Patents by Inventor Peter Yvain Anthony Ryan

Peter Yvain Anthony Ryan 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).

  • Method for preventing ransomware attacks on computing systems
    Patent number: 11620380
    Abstract: A method for preventing ransomware attacks on a computing system. By controlling the access to a calling interface through which cryptographic functions, such as the random number generator, can be accessed to generate strong encryption keys the method allows to efficiently terminate cryptographic ransomware attacks on the system before they can start doing any damage. If the access to the cryptographic functions, such as the random number generator, is not granted, the ransomware is unable to build a strong encryption key, and it is unable to deploy its intended effect.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: UNIVERSITÉ DU LUXEMBOURG
    Inventors: Ziya Alper Genc, Gabriele Lenzini, Peter Yvain Anthony Ryan
  • METHOD FOR PREVENTING RANSOMWARE ATTACKS ON COMPUTING SYSTEMS
    Publication number: 20210264028
    Abstract: A method for preventing ransomware attacks on a computing system. By controlling the access to a calling interface through which cryptographic functions, such as the random number generator, can be accessed to generate strong encryption keys the method allows to efficiently terminate cryptographic ransomware attacks on the system before they can start doing any damage. If the access to the cryptographic functions, such as the random number generator, is not granted, the ransomware is unable to build a strong encryption key, and it is unable to deploy its intended effect.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2019
    Publication date: August 26, 2021
    Inventors: Ziya Alper Genc, Gabriele Lenzini, Peter Yvain Anthony Ryan
  • Secure data exchange
    Patent number: 11032256
    Abstract: A computer implemented method of exchanging first valuable data at a first node for second valuable data from a second node, the method comprising the steps of: applying a first encryption to a first plurality of messages, at the first node, with a function having a commutative property, so as to create a blinded first plurality of messages; sending the blinded first plurality of messages from the first node to the second node, wherein the first valuable data is concealed in one message of the blinded first plurality of messages; receiving a blinded second plurality of messages at the first node, wherein the second valuable data is concealed in one message of the blinded second plurality of messages and the blinded second plurality of messages have been encrypted with a second encryption; in response to receiving the blinded second plurality of messages at the first node, applying a third encryption to the blinded second plurality of messages with a function having a commutative property so as to create do
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: Oxford University Innovation Limited
    Inventors: Andrew William Roscoe, Peter Yvain Anthony Ryan