Patents by Inventor Edward T. Mooring

Edward T. Mooring 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: 11861005
    Abstract: Systems, methods, computer readable media and articles of manufacture consistent with innovations herein are directed to computer virtualization, computer security and/or data isolation. According to some illustrative implementations, innovations herein may utilize and/or involve a separation kernel hypervisor which may include the use of a guest operating system virtual machine protection domain, a virtualization assistance layer, and/or a rootkit defense mechanism (which may be proximate in temporal and/or spatial locality to malicious code, but isolated from it), inter alia, for detection and/or prevention of malicious code, for example, in a manner/context that is isolated and not able to be corrupted, detected, prevented, bypassed, and/or otherwise affected by the malicious code.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Lynx Software Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Edward T Mooring, Phillip Yankovsky
  • Patent number: 11782745
    Abstract: Systems, methods, computer readable media and articles of manufacture consistent with innovations herein are directed to computer virtualization, computer security and/or hypervisor fingerprinting. According to some illustrative implementations, innovations herein may utilize and/or involve a separation kernel hypervisor which may include the use of a guest operating system virtual machine protection domain, a virtualization assistance layer, and/or a CPU ID instruction handler (which may be proximate in temporal and/or spatial locality to malicious code, but isolated from it). The CPU ID instruction handler may perform processing, inter alia, to return configurable values different from the actual values for the physical hardware. The virtualization assistance layer may further contain virtual devices, which when probed by guest operating system code, return the same values as their physical counterparts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: Lynx Software Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Edward T. Mooring
  • Patent number: 11782766
    Abstract: Systems, methods, computer readable media and articles of manufacture consistent with innovations herein are directed to computer virtualization, computer security and/or memory access. According to some illustrative implementations, innovations herein may utilize and/or involve a separation kernel hypervisor which may include the use of a guest operating system virtual machine protection domain, a virtualization assistance layer, and/or a detection mechanism (which may be proximate in temporal and/or spatial locality to malicious code, but isolated from it), inter alia, for detection and/or notification of, and action by a monitoring guest upon access by a monitored guest to predetermined physical memory locations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: Lynx Software Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Edward T. Mooring, Phillip Yankovsky, Craig Howard
  • Publication number: 20220261264
    Abstract: Systems, methods, computer readable media and articles of manufacture consistent with innovations herein are directed to computer virtualization, computer security and/or hypervisor fingerprinting. According to some illustrative implementations, innovations herein may utilize and/or involve a separation kernel hypervisor which may include the use of a guest operating system virtual machine protection domain, a virtualization assistance layer, and/or a CPU ID instruction handler (which may be proximate in temporal and/or spatial locality to malicious code, but isolated from it). The CPU ID instruction handler may perform processing, inter alia, to return configurable values different from the actual values for the physical hardware. The virtualization assistance layer may further contain virtual devices, which when probed by guest operating system code, return the same values as their physical counterparts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2020
    Publication date: August 18, 2022
    Inventor: Edward T. Mooring
  • Publication number: 20220137996
    Abstract: Systems, methods, computer readable media and articles of manufacture consistent with innovations herein are directed to computer virtualization, computer security and/or hypervisor fingerprinting. According to some illustrative implementations, innovations herein may utilize and/or involve a separation kernel hypervisor which may include the use of a guest operating system virtual machine protection domain, a virtualization assistance layer, and/or a CPU ID instruction handler (which may be proximate in temporal and/or spatial locality to malicious code, but isolated from it). The CPU ID instruction handler may perform processing, inter alia, to return configurable values different from the actual values for the physical hardware. The virtualization assistance layer may further contain virtual devices, which when probed by guest operating system code, return the same values as their physical counterparts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2020
    Publication date: May 5, 2022
    Inventor: Edward T. Mooring
  • Publication number: 20210294900
    Abstract: Systems, methods, computer readable media and articles of manufacture consistent with innovations herein are directed to computer virtualization, computer security and/or data isolation. According to some illustrative implementations, innovations herein may utilize and/or involve a separation kernel hypervisor which may include the use of a guest operating system virtual machine protection domain, a virtualization assistance layer, and/or a rootkit defense mechanism (which may be proximate in temporal and/or spatial locality to malicious code, but isolated from it), inter alia, for detection and/or prevention of malicious code, for example, in a manner/context that is isolated and not able to be corrupted, detected, prevented, bypassed, and/or otherwise affected by the malicious code.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2020
    Publication date: September 23, 2021
    Inventors: Edward T Mooring, Phillip Yankovsky
  • Publication number: 20210149741
    Abstract: Systems, methods, computer readable media and articles of manufacture consistent with innovations herein are directed to computer virtualization, computer security and/or memory access. According to some illustrative implementations, innovations herein may utilize and/or involve a separation kernel hypervisor which may include the use of a guest operating system virtual machine protection domain, a virtualization assistance layer, and/or a detection mechanism (which may be proximate in temporal and/or spatial locality to malicious code, but isolated from it), inter alia, for detection and/or notification of, and action by a monitoring guest upon access by a monitored guest to predetermined physical memory locations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2020
    Publication date: May 20, 2021
    Inventors: Edward T. Mooring, Phillip Yankovsky, Craig Howard
  • Patent number: 10824715
    Abstract: Systems, methods, computer readable media and articles of manufacture consistent with innovations herein are directed to computer virtualization, computer security and/or hypervisor fingerprinting. According to some illustrative implementations, innovations herein may utilize and/or involve a separation kernel hypervisor which may include the use of a guest operating system virtual machine protection domain, a virtualization assistance layer, and/or a CPU ID instruction handler (which may be proximate in temporal and/or spatial locality to malicious code, but isolated from it). The CPU ID instruction handler may perform processing, inter alia, to return configurable values different from the actual values for the physical hardware. The virtualization assistance layer may further contain virtual devices, which when probed by guest operating system code, return the same values as their physical counterparts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: Lynx Software Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Edward T. Mooring
  • Patent number: 10789105
    Abstract: Systems, methods, computer readable media and articles of manufacture consistent with innovations herein are directed to computer virtualization, computer security and/or memory access. According to some illustrative implementations, innovations herein may utilize and/or involve a separation kernel hypervisor which may include the use of a guest operating system virtual machine protection domain, a virtualization assistance layer, and/or a detection mechanism (which may be proximate in temporal and/or spatial locality to malicious code, but isolated from it), inter alia, for detection and/or notification of, and action by a monitoring guest upon access by a monitored guest to predetermined physical memory locations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignee: Lynx Software Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Edward T. Mooring, Phillip Yankovsky, Craig Howard
  • Patent number: 10671727
    Abstract: Systems, methods, computer readable media and articles of manufacture consistent with innovations herein are directed to computer virtualization, computer security and/or data isolation. According to some illustrative implementations, innovations herein may utilize and/or involve a separation kernel hypervisor which may include the use of a guest operating system virtual machine protection domain, a virtualization assistance layer, and/or a rootkit defense mechanism (which may be proximate in temporal and/or spatial locality to malicious code, but isolated from it), inter alia, for detection and/or prevention of malicious code, for example, in a manner/context that is isolated and not able to be corrupted, detected, prevented, bypassed, and/or otherwise affected by the malicious code.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: Lynx Software Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Edward T Mooring, Phillip Yankovsky
  • Publication number: 20180336070
    Abstract: Systems, methods, computer readable media and articles of manufacture consistent with innovations herein are directed to computer virtualization, computer security and/or memory access. According to some illustrative implementations, innovations herein may utilize and/or involve a separation kernel hypervisor which may include the use of a guest operating system virtual machine protection domain, a virtualization assistance layer, and/or a detection mechanism (which may be proximate in temporal and/or spatial locality to malicious code, but isolated from it), inter alia, for detection and/or notification of, and action by a monitoring guest upon access by a monitored guest to predetermined physical memory locations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2018
    Publication date: November 22, 2018
    Inventors: Edward T. Mooring, Phillip Yankovsky, Craig Howard
  • Patent number: 10095538
    Abstract: Systems, methods, computer readable media and articles of manufacture consistent with innovations herein are directed to computer virtualization, computer security and/or memory access. According to some illustrative implementations, innovations herein may utilize and/or involve a separation kernel hypervisor which may include the use of a guest operating system virtual machine protection domain, a virtualization assistance layer, and/or a detection mechanism (which may be proximate in temporal and/or spatial locality to malicious code, but isolated from it), inter alia, for detection and/or notification of, and action by a monitoring guest upon access by a monitored guest to predetermined physical memory locations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: Lynx Software Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Edward T. Mooring, Phillip Yankovsky
  • Patent number: 10061606
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for providing secure information processing. In one exemplary implementation, there is provided a method of secure domain isolation. Moreover, the method may include configuring a computing component with data/programming associated with address swapping and/or establishing isolation between domains or virtual machines, processing information such as instructions from an input device while keeping the domains or virtual machines separate, and/or performing navigating and/or other processing among the domains or virtual machines as a function of the data/programming and/or information, wherein secure isolation between the domains or virtual machines is maintained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2018
    Assignee: Lynx Software Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Edward T. Mooring
  • Patent number: 10051008
    Abstract: Systems, methods, computer readable media and articles of manufacture consistent with innovations herein are directed to computer virtualization, computer security and/or memory access. According to some illustrative implementations, innovations herein may utilize and/or involve a separation kernel hypervisor which may include the use of a guest operating system virtual machine protection domain, a virtualization assistance layer, and/or a instruction execution detection/interception mechanism (which may be proximate in temporal and/or spatial locality to malicious code, but isolated from it). The instruction execution detection/interception mechanism may perform processing, inter alia, for detection and/or notification of, and actions upon by a monitoring guest, code execution by a monitored guest involving predetermined physical memory locations, such as API calls.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: Lynx Software Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Edward T. Mooring, Craig Howard
  • Patent number: 9940174
    Abstract: Systems, methods, computer readable media and articles of manufacture consistent with innovations herein are directed to computer virtualization, computer security and/or memory access. According to some illustrative implementations, innovations herein may utilize and/or involve a separation kernel hypervisor which may include the use of a guest operating system virtual machine protection domain, a virtualization assistance layer, and/or a detection mechanism (which may be proximate in temporal and/or spatial locality to malicious code, but isolated from it), inter alia, for detection and/or notification of, and action by a monitoring guest upon access by a monitored guest to predetermined physical memory locations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2018
    Assignee: Lynx Software Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Edward T. Mooring, Phillip Yankovsky, Craig Howard
  • Publication number: 20170257399
    Abstract: Systems, methods, computer readable media and articles of manufacture consistent with innovations herein are directed to computer virtualization, computer security and/or memory access. According to some illustrative implementations, innovations herein may utilize and/or involve a separation kernel hypervisor which may include the use of a guest operating system virtual machine protection domain, a virtualization assistance layer, and/or a instruction execution detection/interception mechanism (which may be proximate in temporal and/or spatial locality to malicious code, but isolated from it). The instruction execution detection/interception mechanism may perform processing, inter alia, for detection and/or notification of, and actions upon by a monitoring guest, code execution by a monitored guest involving predetermined physical memory locations, such as API calls.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2017
    Publication date: September 7, 2017
    Inventors: Edward T. Mooring, Craig Howard
  • Publication number: 20170220373
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for providing secure information processing. In one exemplary implementation, there is provided a method of secure domain isolation. Moreover, the method may include configuring a computing component with data/programming associated with address swapping and/or establishing isolation between domains or virtual machines, processing information such as instructions from an input device while keeping the domains or virtual machines separate, and/or performing navigating and/or other processing among the domains or virtual machines as a function of the data/programming and/or information, wherein secure isolation between the domains or virtual machines is maintained.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2017
    Publication date: August 3, 2017
    Inventor: Edward T. Mooring
  • Publication number: 20170213030
    Abstract: Systems, methods, computer readable media and articles of manufacture consistent with innovations herein are directed to computer virtualization, computer security and/or data isolation. According to some illustrative implementations, innovations herein may utilize and/or involve a separation kernel hypervisor which may include the use of a guest operating system virtual machine protection domain, a virtualization assistance layer, and/or a rootkit defense mechanism (which may be proximate in temporal and/or spatial locality to malicious code, but isolated from it), inter alia, for detection and/or prevention of malicious code, for example, in a manner/context that is isolated and not able to be corrupted, detected, prevented, bypassed, and/or otherwise affected by the malicious code.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2017
    Publication date: July 27, 2017
    Inventors: Edward T Mooring, Phillip Yankovsky
  • Publication number: 20170200005
    Abstract: Systems, methods, computer readable media and articles of manufacture consistent with innovations herein are directed to computer virtualization, computer security and/or hypervisor fingerprinting. According to some illustrative implementations, innovations herein may utilize and/or involve a separation kernel hypervisor which may include the use of a guest operating system virtual machine protection domain, a virtualization assistance layer, and/or a CPU ID instruction handler (which may be proximate in temporal and/or spatial locality to malicious code, but isolated from it). The CPU ID instruction handler may perform processing, inter alia, to return configurable values different from the actual values for the physical hardware. The virtualization assistance layer may further contain virtual devices, which when probed by guest operating system code, return the same values as their physical counterparts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2016
    Publication date: July 13, 2017
    Inventor: Edward T. Mooring
  • Patent number: 9648045
    Abstract: Systems, methods, computer readable media and articles of manufacture consistent with innovations herein are directed to computer virtualization, computer security and/or memory access. According to some illustrative implementations, innovations herein may utilize and/or involve a separation kernel hypervisor which may include the use of a guest operating system virtual machine protection domain, a virtualization assistance layer, and/or a instruction execution detection/interception mechanism (which may be proximate in temporal and/or spatial locality to malicious code, but isolated from it). The instruction execution detection/interception mechanism may perform processing, inter alia, for detection and/or notification of, and actions upon by a monitoring guest, code execution by a monitored guest involving predetermined physical memory locations, such as API calls.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2017
    Assignee: Lynx Software Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Edward T. Mooring, Craig Howard