Inventor · Mountain View, CA, US

Matthew Conover

48Patents
15h-index
27Co-inventors
77Inventor score

Filing activity: Jan 22, 2004 → Nov 1, 2021

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US8448165B1 System and method for logging operations of virtual machines Physics 139 Active
US7552479B1 Detecting shellcode that modifies IAT entries Physics 83 Active
US8225317B1 Insertion and invocation of virtual appliance agents through exception handling regions of virtual machines Physics 75 Active
US7272748B1 Method and apparatus to detect and recover from a stack frame corruption Physics 59 Expired
US8387046B1 Security driver for hypervisors and operating systems of virtualized datacenters Physics 55 Active
US8938782B2 Systems and methods for providing network access control in virtual environments Physics 48 Active
US10122752B1 Detecting and preventing crypto-ransomware attacks against data Electricity 41 Active
US8429745B1 Systems and methods for data loss prevention on mobile computing systems Physics 40 Active
US8464254B1 Tracking storage operations of virtual machines Physics 38 Active
US9003402B1 Method and system for injecting function calls into a virtual machine Physics 33 Active
US7945953B1 Method to identify buffer overflows and RLIBC attacks Physics 30 Active
US7617534B1 Detection of SYSENTER/SYSCALL hijacking Physics 27 Active
US7975260B1 Method of direct access and manipulation of debuggee memory from debugger Physics 22 Active
US7328323B1 Heap buffer overflow exploitation prevention system and method Physics 19 Expired
US8397242B1 System and method for managing operations within virtual machines Physics 17 Active
US7607173B1 Method and apparatus for preventing rootkit installation Physics 13 Active
US7284276B2 Return-to-LIBC attack detection using branch trace records system and method Physics 12 Expired
US7487548B1 Granular access control method and system Physics 12 Active
US7552477B1 Detecting return-to-LIBC buffer overflows via dynamic disassembly of offsets Physics 11 Active
US7752242B1 Executing unmanaged content in a managed execution environment Physics 9 Active
US8037526B1 Detecting buffer overflows using frame pointer characteristics Physics 6 Active
US8838913B1 System and method for locating a memory page in a guest virtual machine Physics 5 Active
US9158561B2 Systems and methods for modifying an operating system for a virtual machine Physics 4 Active
US7296138B1 Method and apparatus to hook shared libraries across all processes on windows Physics 3 Expired
US8065567B1 Systems and methods for recording behavioral information of an unverified component Physics 3 Active

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