Patents by Inventor Michael W. West

Michael W. West 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).

  • Publication number: 20240091442
    Abstract: Methods, devices and systems are disclosed for inter-app communications between software applications on a mobile communications device. In one aspect, a computer-readable medium on a mobile computing device comprising an inter-application communication data structure to facilitate transitioning and distributing data between software applications in a shared app group for an operating system of the mobile computing device includes a scheme field of the data structure providing a scheme id associated with a target software app to transition to from a source software app, wherein the scheme id is listed on a scheme list stored with the source software app; and a payload field of the data structure providing data and/or an identification where to access data in a shared file system accessible to the software applications in the shared app group, wherein the payload field is encrypted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Inventors: Gary A. MORRIS, Scott M. BELLIVEAU, Esteban CABRERA, JR., Anna Leigh DAVIS, Rian W. DRAEGER, Laura J. DUNN, Timothy Joseph GOLDSMITH, Hari HAMPAPURAM, Christopher Robert HANNEMANN, Apurv Ullas KAMATH, Katherine Yerre KOEHLER, Patrick Wile MCBRIDE, Michael Robert MENSINGER, Francis William PASCUAL, Philip Mansiel PELLOUCHOUD, Nicholas POLYTARIDIS, Philip Thomas PUPA, Kevin SHOEMAKER, Brian Christopher SMITH, Benjamin Elrod WEST, Atiim Joseph WILEY
  • Patent number: 9525702
    Abstract: Methods, system, and media for determining similar malware samples are disclosed. Two or more malware samples are received and analyzed to extract information from the two or more malware samples. The extracted information is converted to a plurality of sets of strings. A similarity between the two or more malware samples is determined based on the plurality of the sets of strings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2016
    Assignee: Cyberpoint International LLC
    Inventors: Charles Cabot, Rebecca A. Borbely, Michael W. West, Mark V. Raugas
  • Publication number: 20160173516
    Abstract: Methods, system, and media for detecting malware are disclosed. A network may be monitored for a configured time interval collecting all of or some of the network traffic or samples of the network traffic. Feature vectors may be extracted from the network traffic resulting in feature vectors. One or more machine learning models may be applied to the feature vectors producing a score. The score may indicate the presence of malware or the presence of a particular type of malware. One or more scores obtained by applying learning models may be fused by another machine learning model into a resulting score. A threshold value may be calculated to accompany a score indicating the likelihood that the traffic sample indicates the presence of malware and the likely effectiveness of planned remediation effort. An alert may be generated from the score and the threshold when the threshold is exceeded.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2016
    Publication date: June 16, 2016
    Inventors: Mark V. Raugas, Rebecca A. Borbely, Michael W. West, James L. Ulrich
  • Publication number: 20160127388
    Abstract: Methods, system, and media for determining similar malware samples are disclosed. Two or more malware samples are received and analyzed to extract information from the two or more malware samples. The extracted information is converted to a plurality of sets of strings. A similarity between the two or more malware samples is determined based on the plurality of the sets of strings.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2015
    Publication date: May 5, 2016
    Inventors: Charles Cabot, Rebecca A. Borbely, Michael W. West, Mark V. Raugas
  • Patent number: 9288220
    Abstract: Methods, system, and media for detecting malware are disclosed. A network may be monitored to collect samples of the network traffic. Feature vectors may be extracted from the sampled network traffic. One or more machine learning models may be applied to the feature vectors to produce a score indicative of the presence of a particular type of malware. One or more scores obtained by applying the machine learning models may be fused by another machine learning model into a resulting score. A threshold value may be calculated to accompany a score indicating the likelihood that the traffic sample indicates the presence of malware and the likely effectiveness of planned remediation effort. An alert may be generated from the score and the threshold when the threshold is acceded.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2016
    Assignee: CyberPoint International LLC
    Inventors: Mark V. Raugas, Rebecca A. Borbely, Michael W. West, James L. Ulrich
  • Patent number: 9197665
    Abstract: Methods, system, and media for determining similar malware samples are disclosed. Two or more malware samples are received and analyzed to extract information from the two or more malware samples. The extracted information is converted to a plurality of sets of strings. A similarity between the two or more malware samples is determined based on the plurality of the sets of strings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2015
    Inventors: Charles Cabot, Rebecca A. Borbely, Michael W. West, Mark V. Raugas
  • Patent number: 7220490
    Abstract: The low modulus polyimide adhesive compositions of the present invention contain a low modulus polyimidosiloxane polymer, a thermosetting substantially-non-halogenated epoxy (optionally including an epoxy catalyst), a plasticizer, an insoluble halogen-free flame-retardant filler, and optionally an adhesion promoter. The adhesive can be applied upon (or incorporated into) flexible circuits using a relatively low lamination temperature, generally no higher than 200, 190, 180, 175, 170, 165, 160, 155, or 150° C. The adhesive is generally resistant to unwanted curl even in cases where the adhesive polyimide and the base film polyimide have a coefficient of linear thermal expansions (measured between 50° C. and 250° C.) that differ by more than 10, 15, 20 25, or 30 ppm/° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2007
    Assignee: E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company
    Inventors: Thomas E. Dueber, Michael W. West, Brian C. Auman, Robert V. Kasowski
  • Patent number: 4762273
    Abstract: An electronic water faucet is disclosed, including means for detecting the presence of an object near an outlet of said faucet and determining whether or not noise or reflected light is being sensed. The faucet includes a swivelable spout relative to a main body. Position sensing means for sensing the angular position of the spout are included. The angular positions which the spout can assume are designed to various zones, and those zones are programmed to be active or not active in an automatic mode of operation of the faucet. A rotary mixing valve for supplying and mixing hot and cold water using a cam and deformable seal is used to partially seal hot and cold water inlets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 1987
    Date of Patent: August 9, 1988
    Assignee: Stephen O. Gregory
    Inventors: Stephen O. Gregory, Michael W. West, James L. Wolf, Daniel V. Sallis
  • Patent number: D606447
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2009
    Assignee: Source, LLC
    Inventors: Michael W. West, Ryan Graf