Inventor · Redmond, WA, US

Anil Thomas

36Patents
12h-index
93Co-inventors
84Inventor score

Filing activity: Jun 30, 2000 → Sep 13, 2023

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US6618735B1 System and method for protecting shared system files Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 109 Expired
US6802025B1 Restoration of a computer to a previous working state Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 96 Expired
US7953883B2 Failover mechanism for real-time packet streaming sessions Electricity 50 Active
US7765400B2 Aggregation of the knowledge base of antivirus software Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 38 Active
US7765410B2 System and method of aggregating the knowledge base of antivirus software applications Physics 34 Active
US8799190B2 Graph-based malware classification based on file relationships Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 32 Active
US8516583B2 Aggregating the knowledge base of computer systems to proactively protect a computer from malware Physics 26 Active
US7478237B2 System and method of allowing user mode applications with access to file data Physics 24 Expired
US7716743B2 Privacy friendly malware quarantines Physics 19 Active
US7861296B2 System and method for efficiently scanning a file for malware Physics 15 Active
US10546393B2 Compression in machine learning and deep learning processing Physics 13 Active
US7676845B2 System and method of selectively scanning a file on a computing device for malware Physics 13 Active
US7882561B2 System and method of caching decisions on when to scan for malware Physics 12 Active
US8955133B2 Applying antimalware logic without revealing the antimalware logic to adversaries Physics 11 Active
US8621628B2 Protecting user mode processes from improper tampering or termination Physics 8 Active
US8417962B2 Device booting with an initial protection component Physics 7 Active
US8626875B2 Stream server selection based on feedback information from a client Electricity 7 Active
US9436826B2 Discovering malicious input files and performing automatic and distributed remediation Physics 5 Active
US8194149B2 Infrared-aided depth estimation Electricity 4 Active
US8161557B2 System and method of caching decisions on when to scan for malware Physics 3 Active
US9785470B2 Memory management model and interface for unmodified applications Physics 2 Active
US8973135B2 Selectively scanning objects for infection by malware Physics 1 Active
US8667175B2 Server selection for routing content to a client using application layer redirection Electricity 1 Active
US9262423B2 Large scale file storage in cloud computing Physics 1 Active
US8381300B2 Offline extraction of configuration data Physics 1 Active

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