Patents by Inventor Michael Lowney

Michael Lowney 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: 12355782
    Abstract: This disclosure describes building a graph that is based on which IP address sources are active in the same time periods. By creating a node for each IP address with some moderate level of suspicious activity and connecting the nodes for any IP addresses that are engaging in that activity at roughly the same time, the graph represents scenarios of possible cooperation between sets of IP addresses. Nodes in this graph and the links between are assigned values based on how much suspicious activity they engage in during each time window. These values decay over time if no new suspicious activity occurs. By analyzing the resulting graph at any particular point in time, how similar two IP addresses have been behaving recently can be measured without having to keep track of their total history of activity over the last time period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2025
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Jared Sylvester, Michael Lowney, Catherine Watkins, Wayne Alan Fullen, John Paul Schweitzer, Sameer Anil Murudkar
  • Patent number: 12149559
    Abstract: Described are systems and methods for determining a reputation score and/or a confidence score for a network identifier that represents, respectively, a likelihood that the network identifier presents a threat and/or a likelihood that the network activity associated with the network identifier corresponds to a port scanning, enumeration, or other malicious event. Embodiments of the present disclosure can utilize various network telemetry information, such as authentication activity, outbound traffic activity, web activity, honeypot connection activity, or network classification information to determine the reputation and/or confidence scores in response to a query/request and/or in connection with potentially malicious activity that can represent a likelihood that the detected potentially malicious activity is malicious/legitimate and the potential impact that remediation measures taken against the network identifier may have in the event that the detected network activity was legitimate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Wayne Alan Fullen, Patrick Collard, William Kupersanin, Michael Lowney, Jared Sylvester, Catherine Watkins, Stephen Goodman, Ravi Karnam, Jacob Nguyen, Luke Kenneth Schubert, Elisabeth Margaret Nagy, Evripidis Paraskevas, John Paul Schweitzer, Sai Srinivas Vemula
  • Publication number: 20240291843
    Abstract: Methods and systems for the detection, identification, analysis of cybersecurity events in order to support prevention of the persistence of threats, malware or other harmful events are provided. The methods and systems of the present invention enable a user to find similar anomalous network traffic within a single network or across multiple networks. The methods and systems identify and correlate activity in order to analyze potential threats within a network by providing broader contextual information about how those threats relate to other activity within the network or across a sector or country.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2024
    Publication date: August 29, 2024
    Inventors: Michael Lowney, Phillip Baker Schafer, Alexander Michael Conn, Patrick Collard, Stephen Kinser
  • Patent number: 11997122
    Abstract: Methods and systems for the detection, identification, analysis of cybersecurity events in order to support prevention of the persistence of threats, malware or other harmful events are provided. The methods and systems of the present invention enable a user to find similar anomalous network traffic within a single network or across multiple networks. The methods and systems identify and correlate activity in order to analyze potential threats within a network by providing broader contextual information about how those threats relate to other activity within the network or across a sector or country.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: IronNet Cybersecurity, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Lowney, Phillip Baker Schafer, Alexander Michael Conn, Patrick Collard, Stephen Kinser
  • Publication number: 20230033117
    Abstract: Methods and systems for the detection, identification, analysis of cybersecurity events in order to support prevention of the persistence of threats, malware or other harmful events are provided. The methods and systems of the present invention enable a user to find similar anomalous network traffic within a single network or across multiple networks. The methods and systems identify and correlate activity in order to analyze potential threats within a network by providing broader contextual information about how those threats relate to other activity within the network or across a sector or country.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2022
    Publication date: February 2, 2023
    Inventors: Michael Lowney, Phillip Baker Schafer, Alexander Michael Conn, Patrick Collard, Stephen Kinser
  • Patent number: 11477223
    Abstract: Methods and systems for the detection, identification, analysis of cybersecurity events in order to support prevention of the persistence of threats, malware or other harmful events are provided. The methods and systems of the present invention enable a user to find similar anomalous network traffic within a single network or across multiple networks. The methods and systems identify and correlate activity in order to analyze potential threats within a network by providing broader contextual information about how those threats relate to other activity within the network or across a sector or country.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: IronNet Cybersecurity, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Lowney, Phillip Baker Schafer, Alexander Michael Conn, Patrick Collard, Stephen Kinser
  • Publication number: 20210218764
    Abstract: Methods and systems for the detection, identification, analysis of cybersecurity events in order to support prevention of the persistence of threats, malware or other harmful events are provided. The methods and systems of the present invention enable a user to find similar anomalous network traffic within a single network or across multiple networks. The methods and systems identify and correlate activity in order to analyze potential threats within a network by providing broader contextual information about how those threats relate to other activity within the network or across a sector or country.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2020
    Publication date: July 15, 2021
    Inventors: Michael Lowney, Phillip Baker Schafer, Alexander Michael Conn, Patrick Collard, Stephen Kinser