Patents by Inventor Christopher S. Stinson

Christopher S. Stinson 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: 20230328080
    Abstract: Systems and methods for detecting suspicious malware by analyzing data such as transfer protocol data or logs from a host within an enterprise is provided. The systems and methods include a database for storing current data and historical data obtained from the network and a detection module and an optional display. The embodiments herein extract information from non-encrypted transfer protocol metadata, determine a plurality of features, utilize an outlier detection model that is based on historical behaviors, calculate a suspiciousness score, and create alerts for analysis by users when the score exceeds a threshold. In doing so, the systems and methods of the present invention improve the ability to identify suspicious outliers or potential malware on an iterative basis over time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2023
    Publication date: October 12, 2023
    Inventors: Jordan S. Webster, Christopher S. Stinson
  • Publication number: 20230328101
    Abstract: Systems and methods for detecting anomalous and malicious URL's by analyzing markup language structure, such as HTML, are provided. The systems and methods include the querying of a URL to obtain the markup language data. The markup language data their corresponding elements and their locations rows/depths are parsed into coordinates within a 2-dimensional grid and then processed into features. A color is assigned to each feature as a function of the type of feature. The three dimensions (x, y coordinates and color coordinate) of the features are used to generate an image. The generated images are then compressed to facilitate processing. The compressed images of common websites are analyzed using deep machine learning algorithms to generate a model that represents their structure. These generated models are then used to detect suspicious and/or anomalous websites.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2023
    Publication date: October 12, 2023
    Inventors: Ania Kacewicz, Christopher S. Stinson
  • Patent number: 11716350
    Abstract: Systems and methods for detecting anomalous and malicious URL's by analyzing markup language structure, such as HTML, are provided. The systems and methods include the querying of a URL to obtain the markup language data. The markup language data their corresponding elements and their locations rows/depths are parsed into coordinates within a 2-dimensional grid and then processed into features. A color is assigned to each feature as a function of the type of feature. The three dimensions (x, y coordinates and color coordinate) of the features are used to generate an image. The generated images are then compressed to facilitate processing. The compressed images of common websites are analyzed using deep machine learning algorithms to generate a model that represents their structure. These generated models are then used to detect suspicious and/or anomalous websites.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: IRONNET CYBERSECURITY, INC.
    Inventors: Ania Kacewicz, Christopher S. Stinson
  • Patent number: 11716337
    Abstract: Systems and methods for detecting suspicious malware by analyzing data such as transfer protocol data or logs from a host within an enterprise is provided. The systems and methods include a database for storing current data and historical data obtained from the network and a detection module and an optional display. The embodiments herein extract information from non-encrypted transfer protocol metadata, determine a plurality of features, utilize an outlier detection model that is based on historical behaviors, calculate a suspiciousness score, and create alerts for analysis by users when the score exceeds a threshold. In doing so, the systems and methods of the present invention improve the ability to identify suspicious outliers or potential malware on an iterative basis over time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: IRONNET CYBERSECURITY, INC.
    Inventors: Jordan S. Webster, Christopher S. Stinson
  • Publication number: 20210397877
    Abstract: Systems and methods for detecting anomalous and malicious URL's by analyzing markup language structure, such as HTML, are provided. The systems and methods include the querying of a URL to obtain the markup language data. The markup language data their corresponding elements and their locations rows/depths are parsed into coordinates within a 2-dimensional grid and then processed into features. A color is assigned to each feature as a function of the type of feature. The three dimensions (x, y coordinates and color coordinate) of the features are used to generate an image. The generated images are then compressed to facilitate processing. The compressed images of common websites are analyzed using deep machine learning algorithms to generate a model that represents their structure. These generated models are then used to detect suspicious and/or anomalous websites.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2020
    Publication date: December 23, 2021
    Inventors: Ania Kacewicz, Christopher S. Stinson
  • Publication number: 20210250364
    Abstract: Systems and methods for detecting suspicious malware by analyzing data such as transfer protocol data or logs from a host within an enterprise is provided. The systems and methods include a database for storing current data and historical data obtained from the network and a detection module and an optional display. The embodiments herein extract information from non-encrypted transfer protocol metadata, determine a plurality of features, utilize an outlier detection model that is based on historical behaviors, calculate a suspiciousness score, and create alerts for analysis by users when the score exceeds a threshold. In doing so, the systems and methods of the present invention improve the ability to identify suspicious outliers or potential malware on an iterative basis over time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2020
    Publication date: August 12, 2021
    Inventors: Jordan S. Webster, Christopher S. Stinson