Patents by Inventor Paul B. Ducklin

Paul B. Ducklin 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: 8826424
    Abstract: In embodiments of the present invention improved capabilities are described for runtime additive disinfection of malware. Runtime additive disinfection of malware may include performing the steps of identifying, based at least in part on its type, an executable software application that is suspected of being infected with malware, wherein the malware is adapted to perform a function during the execution of the executable software application, predicting the malware function based on known patterns of malware infection relating to the type of the executable software application, and in response to the prediction, adding a remediation software component to the executable software application that disables the executable software component from executing code that performs the predicted malware function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2014
    Assignee: Sophos Limited
    Inventors: James I. G. Lyne, Paul B. Ducklin
  • Publication number: 20100251000
    Abstract: In embodiments of the present invention improved capabilities are described for runtime additive disinfection of malware. Runtime additive disinfection of malware may include performing the steps of identifying, based at least in part on its type, an executable software application that is suspected of being infected with malware, wherein the malware is adapted to perform a function during the execution of the executable software application, predicting the malware function based on known patterns of malware infection relating to the type executable software application, and in response to the prediction, adding a remediation software component to the executable software application that disables the executable software component from executing code that performs the predicted malware function.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2009
    Publication date: September 30, 2010
    Inventors: James I.G. Lyne, Paul B. Ducklin