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Apparatus, method and article of manufacture for partially resisting hardware trojan induced data leakage in sequential logics
Issue Date: 2018-11-06Kwiat; Kevin, Kamhoua; Charles, Njilla; Laurent, Shi; Yiyu, Schulze; Travis
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION The relentless semiconductor scaling has resulted in a tremendous increase in manufacturing cost. As a result, many design houses have gone fabless and rely on foreign low-cost fabrication facilities to manufacture their products. Yet the globalization of semiconductor fabrication has posed a new security threat: as the trustworthiness of these facilities remain unknown, malicious parties or attackers can possibly insert malicious hardware, commonly referred to as... Read More
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BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION The relentless semiconductor scaling has resulted in a tremendous increase in manufacturing cost. As a result, many design houses have gone fabless and rely on foreign low-cost fabrication facilities to manufacture their products. Yet the globalization of semiconductor fabrication has posed a new security threat: as the trustworthiness of these facilities remain unknown, malicious parties or attackers can possibly insert malicious hardware, commonly referred to as... Read More
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System and article of manufacture to analyze twitter data to discover suspicious users and malicious content
Issue Date: 2019-07-09Rao; Praveen (Overland Park, KS), Kamhoua; Charles (Liverpool, NY), Njilla; Laurent (Rome, NY), Kwiat; Kevin (Whitesboro, NY)
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION The power of social media is undeniable: may it be in a marketing or political campaign, sharing breaking news, or during catastrophic events. Unfortunately, social media has also become a major weapon for launching cyberattacks on an organization and its people. By hacking into accounts of (popular) users, hackers can post false information, which can go viral and lead to economic damages and create havoc among people. Another major threat on social media is the... Read More
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BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION The power of social media is undeniable: may it be in a marketing or political campaign, sharing breaking news, or during catastrophic events. Unfortunately, social media has also become a major weapon for launching cyberattacks on an organization and its people. By hacking into accounts of (popular) users, hackers can post false information, which can go viral and lead to economic damages and create havoc among people. Another major threat on social media is the... Read More
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Apparatus, method and article of manufacture for partially resisting hardware trojan induced data leakage in sequential logics
Issue Date: 2018-11-06Kwiat; Kevin (Whitesboro, NY), Kamhoua; Charles (Liverpool, NY), Njilla; Laurent (Rome, NY), Shi; Yiyu (Granger, IN), Schulze; Travis (St. Louis, MO)
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION The relentless semiconductor scaling has resulted in a tremendous increase in manufacturing cost. As a result, many design houses have gone fabless and rely on foreign low-cost fabrication facilities to manufacture their products. Yet the globalization of semiconductor fabrication has posed a new security threat: as the trustworthiness of these facilities remain unknown, malicious parties or attackers can possibly insert malicious hardware, commonly referred to as... Read More
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BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION The relentless semiconductor scaling has resulted in a tremendous increase in manufacturing cost. As a result, many design houses have gone fabless and rely on foreign low-cost fabrication facilities to manufacture their products. Yet the globalization of semiconductor fabrication has posed a new security threat: as the trustworthiness of these facilities remain unknown, malicious parties or attackers can possibly insert malicious hardware, commonly referred to as... Read More
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Security method for allocation of virtual machines in a cloud computing network
Issue Date: 2017-11-28Kwiat; Luke, Kamhoua; Charles, Kwiat; Kevin
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION Cloud computing is the use of computing resources (hardware and software) delivered as a service over a network, such as the Internet. Cloud computing services can provide computational capacity, data storage, networking/routing via a large pool of shared resources operated by an independent provider. Since the computing resources are delivered over a network, and control of the physical resources are separated from control of the computing resources, cloud... Read More
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BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION Cloud computing is the use of computing resources (hardware and software) delivered as a service over a network, such as the Internet. Cloud computing services can provide computational capacity, data storage, networking/routing via a large pool of shared resources operated by an independent provider. Since the computing resources are delivered over a network, and control of the physical resources are separated from control of the computing resources, cloud... Read MoreView Full Patent
Method and apparatus for timing information flow in a distributed system
Issue Date: 2011-01-25Kwiat; Kevin A., Ravindran; Kaliappanadar, Sabbir; Ali S.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION This invention relates generally to distributed real-time information systems in which the data generated by source modules have timeliness constraints for dissemination by sink modules. Generally, an embedded system consists of a distributed real-time computation that collects data from the external environment and processes this data to reason about the system behavior [1]. An example is the deployment of radar devices in battle terrains to detect the movement of... Read More
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BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION This invention relates generally to distributed real-time information systems in which the data generated by source modules have timeliness constraints for dissemination by sink modules. Generally, an embedded system consists of a distributed real-time computation that collects data from the external environment and processes this data to reason about the system behavior [1]. An example is the deployment of radar devices in battle terrains to detect the movement of... Read MoreView Full Patent
Method and apparatus for improved security in distributed-environment voting
Issue Date: 2004-03-09Kwiat; Kevin A., Hardekopf; Benjamin C.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION This invention relates to distributed computer systems, fault-tolerance, and security. Replication and majority voting are the conventional methods for achieving fault-tolerance in distributed systems. The system consists of a set of redundant processors all working on the same task in parallel, then voting on the individual processors\' results to pick one as the correct answer. This technique was first proposed, in the context of electronic computing, by John von... Read More
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BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION This invention relates to distributed computer systems, fault-tolerance, and security. Replication and majority voting are the conventional methods for achieving fault-tolerance in distributed systems. The system consists of a set of redundant processors all working on the same task in parallel, then voting on the individual processors\' results to pick one as the correct answer. This technique was first proposed, in the context of electronic computing, by John von... Read MoreView Full Patent
Apparatus and method for reducing duration of timeout periods in fault-tolerant distributed computer
Issue Date: 2002-03-26Kwiat; Kevin Anthony
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION The present invention relates to a fault-tolerant distributed computer system, and, in particular, to a distributed computer system that relies upon timeout to detect if a component of the system has failed. That is, when the system waits more than a certain period of time for an action to occur, it declares something is wrong. The present invention makes use of statistical methods to improve the system\'s timeliness by reducing the duration of the waiting period... Read More
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BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION The present invention relates to a fault-tolerant distributed computer system, and, in particular, to a distributed computer system that relies upon timeout to detect if a component of the system has failed. That is, when the system waits more than a certain period of time for an action to occur, it declares something is wrong. The present invention makes use of statistical methods to improve the system\'s timeliness by reducing the duration of the waiting period... Read MoreView Full Patent
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