs. The graph may be adapted as an actor graph, where vertices may include processing functionality and executable logic. The vertices of an actor graph may send messages to other vertices to which they are connected. A first vertex may receive an initial regular expression. The first vertex may evaluate which of its edges and/or respective vertices connected to these edges satisfy a first condition in the initial regular expression. If the first condition is met by an edge and or its connected vertex, the initial regular expression may be modified, if necessary, to reflect that the first condition has been met. The modified expression is then communicated to the connected vertex. The identity of the edge and/or the connected vertex may be recorded. A subsequent vertex may then proceed in a similar manner as the first vertex.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2019
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventor: Gabriel G. Infante-Lopez
  • Publication number: 20180288074
    Abstract: Detecting a malware attack includes monitoring an event log of a first device, wherein the event log identifies events indicating that the first device is likely compromised, determining an expected rate of log entries during a time window, identifying that an actual rate of log entries during the time window satisfies a threshold, determining, in response to the identifying, that the first device is a compromised device, and performing an action in response to determining that the first device is a compromised device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2017
    Publication date: October 4, 2018
    Inventors: Peter Thayer, Gabriel G. Infante-Lopez, Leandro J. Ferrado, Alejandro Houspanossian
  • Publication number: 20180007055
    Abstract: Technologies for a distributed Internet of Things (IoT) system are disclosed. Several IoT devices may form a peer-to-peer network without requiring a central server. Information may be stored in a distributed manner in the distributed IoT system, allowing for storing information without transmitting it to a remote server, which may be costly and introduce security or privacy risks. Each IoT device of the distributed IoT system includes a machine learning algorithm that is capable of uncovering patterns in the input of the distributed IoT system, such as a pattern of user inputs in certain situations, and the distributed IoT system may adaptively anticipate a user's intentions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2016
    Publication date: January 4, 2018
    Inventors: Gabriel G. Infante-Lopez, Robert J. Firby
  • Publication number: 20170091470
    Abstract: A computing device and method for contextual access, including the computing device to implement a traversal of a property graph of data. The traversal includes using contextual information to determine whether to grant access to vertices of the property graph and to outgoing edges of the vertices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2015
    Publication date: March 30, 2017
    Applicant: INTEL CORPORATION
    Inventor: Gabriel G. Infante-Lopez