Inventor · Austin, TX, US

Nicholas Graf

25Patents
14h-index
15Co-inventors
74Inventor score

Filing activity: May 9, 2003 → Oct 28, 2013

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US7328325B1 System and method for hierarchical storage mapping Physics 111 Expired
US8701192B1 Behavior based signatures Physics 57 Active
US7334157B1 Restore of data to a computer system having different hardware Physics 55 Expired
US8549626B1 Method and apparatus for securing a computer from malicious threats through generic remediation Electricity 38 Active
US7769990B1 Using a monitoring process to update system configuration settings during restore operations Physics 35 Active
US7680957B1 Computer system configuration representation and transfer Physics 34 Active
US8776227B1 User interface based malware detection Physics 31 Active
US7293272B1 Device driver processing for automated system restores Physics 29 Expired
US8782790B1 Signature creation for malicious network traffic Electricity 29 Active
US8776196B1 Systems and methods for automatically detecting and preventing phishing attacks Electricity 27 Active
US8132186B1 Automatic detection of hardware and device drivers during restore operations Physics 18 Active
US8336100B1 Systems and methods for using reputation data to detect packed malware Physics 17 Active
US7496783B1 Merging cluster nodes during a restore Physics 17 Active
US8904538B1 Systems and methods for user-directed malware remediation Physics 14 Active
US7941814B1 Device driver processing for automated system restores Physics 9 Active
US9152790B1 Systems and methods for detecting fraudulent software applications that generate misleading notifications Physics 9 Active
US8352409B1 Systems and methods for improving the effectiveness of decision trees Physics 8 Active
US8844024B1 Systems and methods for using tiered signing certificates to manage the behavior of executables Physics 7 Active
US8418223B1 Systems and methods for updating parental-control settings Physics 7 Active
US8627463B1 Systems and methods for using reputation information to evaluate the trustworthiness of files obtained via torrent transactions Physics 7 Active
US8566950B1 Method and apparatus for detecting potentially misleading visual representation objects to secure a computer Physics 2 Active
US8621632B1 Systems and methods for locating malware Electricity 2 Active
US9733929B1 Systems and methods for restoring applications Physics 2 Active
US9350755B1 Method and apparatus for detecting malicious software transmission through a web portal Physics 1 Active
US9661004B1 Systems and methods for using reputation information to evaluate the trustworthiness of files obtained via torrent transactions Physics 0 Active

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