Patents by Inventor Kathleen N. McGill

Kathleen N. McGill 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).

  • Apparatus and method for identifying constituent parts of software binaries
    Patent number: 10956151
    Abstract: An example method for determining a software classification is provided. The example method may include determining a plurality of substream boundaries including a first substream boundary within a representation of a software binary, and segmenting the representation of the software binary into a plurality of substreams. The example method may further include generating a first count string for a first substream based on operational class token counts in a tokenization of the first substream, where the tokenization of the first substream may be based on a mapping of commands within the first substream to operational classes. The example method may further include performing a first count string comparison with a reference database to determine a first count string match, where the first count string comparison being based on the first count string, and classifying the software binary based on the first count string match.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignee: The Johns Hopkins University
    Inventors: Margaret F. Lospinuso, Sakunthala Harshavardhana, Laura J. Glendenning, Kathleen N. McGill, Robert M. Seng, Tzuhsiu Chiou, Sterling E. Vinson
  • Apparatus and Method for Identifying Constituent Parts of Software Binaries
    Publication number: 20190250911
    Abstract: An example method for determining a software classification is provided. The example method may include determining a plurality of substream boundaries including a first substream boundary within a representation of a software binary, and segmenting the representation of the software binary into a plurality of substreams. The example method may further include generating a first count string for a first substream based on operational class token counts in a tokenization of the first substream, where the tokenization of the first substream may be based on a mapping of commands within the first substream to operational classes. The example method may further include performing a first count string comparison with a reference database to determine a first count string match, where the first count string comparison being based on the first count string, and classifying the software binary based on the first count string match.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2019
    Publication date: August 15, 2019
    Inventors: Margaret F. Lospinuso, Sakunthala Harshavardhana, Laura J. Glendenning, Kathleen N. McGill, Robert M. Seng, Tzuhsiu Chiou, Sterling E. Vinson