US Patent Issued to Trend Micro on May 5 for "Identifying malicious contents that are stored in distributed hash table networks" (Philippine, French, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,619,723, issued on May 5, was assigned to Trend Micro Inc. (Tokyo).

"Identifying malicious contents that are stored in distributed hash table networks" was invented by Vincenzo Ciancaglini (Rueil-Malmaison, France), Morton Swimmer (Wedel, Germany) and Roel Sotto Reyes (Pasig, Philippines).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method and system for evaluating contents stored in a Distributed Hash Table (DHT) network are described. Contents are stored as chunks across nodes of the DHT network. Contents are subjected to cybersecurity evaluations to generate risk histories of the chunks. A reputation of a target content is determined based on correspo...