Patents by Inventor Michael K. Adamski

Michael K. Adamski 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: 7954155
    Abstract: An unwanted message may be identified by inspecting the payload portion of a message being communicated, comparing the characteristics of the payload portion with stored data indicating characteristics of other messages, and identifying a security condition based on a comparison of the message inspected. The characteristics inspected may include the payload portion of a message or the whole message when the characteristics are being compared against messages being exchanged on more than one local exchanging system. Furthermore, the characteristics of messages may be tracked for comparison against the characteristics of future messages. A threshold number of those characteristics may subsequently implicate a hostile security condition, even if a current comparison of these characteristics does not reach the threshold necessary to implicate a hostile security condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2011
    Assignee: AOL, Inc.
    Inventors: Lorin R. Sutton, Jr., Craig E. Despeaux, Michael K. Adamski
  • Patent number: 7925615
    Abstract: Systems and techniques for improving the performance of a network system having one or more sending systems and one or more receiving systems may include determining the digital signature of a received digital file, comparing the digital signature against stored digital signatures of digital files accessible to the receiving system, and determining whether to store the received digital file and/or a location identifier for the stored version of the received digital file based on a result of the comparison.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2011
    Assignee: AOL Inc.
    Inventors: Lorin R. Sutton, Jr., Craig E. Despeaux, Walter Scott Hall, III, Michael K. Adamski
  • Patent number: 7496604
    Abstract: Systems and techniques for improving the performance of a network system having one or more sending systems and one or more receiving systems may include determining the digital signature of a received digital file, comparing the digital signature against stored digital signatures of digital files accessible to the receiving system, and determining whether to store the received digital file and/or a location identifier for the stored version of the received digital file based on a result of the comparison.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2002
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2009
    Assignee: AOL LLC
    Inventors: Lorin R. Sutton, Jr., Craig E. Despaux, Walter Scott Hall, III, Michael K. Adamski
  • Patent number: 7325249
    Abstract: An unwanted message may be identified by inspecting the payload portion of a message being communicated, comparing the characteristics of the payload portion with stored data indicating characteristics of other messages, and identifying a security condition based on a comparison of the message inspected. The characteristics inspected may include the payload portion of a message or the whole message when the characteristics are being compared against messages being exchanged on more than one local exchanging system. Furthermore, the characteristics of messages may be tracked for comparison against the characteristics of future messages. A threshold number of those characteristics may subsequently implicate a hostile security condition, even if a current comparison of these characteristics does not reach the threshold necessary to implicate a hostile security condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2002
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2008
    Assignee: AOL LLC
    Inventors: Lorin R. Sutton, Jr., Craig E. Despeaux, Michael K. Adamski
  • Publication number: 20030105716
    Abstract: Systems and techniques for improving the performance of a network system having one or more sending systems and one or more receiving systems may include determining the digital signature of a received digital file, comparing the digital signature against stored digital signatures of digital files accessible to the receiving system, and determining whether to store the received digital file and/or a location identifier for the stored version of the received digital file based on a result of the comparison.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2002
    Publication date: June 5, 2003
    Inventors: Lorin R. Sutton, Craig E. Despeaux, Walter Scott Hall, Michael K. Adamski
  • Publication number: 20020162025
    Abstract: An unwanted message may be identified by inspecting the payload portion of a message being communicated, comparing the characteristics of the payload portion with stored data indicating characteristics of other messages, and identifying a security condition based on a comparison of the message inspected. The characteristics inspected may include the payload portion of a message or the whole message when the characteristics are being compared against messages being exchanged on more than one local exchanging system. Furthermore, the characteristics of messages may be tracked for comparison against the characteristics of future messages. A threshold number of those characteristics may subsequently implicate a hostile security condition, even if a current comparison of these characteristics does not reach the threshold necessary to implicate a hostile security condition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2002
    Publication date: October 31, 2002
    Inventors: Lorin R. Sutton, Craig E. Despeaux, Michael K. Adamski