Patents by Inventor Jon Fraser

Jon Fraser 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: 20160232354
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a system and method for monitoring structures of interest in a host system that is isolated and independent of the CPU and of the operating system. The system does not modify a monitored host's software and operates properly even when the host system has been compromised. The monitor of the present disclosure monitors the integrity of the examined structure by calculating values of the structure, comparing them with expected values, and sending error reports once the discrepancy between these values is detected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2015
    Publication date: August 11, 2016
    Inventors: Timothy Jon Fraser, Jesus Maria Molina-Terriza, Nick Louis Petroni, William A. Arbaugh
  • Patent number: 8955133
    Abstract: The subject disclosure is directed towards a technology by which antimalware detection logic is maintained and operated at a backend service, with which a customer frontend machine communicates (queries) for purposes of malware detection. In this way, some antimalware techniques are maintained at the backend service rather than revealed to antimalware authors. The backend antimalware detection logic may be based upon feature selection, and may be updated rapidly, in a manner that is faster than malware authors can track. Noise may be added to the results to make it difficult for malware authors to deduce the logic behind the results. The backend may return results indicating malware or not malware, or return inconclusive results. The backend service may also detect probing-related queries that are part of an attempt to deduce the unrevealed antimalware detection logic, with noisy results returned in response and/or other actions taken to foil the attempt.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2015
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Ajith Kumar, Timothy Jon Fraser, Adrian M. Marinescu, Marc E. Seinfeld, Jack Wilson Stokes, III, Anil Francis Thomas
  • Patent number: 8955104
    Abstract: A host system integrity monitor for monitoring memory, operating systems, applications, domain manager, and other host system's structures of interest is isolated and independent of the CPU and operating system of commodity systems. The system requires no modifications to the protected (monitored) host's software, and operates correctly even when the host system is compromised. Either arranged as a stand-alone computer on the add-in card which communicates with the monitored host system through the PCI bus, or as the co-processor based monitor located on the motherboard of the host system, or residing on one of the virtual CPU while the monitored system resides on another virtual CPU, or residing within the domain manager of the host system, the monitor monitors the integrity of the examined structure by calculating hash values of the structure, comparing them with expected hash values, and sending error reports once the discrepancy between these values is detected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2015
    Assignee: University of Maryland College Park
    Inventors: William A. Arbaugh, Nick Louis Petroni, Jr., Timothy Jon Fraser, Jesus Maria Molina-Terriza
  • Publication number: 20120317644
    Abstract: The subject disclosure is directed towards a technology by which antimalware detection logic is maintained and operated at a backend service, with which a customer frontend machine communicates (queries) for purposes of malware detection. In this way, some antimalware techniques are maintained at the backend service rather than revealed to antimalware authors. The backend antimalware detection logic may be based upon feature selection, and may be updated rapidly, in a manner that is faster than malware authors can track. Noise may be added to the results to make it difficult for malware authors to deduce the logic behind the results. The backend may return results indicating malware or not malware, or return inconclusive results. The backend service may also detect probing-related queries that are part of an attempt to deduce the unrevealed antimalware detection logic, with noisy results returned in response and/or other actions taken to foil the attempt.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2011
    Publication date: December 13, 2012
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ajith Kumar, Timothy Jon Fraser, Adrian M. Marinescu, Marc E. Seinfeld, Jack Wilson Stokes, III, Anil Francis Thomas
  • Publication number: 20110010929
    Abstract: This invention relates to methods and systems for attaching components to strips of material to form assemblies, e.g., a system for fastening pre-sharpened razor blades to individual support strips on a continuous band of material, such as a metal, to form discrete blade assemblies.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2010
    Publication date: January 20, 2011
    Inventors: Matthew J. Guay, Robert Genovisi, Stephen A. Green, Norbert Binkowski, Craig Stephen Vickery, Jon Fraser Ewing, Ingomar JK Summerauer
  • Patent number: 7823272
    Abstract: This invention relates to methods and systems for attaching components to strips of material to form assemblies, e.g., a system for fastening pre-sharpened razor blades to individual support strips on a continuous band of material, such as a metal, to form discrete blade assemblies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2010
    Assignee: The Gillette Company
    Inventors: Matthew J. Guay, Robert Genovisi, Stephen A. Green, Norbert Binkowski, Craig Stephen Vickery, Jon Fraser Ewing, Ingomar JK Summerauer
  • Publication number: 20090217377
    Abstract: A host system integrity monitor for monitoring memory, operating systems, applications, domain manager, and other host system's structures of interest is isolated and independent of the CPU and operating system of commodity systems. The system requires no modifications to the protected (monitored) host's software, and operates correctly even when the host system is compromised. Either arranged as a stand-alone computer on the add-in card which communicates with the monitored host system through the PCI bus, or as the co-processor based monitor located on the motherboard of the host system, or residing on one of the virtual CPU while the monitored system resides on another virtual CPU, or residing within the domain manager of the host system, the monitor of the present invention monitors the integrity of the examined structure by calculating hash values of the structure, comparing them with expected hash values, and sending error reports once the discrepancy between these values is detected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2005
    Publication date: August 27, 2009
    Inventors: William A. Arbaugh, Nick Louis Petroni, Timothy Jon Fraser, Jesus Maria Molina-Terriza
  • Publication number: 20080110230
    Abstract: This invention relates to methods and systems for attaching components to strips of material to form assemblies, e.g., a system for fastening pre-sharpened razor blades to individual support strips on a continuous band of material, such as a metal, to form discrete blade assemblies.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2006
    Publication date: May 15, 2008
    Inventors: Matthew J. Guay, Robert Genovisi, Stephen A. Green, Norbert Binkowski, Craig Stephen Vickery, Jon Fraser Ewing, Ingomar JK Summerauer
  • Patent number: D804568
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2017
    Inventors: Ryder Kessler, Jon Fraser, Joshua Harris