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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Jan. 29, 2019

Filed:

Apr. 29, 2016
Applicant:

Symantec Corporation, Mountain View, CA (US);

Inventors:

Vishal Bajpai, Mountain View, CA (US);

Preeti Agarwal, Los Altos, CA (US);

Assignee:

Symantec Corporation, Mountain View, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 29/06 (2006.01); H04L 12/40 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 63/1416 (2013.01); H04L 63/1425 (2013.01); H04L 2012/40215 (2013.01); H04L 2012/40273 (2013.01);
Abstract

The disclosed computer-implemented method for detecting suspicious microcontroller messages may include (1) observing a typical interval at which messages are sent over a network by a microcontroller, (2) identifying a message sent over the network by the microcontroller, (3) determining that the interval between the message and the previous message sent by the microcontroller does not comprise the typical interval, and (4) categorizing the message as a suspicious message in response to determining that the interval does not comprise the typical interval. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.


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