Patents by Inventor Kyle Soska

Kyle Soska 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).

  • Securing a network device by automatically identifying files belonging to an application
    Patent number: 10579794
    Abstract: Securing a network device by automatically identifying files belonging to an application. In one embodiment, a method may include collecting file attributes for multiple files from multiple network devices, examining a hash of file contents of each of the multiple files to identify multiple unique files in the multiple files, summarizing the file attributes for each of the multiple unique files to generate a sketch of file attributes for each of the multiple unique files, clustering the multiple unique files into multiple applications, making a security action decision for one application of the multiple applications, and performing a security action on a network device based on the security action decision.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignee: SYMANTEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Christopher Gates, Kyle Soska, Kevin Alejandro Roundy