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William E. Sobel
Also filed as: SOBEL WILLIAM · SOBEL WILLIAM E
181 granted patents·9 pending applications·5,789 citations·filing 1998–2017
99Inventor score
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190 records- 0199US8584234B1Secure network cache contentSOBEL WILLIAM E·Filed 2010·Granted Nov 12, 2013·288 cites·19 claims
- 0299US8561181B1Detecting man-in-the-middle attacks via security transitionsHERNACKI BRIAN·Filed 2008·Granted Oct 15, 2013·248 cites·20 claims
- 0398US8977842B1Hypervisor enabled secure inter-container communicationsMCCORKENDALE BRUCE·Filed 2010·Granted Mar 10, 2015·73 cites·19 claims
- 0498US8499354B1Preventing malware from abusing application dataSATISH SOURABH·Filed 2011·Granted Jul 30, 2013·97 cites·19 claims
- 0598US8353021B1Determining firewall rules for an application on a client based on firewall rules and reputations of other clientsSYMANTEC CORP·Filed 2008·Granted Jan 8, 2013·87 cites·20 claims
- 0698US8321934B1Anti-phishing early warning system based on end user data submission statisticsCOOLEY SHAUN·Filed 2008·Granted Nov 27, 2012·98 cites·12 claims
- 0798US7827607B2Enhanced client compliancy using database of security sensor dataSYMANTEC CORP·Filed 2005·Granted Nov 2, 2010·80 cites·20 claims
- 0898US7647622B1Dynamic security policy through use of empirical security eventsSYMANTEC CORP·Filed 2005·Granted Jan 12, 2010·90 cites·17 claims
- 0998US7555551B1Automatic controllable deployment of software updatesSYMANTEC CORP·Filed 2005·Granted Jun 30, 2009·104 cites·29 claims
- 1098US7529785B1Efficient backups using dynamically shared storage pools in peer-to-peer networksSYMANTEC CORP·Filed 2006·Granted May 5, 2009·250 cites·26 claims
- 1198US7159149B2Heuristic detection and termination of fast spreading network worm attacksSYMANTEC CORP·Filed 2002·Granted Jan 2, 2007·383 cites·34 claims
- 1297US8413146B1Hypervisor assisted single instance data access by multiple virtual machinesMCCORKENDALE BRUCE·Filed 2010·Granted Apr 2, 2013·78 cites·20 claims
- 1397US8407471B1Selecting a network service for communicating with a serverSOBEL WILLIAM E·Filed 2010·Granted Mar 26, 2013·54 cites·17 claims
- 1497US8341734B1Method and system to audit physical copy data leakageHERNACKI BRIAN·Filed 2008·Granted Dec 25, 2012·60 cites·21 claims
- 1597US8131846B1Global, location-aware computer securityHERNACKI BRIAN·Filed 2009·Granted Mar 6, 2012·61 cites·19 claims
- 1697US7836501B2Client compliancy with self-policing clientsSYMANTEC CORP·Filed 2006·Granted Nov 16, 2010·55 cites·20 claims
- 1797US7739494B1SSL validation and stripping using trustworthiness factorsSYMANTEC CORP·Filed 2005·Granted Jun 15, 2010·72 cites·20 claims
- 1897US7293063B1System utilizing updated spam signatures for performing secondary signature-based analysis of a held e-mail to improve spam email detectionSYMANTEC CORP·Filed 2003·Granted Nov 6, 2007·174 cites·19 claims
- 1997US7124272B1File usage history log for improved placement of files in differential rate memory according to frequency of utilizations and volatility of allocation spaceSYMANTEC CORP·Filed 2003·Granted Oct 17, 2006·177 cites·40 claims
- 2096US10623289B1Systems and methods for detecting nonfunctional endpoint devicesSYMANTEC CORP·Filed 2016·Granted Apr 14, 2020·16 cites·20 claims
- 2196US8909845B1Systems and methods for identifying candidate duplicate memory pages in a virtual environmentSOBEL WILLIAM E·Filed 2010·Granted Dec 9, 2014·44 cites·14 claims
- 2296US8856916B1User associated geo-location based reauthorization to protect confidential informationSOBEL WILLIAM E·Filed 2012·Granted Oct 7, 2014·26 cites·20 claims
- 2396US8424007B1Prioritizing tasks from virtual machinesHERNACKI BRIAN·Filed 2008·Granted Apr 16, 2013·65 cites·20 claims
- 2496US8225401B2Methods and systems for detecting man-in-the-browser attacksSOBEL WILLIAM E·Filed 2008·Granted Jul 17, 2012·53 cites·20 claims
- 2596US8219983B1Systems and methods for providing guidance on the potential impact of application and operating-system changes on a computing systemSOBEL WILLIAM E·Filed 2008·Granted Jul 10, 2012·53 cites·18 claims
- 2696US7739738B1Enabling clean file cache persistence using dual-boot detectionSYMANTEC CORP·Filed 2006·Granted Jun 15, 2010·63 cites·20 claims
- 2795US10169577B1Systems and methods for detecting modification attacks on shared physical memorySYMANTEC CORP·Filed 2017·Granted Jan 1, 2019·14 cites·20 claims
- 2895US8762980B1Rolling incremental updatesSOBEL WILLIAM E·Filed 2010·Granted Jun 24, 2014·35 cites·18 claims
- 2995US8656490B1Safe and secure access to dynamic domain name systemsSOBEL WILLIAM E·Filed 2010·Granted Feb 18, 2014·28 cites·22 claims
- 3095US8429180B1Cooperative identification of malicious remote objectsSOBEL WILLIAM E·Filed 2008·Granted Apr 23, 2013·48 cites·20 claims
- 3195US8281363B1Methods and systems for enforcing network access control in a virtual environmentHERNACKI BRIAN·Filed 2008·Granted Oct 2, 2012·40 cites·20 claims
- 3295US8214900B1Method and apparatus for monitoring a computer to detect operating system process manipulationSATISH SOURABH·Filed 2008·Granted Jul 3, 2012·44 cites·18 claims
- 3395US7831412B1Systems and methods for providing guidance by category on the potential impact of an application on the health of a computing systemSYMANTEC CORP·Filed 2008·Granted Nov 9, 2010·41 cites·19 claims
- 3495US7437764B1Vulnerability assessment of disk imagesSYMANTEC CORP·Filed 2003·Granted Oct 14, 2008·136 cites·4 claims
- 3595US7366919B1Use of geo-location data for spam detectionSYMANTEC CORP·Filed 2003·Granted Apr 29, 2008·98 cites·28 claims
- 3694US10528736B1Systems and methods for detecting preparatory-stages of rowhammer attacksSYMANTEC CORP·Filed 2017·Granted Jan 7, 2020·11 cites·20 claims
- 3794US10210347B2Techniques for managing privacy of a network communicationSYMANTEC CORP·Filed 2015·Granted Feb 19, 2019·15 cites·19 claims
- 3894US9183377B1Unauthorized account monitoring system and methodSOBEL WILLIAM E·Filed 2008·Granted Nov 10, 2015·51 cites·15 claims
- 3994US8910155B1Methods and systems for injecting endpoint management agents into virtual machinesSOBEL WILLIAM E·Filed 2010·Granted Dec 9, 2014·26 cites·20 claims
- 4094US8561142B1Clustered device access control based on physical and temporal proximity to the userSOBEL WILLIAM E·Filed 2012·Granted Oct 15, 2013·25 cites·20 claims
- 4194US8499063B1Uninstall and system performance based software application reputationSATISH SOURABH·Filed 2008·Granted Jul 30, 2013·36 cites·16 claims
- 4294US8468608B1Enforcing digital rights management in a heterogeneous environmentHERNACKI BRIAN·Filed 2009·Granted Jun 18, 2013·35 cites·17 claims
- 4394US8281410B1Methods and systems for providing resource-access informationSOBEL WILLIAM E·Filed 2008·Granted Oct 2, 2012·38 cites·19 claims
- 4494US7334005B2Controllable deployment of software updatesSYMANTEC CORP·Filed 2005·Granted Feb 19, 2008·35 cites·26 claims
- 4593US10592662B1Systems and methods for altering time dataCA INC·Filed 2017·Granted Mar 17, 2020·9 cites·20 claims
- 4693US8745742B1Methods and systems for processing web content encoded with malicious codeSATISH SOURABH·Filed 2008·Granted Jun 3, 2014·31 cites·20 claims
- 4793US8402528B1Portable firewall adapterMCCORKENDALE BRUCE·Filed 2004·Granted Mar 19, 2013·89 cites·23 claims
- 4893US8332947B1Security threat reporting in light of local security toolsBREGMAN MARK·Filed 2006·Granted Dec 11, 2012·58 cites·20 claims
- 4993US8281388B1Hardware secured portable storageSOBEL WILLIAM E·Filed 2008·Granted Oct 2, 2012·34 cites·19 claims
- 5093US8239953B1Applying differing security policies for users who contribute differently to machine hygieneSATISH SOURABH·Filed 2009·Granted Aug 7, 2012·28 cites·14 claims
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