Patents by Inventor Nikos Karampatziakis

Nikos Karampatziakis 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).

  • Graph-based malware classification based on file relationships
    Patent number: 8799190
    Abstract: A reliable automated malware classification approach with substantially low false positive rates is provided. Graph-based local and/or global file relationships are used to improve malware classification along with a feature selection algorithm. File relationships such as containing, creating, copying, downloading, modifying, etc. are used to assign malware probabilities and simultaneously reduce the false positive and false negative rates on executable files.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2014
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Jack W. Stokes, Nikos Karampatziakis, John C. Platt, Anil Francis Thomas, Adrian M. Marinescu
  • GRAPH-BASED CLASSIFICATION BASED ON FILE RELATIONSHIPS
    Publication number: 20120323829
    Abstract: A reliable automated malware classification approach with substantially low false positive rates is provided. Graph-based local and/or global file relationships are used to improve malware classification along with a feature selection algorithm. File relationships such as containing, creating, copying, downloading, modifying, etc. are used to assign malware probabilities and simultaneously reduce the false positive and false negative rates on executable files.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2011
    Publication date: December 20, 2012
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jack W. Stokes, Nikos Karampatziakis, John C. Platt, Anil Francis Thomas, Adrian M. Marinescu