Inventor · Sunnyvale, CA, US

Daniel J. Quinlan

64Patents
13h-index
30Co-inventors
80Inventor score

Filing activity: May 28, 2004 → Sep 30, 2019

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US9386104B2 Preventing extraction of secret information over a compromised encrypted connection Electricity 303 Active
US7854007B2 Identifying threats in electronic messages Electricity 302 Active
US7712136B2 Controlling a message quarantine Electricity 281 Active
US7748038B2 Method and apparatus for managing computer virus outbreaks Physics 130 Active
US7849142B2 Managing connections, messages, and directory harvest attacks at a server Electricity 73 Active
US9729572B1 Remote remediation of malicious files Electricity 57 Active
US7873695B2 Managing connections and messages at a server by associating different actions for both different senders and different recipients Physics 37 Active
US7921063B1 Evaluating electronic mail messages based on probabilistic analysis Electricity 36 Active
US7836133B2 Detecting unwanted electronic mail messages based on probabilistic analysis of referenced resources Electricity 27 Active
US9258328B2 Identifying malicious devices within a computer network Electricity 26 Active
US7756930B2 Techniques for determining the reputation of a message sender Electricity 24 Active
US9485276B2 Dynamic service handling using a honeypot Electricity 15 Active
US10091222B1 Detecting data exfiltration as the data exfiltration occurs or after the data exfiltration occurs Electricity 14 Active
US9015839B2 Identifying malicious devices within a computer network Electricity 13 Active
US9106693B2 Attack detection and prevention using global device fingerprinting Electricity 12 Active
US9922193B2 Identifying an evasive malicious object based on a behavior delta Physics 11 Active
US9594906B1 Confirming a malware infection on a client device using a remote access connection tool to identify a malicious file based on fuzzy hashes Physics 11 Active
US9413782B1 Malware detection using internal malware detection operations Electricity 10 Active
US9680845B2 Detecting a malicious file infection via sandboxing Electricity 10 Active
US7877493B2 Method of validating requests for sender reputation information Electricity 9 Active
US9740862B1 Identifying malware based on a relationship between a downloader file and a downloaded file Physics 8 Active
US9477837B1 Configuring a sandbox environment for malware testing Physics 7 Active
US7548544B2 Method of determining network addresses of senders of electronic mail messages Electricity 7 Expired
US10075453B2 Detecting suspicious files resident on a network Electricity 7 Active
US9838427B2 Dynamic service handling using a honeypot Electricity 6 Active

Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.