[June 19, 2013] Raytheon Assigned Patent for System and Method for Host-level Malware Detection Tweet (Targeted News Service Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) By Targeted News Service ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- Raytheon, Waltham, Mass., has been assigned a patent (8,468,602) developed by six co-inventors for a "system and method for host-level malware detection." The co-inventors are Monty D. McDougal, Plano, Texas, Brian N. Smith, Richardson, Texas, Keven K. Kalkbrenner, Dallas, Bradley T. Ford, Wylie, Texas, Randy S. Jennings, Plano, Texas, and William E. Sterns, Wylie, Texas. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "According to one embodiment, a computer-implemented method includes: accessing a set of configuration parameters, accessing a set of identifiers of files known not to be malware, and accessing a set of identifiers of files known to be malware. Further, the method includes: comparing a first file to the set of configuration parameters, determining that a first hash of the first file is not in the set of identifiers of files known not to be malware and that the first hash is not in the set of identifiers of files known to be malware, and sending the at least one file and information related to the at least one file to be analyzed for malware. The method includes deleting the set of configuration parameters, the set of identifiers of files known not to be malware, and the set of identifiers of files known to be malware after sending the first file." The patent application was filed on March 8, 2010 (12/719,614). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=8,468,602&OS=8,468,602&RS=8,468,602 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. SR0619HP0619-891561 (c) 2013 Targeted News Service [ Back To TMCnet.com's Homepage ]