Patents by Inventor Levi Lloyd

Levi Lloyd 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: 9294486
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention describe systems and methods for malicious software detection and analysis. A binary executable comprising obfuscated malware on a host device may be received, and incident data indicating a time when the binary executable was received and identifying processes operating on the host device may be recorded. The binary executable is analyzed via a scalable plurality of execution environments, including one or more non-virtual execution environments and one or more virtual execution environments, to generate runtime data and deobfuscation data attributable to the binary executable. At least some of the runtime data and deobfuscation data attributable to the binary executable is stored in a shared database, while at least some of the incident data is stored in a private, non-shared database.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2016
    Assignee: Sandia Corporation
    Inventors: Ken Chiang, Levi Lloyd, Jonathan Crussell, Benjamin Sanders, Jeremy Lee Erickson, David Jakob Fritz