Patents by Inventor Dickon Humphrey

Dickon Humphrey 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: 20240121263
    Abstract: An autonomous report composer composes a type of report on cyber threats that is composed in a human-readable format with natural language prose, terminology, and level of detail on the cyber threats aimed at a target audience. The autonomous report composer cooperates with libraries with prewritten text templates with i) standard pre-written sentences written in the natural language prose and ii) prewritten text templates with fillable blanks that are populated with data for the cyber threats specific for a current report being composed, where a template for the type of report contains two or more sections in that template. Each section having different standard pre-written sentences written in the natural language prose.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2023
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Inventors: Dickon Humphrey, Timothy Bazalgette, David Palmer
  • Publication number: 20240022595
    Abstract: A cyber threat defense system can leverage identifying threats by spotting deviations from normal behavior to create a system-wide inoculation regimen. The cyber threat defense system can have a comparison module to execute a comparison of input data for a network entity to at least one machine-learning model of a generic network entity using a normal behavior benchmark to spot behavior deviating from normal benign behavior. The comparison module can identify whether the network entity is in a breach state. The cyber threat defense system can have a cyber threat module to identify whether the breach state and a chain of relevant behavioral parameters correspond to a cyber threat. The cyber threat defense system can have an inoculation module to send an inoculation notice to warn of a potential cyber threat to a target device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2023
    Publication date: January 18, 2024
    Inventors: Dickon Humphrey, Matthew Bispham, Jack Stockdale
  • Patent number: 11799898
    Abstract: A cyber threat defense system can leverage identifying threats by spotting deviations from normal behavior to create a system-wide inoculation regimen. The cyber threat defense system can have a comparison module to execute a comparison of input data for a network entity to at least one machine-learning model of a generic network entity using a normal behavior benchmark to spot behavior deviating from normal benign behavior. The comparison module can identify whether the network entity is in a breach state. The cyber threat defense system can have a cyber threat module to identify whether the breach state and a chain of relevant behavioral parameters correspond to a cyber threat. The cyber threat defense system can have an inoculation module to send an inoculation notice to warn of a potential cyber threat to a target device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: Darktrace Holdings Limited
    Inventors: Dickon Humphrey, Matthew Bispham, Jack Stockdale
  • Publication number: 20230308472
    Abstract: An autonomous email-report composer composes a type of report on cyber threats that is composed in a human-readable format with natural language prose, terminology, and level of detail on the cyber threats aimed at a target audience. The autonomous email-report composer cooperates with libraries with prewritten text templates with i) standard pre-written sentences written in the natural language prose and ii) prewritten text templates with fillable blanks that are populated with data for the cyber threats specific for a current report being composed, where a template for the type of report contains two or more sections in that template. Each section having different standard pre-written sentences written in the natural language prose.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2020
    Publication date: September 28, 2023
    Inventors: John Anthony Boyer, Dickon Humphrey, Matthew Dunn
  • Patent number: 11689557
    Abstract: An autonomous report composer composes a type of report on cyber threats that is composed in a human-readable format with natural language prose, terminology, and level of detail on the cyber threats aimed at a target audience. The autonomous report composer cooperates with libraries with prewritten text templates with i) standard pre-written sentences written in the natural language prose and ii) prewritten text templates with fillable blanks that are populated with data for the cyber threats specific for a current report being composed, where a template for the type of report contains two or more sections in that template. Each section having different standard pre-written sentences written in the natural language prose.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: Darktrace Holdings Limited
    Inventors: Dickon Humphrey, Timothy Bazalgette, David Palmer
  • Publication number: 20220353286
    Abstract: An analyzer module forms a hypothesis on what are a possible set of cyber threats that could include the identified abnormal behavior and/or suspicious activity with AI models trained with machine learning on possible cyber threats. The Analyzer analyzes a collection of system data, including metric data, to support or refute each of the possible cyber threat hypotheses that could include the identified abnormal behavior and/or suspicious activity data with the AI models. A formatting and ranking module outputs supported possible cyber threat hypotheses into a formalized report that is presented in 1) printable report, 2) presented digitally on a user interface, or 3) both.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2022
    Publication date: November 3, 2022
    Inventors: Timothy Bazalgette, Dickon Humphrey, Carl Salji, Jack Stockdale
  • Patent number: 11457030
    Abstract: A cyber threat defense system can autonomously gather research data about external hosts visited by a network entity and present that information in a format integrated with a threat-tracking graphical user interface. A collation module can collect input data from the network entity. A cyber threat module can identify a cyber threat from the input data. A host module can determine at least one host metric for an external host in the input data based on the identified cyber threat. A researcher module can collect host research data describing the external host. A scoring module can analyze the host research data using the at least one host metric. The scoring module can generate an automatic threat score describing a threat level presented by the external host. A user interface module can present a threat-tracking graphical user interface displaying the automatic threat score.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: Darktrace Holdings Limited
    Inventors: Dickon Humphrey, David Palmer
  • Patent number: 11336669
    Abstract: An analyzer module forms a hypothesis on what are a possible set of cyber threats that could include the identified abnormal behavior and/or suspicious activity with AI models trained with machine learning on possible cyber threats. The Analyzer analyzes a collection of system data, including metric data, to support or refute each of the possible cyber threat hypotheses that could include the identified abnormal behavior and/or suspicious activity data with the AI models. A formatting and ranking module outputs supported possible cyber threat hypotheses into a formalized report that is presented in 1) printable report, 2) presented digitally on a user interface, or 3) both.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: Darktrace Holdings Limited
    Inventors: Timothy Bazalgette, Dickon Humphrey, Carl Salji, Jack Stockdale
  • Publication number: 20190260782
    Abstract: A cyber threat defense system can autonomously gather research data about external hosts visited by a network entity and present that information in a format integrated with a threat-tracking graphical user interface. A collation module can collect input data from the network entity. A cyber threat module can identify a cyber threat from the input data. A host module can determine at least one host metric for an external host in the input data based on the identified cyber threat. A researcher module can collect host research data describing the external host. A scoring module can analyze the host research data using the at least one host metric. The scoring module can generate an automatic threat score describing a threat level presented by the external host. A user interface module can present a threat-tracking graphical user interface displaying the automatic threat score.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2019
    Publication date: August 22, 2019
    Inventors: Dickon Humphrey, David Palmer
  • Publication number: 20190260764
    Abstract: An autonomous report composer composes a type of report on cyber threats that is composed in a human-readable format with natural language prose, terminology, and level of detail on the cyber threats aimed at a target audience. The autonomous report composer cooperates with libraries with prewritten text templates with i) standard pre-written sentences written in the natural language prose and ii) prewritten text templates with fillable blanks that are populated with data for the cyber threats specific for a current report being composed, where a template for the type of report contains two or more sections in that template. Each section having different standard pre-written sentences written in the natural language prose.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2019
    Publication date: August 22, 2019
    Inventors: Dickon Humphrey, Timothy Bazalgette, David Palmer
  • Publication number: 20190260779
    Abstract: An analyzer module forms a hypothesis on what are a possible set of cyber threats that could include the identified abnormal behavior and/or suspicious activity with AI models trained with machine learning on possible cyber threats. The Analyzer analyzes a collection of system data, including metric data, to support or refute each of the possible cyber threat hypotheses that could include the identified abnormal behavior and/or suspicious activity data with the AI models. A formatting and ranking module outputs supported possible cyber threat hypotheses into a formalized report that is presented in 1) printable report, 2) presented digitally on a user interface, or 3) both.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2019
    Publication date: August 22, 2019
    Inventors: Timothy Bazalgette, Dickon Humphrey, Carl Salji, Jack Stockdale
  • Publication number: 20190260783
    Abstract: A cyber threat defense system can leverage identifying threats by spotting deviations from normal behavior to create a system-wide inoculation regimen. The cyber threat defense system can have a comparison module to execute a comparison of input data for a network entity to at least one machine-learning model of a generic network entity using a normal behavior benchmark to spot behavior deviating from normal benign behavior. The comparison module can identify whether the network entity is in a breach state. The cyber threat defense system can have a cyber threat module to identify whether the breach state and a chain of relevant behavioral parameters correspond to a cyber threat. The cyber threat defense system can have an inoculation module to send an inoculation notice to warn of a potential cyber threat to a target device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2019
    Publication date: August 22, 2019
    Inventors: Dickon Humphrey, Matthew Bispham, Jack Stockdale