Patents by Inventor John Feaver

John Feaver 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).

  • Method and apparatus for detecting zombie-generated spam
    Patent number: 8775521
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method and system for detecting a zombie attack in a network having a plurality of computers. The method and system include a network analysis module for determining, for each computer, a working set of email addresses associated with emails sent by each computer. A zombie attack is detected by determining at least one of: 1) at least one computer in the plurality is transmitting more than a threshold rate of emails, 2) that at least one of the computers is transmitting more than a first threshold number of emails to email addresses outside of its associated working set, 3) that a first threshold number of computers in the plurality are transmitting email messages to email addresses outside of their associated working set, and 4) that more than a second threshold number of computers are transmitting more than a second threshold number of emails to a recipient computer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2014
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property II, L.P.
    Inventors: John Feaver, Tony Hansen
  • Method and apparatus for detecting zombie-generated spam
    Publication number: 20080005316
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method and system for detecting a zombie attack in a network having a plurality of computers. The method and system include a network analysis module for determining, for each computer, a working set of email addresses associated with emails sent by each computer. A zombie attack is detected by determining at least one of: 1) at least one computer in the plurality is transmitting more than a threshold rate of emails, 2) that at least one of the computers is transmitting more than a first threshold number of emails to email addresses outside of its associated working set, 3) that a first threshold number of computers in the plurality are transmitting email messages to email addresses outside of their associated working set, and 4) that more than a second threshold number of computers are transmitting more than a second threshold number of emails to a recipient computer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2006
    Publication date: January 3, 2008
    Inventors: John Feaver, Tony Hansen