Patents by Inventor Daniel Asheghian

Daniel Asheghian 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).

  • Patent number: 9811659
    Abstract: The disclosed computer-implemented method for time-shifted detection of security threats may include (1) collecting history data that describes activity of the computing system during a past time period, (2) archiving the history data in association with the past time period, (3) identifying a potential security threat to the computing system that was unknown to a software security system during the past time period, and (4) in response to identifying the potential security threat, replaying the history data through the software security system to enable the software security system to determine whether the computing system was affected by the potential security threat during the past time period. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: Symantec Corporation
    Inventor: Daniel Asheghian
  • Patent number: 9064130
    Abstract: A malware detection agent operating on a computing device detects one or more indicators of a potential data loss threat. Sensitive data is identified based on at least one of a logical location or a physical location of the sensitive data. One or more data loss prevention policies are enabled to protect the sensitive data until the potential data loss threat is resolved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2015
    Assignee: Symantec Corporation
    Inventors: Daniel Asheghian, David Kane
  • Patent number: 8281403
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for evaluating the health of computing systems based on when operating-system changes occur is disclosed. In one example, this method may include: 1) identifying an operating-system change made to a computing system, 2) determining when the operating-system change occurred, and then 3) assessing the health of the computing system based at least in part on when the operating-system change occurred. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2012
    Assignee: Symantec Corporation
    Inventors: Daniel Asheghian, Robert Conrad, Christopher Peterson, Chris Sakuma