Inventor · Aylesbury, GB

Igor Muttik

100Patents
19h-index
101Co-inventors
89Inventor score

Filing activity: Mar 16, 2000 → Aug 29, 2022

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US6907396B1 Detecting computer viruses or malicious software by patching instructions into an emulator Physics 310 Expired
US6775780B1 Detecting malicious software by analyzing patterns of system calls generated during emulation Physics 196 Expired
US9197654B2 Rootkit detection by using HW resources to detect inconsistencies in network traffic Electricity 126 Active
US8549635B2 Malware detection using external call characteristics Physics 104 Active
US7346781B2 Initiating execution of a computer program from an encrypted version of a computer program Physics 77 Expired
US6785820B1 System, method and computer program product for conditionally updating a security program Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 61 Expired
US7210041B1 System and method for identifying a macro virus family using a macro virus definitions database Physics 51 Expired
US7243373B2 On-access malware scanning Electricity 45 Expired
US9384148B2 Detection of unauthorized memory modification and access using transactional memory Physics 41 Active
US6663000B1 Validating components of a malware scanner Physics 39 Expired
US6963978B1 Distributed system and method for conducting a comprehensive search for malicious code in software Physics 32 Expired
US11049039B2 Static and dynamic device profile reputation using cloud-based machine learning Physics 31 Active
US10191794B2 Monitoring and analyzing watchdog messages in an internet of things network environment Electricity 26 Active
US8769692B1 System and method for detecting malware by transforming objects and analyzing different views of objects Electricity 22 Active
US7000250B1 Virtual opened share mode system with virus protection Physics 22 Expired
US11431561B2 Internet of things Electricity 21 Active
US8171551B2 Malware detection using external call characteristics Physics 19 Active
US6836860B2 Data scanning for updatable predefined properties Physics 19 Expired
US7266844B2 Heuristic detection of polymorphic computer viruses based on redundancy in viral code Physics 19 Expired
US8627458B2 Detecting malicious computer program activity using external program calls with dynamic rule sets Physics 18 Active
US7739100B1 Emulation system, method and computer program product for malware detection by back-stepping in program code Physics 16 Active
US7421587B2 Detecting computer programs within packed computer files Physics 16 Expired
US7440471B1 System and method for facilitating IPv6 protocol usage by an application program Electricity 15 Expired
US7024432B2 Updating computer files on wireless data processing devices Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 13 Expired
US10382454B2 Data mining algorithms adopted for trusted execution environment Electricity 12 Active

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