Patents by Inventor Yugang Du

Yugang Du 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).

  • Sandboxing protection for endpoints
    Patent number: 10075457
    Abstract: Methods and systems for integrating a sandboxing service and distributed threat intelligence within an endpoint security application are provided. According to one embodiment, The method includes file system or operating system activity relating to a file accessible to an endpoint system is monitored by an endpoint security application running on the endpoint system. The endpoint security application determines whether the file has been previously analyzed for a threat status. When a result of the determining is negative, then the endpoint security application requests the threat status by submitting the file to a remote threat analysis engine with a request to perform a threat analysis on the file. Based on the determined threat status, the endpoint security application selectively allows or disallows performance of the file system or operating system activity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: Fortinet, Inc.
    Inventors: Yannick Dubuc, Hai Liu, Heng Du, Yugang Du, Jonathan K. Seanor, Weining Wu, GangGang Zhang, Ronald Foo
  • SANDBOXING PROTECTION FOR ENDPOINTS
    Publication number: 20170289179
    Abstract: Methods and systems for integrating a sandboxing service and distributed threat intelligence within an endpoint security application are provided. According to one embodiment, The method includes file system or operating system activity relating to a file accessible to an endpoint system is monitored by an endpoint security application running on the endpoint system. The endpoint security application determines whether the file has been previously analyzed for a threat status. When a result of the determining is negative, then the endpoint security application requests the threat status by submitting the file to a remote threat analysis engine with a request to perform a threat analysis on the file. Based on the determined threat status, the endpoint security application selectively allows or disallows performance of the file system or operating system activity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2016
    Publication date: October 5, 2017
    Applicant: Fortinet, Inc.
    Inventors: Yannick Dubuc, Hai Liu, Heng DU, Yugang Du, Jonathan K. Seanor, Weining Wu, GangGang Zhang, Ronald Foo