Patents by Inventor Christopher T. Rathgeb

Christopher T. Rathgeb 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).

  • Statistical fingerprinting for malware detection and classification
    Patent number: 9135440
    Abstract: A system detects malware in a computing architecture with an unknown pedigree. The system includes a first computing device having a known pedigree and operating free of malware. The first computing device executes a series of instrumented functions that, when executed, provide a statistical baseline that is representative of the time it takes the software application to run on a computing device having a known pedigree. A second computing device executes a second series of instrumented functions that, when executed, provides an actual time that is representative of the time the known software application runs on the second computing device. The system detects malware when there is a difference in execution times between the first and the second computing devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2015
    Assignee: UT-Battelle, LLC
    Inventors: Stacy J. Prowell, Christopher T. Rathgeb
  • STATISTICAL FINGERPRINTING FOR MALWARE DETECTION AND CLASSIFICATION
    Publication number: 20140041031
    Abstract: A system detects malware in a computing architecture with an unknown pedigree. The system includes a first computing device having a known pedigree and operating free of malware. The first computing device executes a series of instrumented functions that, when executed, provide a statistical baseline that is representative of the time it takes the software application to run on a computing device having a known pedigree. A second computing device executes a second series of instrumented functions that, when executed, provides an actual time that is representative of the time the known software application runs on the second computing device. The system detects malware when there is a difference in execution times between the first and the second computing devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2013
    Publication date: February 6, 2014
    Applicant: UT-Battelle, LLC
    Inventors: Stacy J. Prowell, Christopher T. Rathgeb