Inventor · Santa Monica, CA, US

Kent E. Griffin

28Patents
19h-index
34Co-inventors
81Inventor score

Filing activity: Jun 27, 1996 → Apr 22, 2020

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US8028338B1 Modeling goodware characteristics to reduce false positive malware signatures Physics 314 Active
US5864342A Method and system for rendering graphical objects to image chunks Physics 282 Expired
US8239944B1 Reducing malware signature set size through server-side processing Electricity 281 Active
US6005582A Method and system for texture mapping images with anisotropic filtering Physics 269 Expired
US5886701A Graphics rendering device and method for operating same Physics 224 Expired
US6008820A Processor for controlling the display of rendered image layers and method for controlling same Physics 146 Expired
US5990904A Method and system for merging pixel fragments in a graphics rendering system Physics 141 Expired
US5880737A Method and system for accessing texture data in environments with high latency in a graphics rendering system Physics 80 Expired
US8826439B1 Encoding machine code instructions for static feature based malware clustering Physics 59 Active
US8555083B1 Systems and methods for protecting against unauthorized access of encrypted data during power-management modes Physics 41 Active
US8296848B1 Control flow redirection and analysis for detecting vulnerability exploitation Physics 40 Active
US8429745B1 Systems and methods for data loss prevention on mobile computing systems Physics 40 Active
US7962961B1 Responding to detected application vulnerability exploits Physics 39 Active
US8291497B1 Systems and methods for byte-level context diversity-based automatic malware signature generation Physics 36 Active
US8312537B1 Reputation based identification of false positive malware detections Electricity 24 Active
US8321942B1 Selecting malware signatures based on malware diversity Physics 24 Active
US8239948B1 Selecting malware signatures to reduce false-positive detections Electricity 23 Active
US8312536B2 Hygiene-based computer security Physics 21 Active
US9652616B1 Techniques for classifying non-process threats Physics 19 Active
US8572007B1 Systems and methods for classifying unknown files/spam based on a user actions, a file's prevalence within a user community, and a predetermined prevalence threshold Physics 18 Active
US7774470B1 Load balancing using a distributed hash Electricity 14 Active
US8037529B1 Buffer overflow vulnerability detection and patch generation system and method Physics 11 Active
US8214365B1 Measuring confidence of file clustering and clustering based file classification Physics 11 Active
US8881287B1 Systems and methods for library function identification in automatic malware signature generation Electricity 6 Active
US8677346B1 Providing installer package information to a user Physics 6 Active

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