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Symantec Corporation

Tala Security, Inc.

Hemant Puri

Sanjay Sawhney

Naveen S Bisht

Anand K Antur

Anand Kashyap

Hans Van Rietschote

Scott D Schneider

Nishant Dani

Savithri N Dani

Pengpeng Wang

Swapnil Bhalode

Aanand Krishnan

Siddhesh Yawalkar

The technology described herein is directed towards a system that provides a user propagated search platform. The system maintains campaign data for offers that when active, are made available to users of the platform. When a user of a (typically mobile) device selectively attaches to an active offer, the user device clones that offer, and as the user device travels, propagates the clone of the offer to other users (their user devices) for potential attachment. Those other users can in turn attach to the clone, to facilitate further propagation. The campaign data, as provided by a campaign producer such as a merchant, can specify various parameters, including location areas for attachment and clone travel, start and end times for a campaign's offer, different zones that can control different clone-related actions, and incentives for a user to attach to and propagate a clone of an offer.

User propagated local messaging system

Techniques to facilitate operation of a centralized trust authority for web application components are disclosed herein. In at least one implementation, a plurality of web resources used to construct web applications is received. Over a secure application programming interface (API), component registration information associated with each of the plurality of web resources is received, provided by producers of the web resources. The plurality of web resources is analyzed to determine unique identities and security attributes for each of the web resources. A plurality of security risk factors is identified for each of the plurality of web resources based on the component registration information and the security attributes determined for each of the web resources. A security profile is generated for each of the plurality of web resources based on the security risk factors identified for each of the web resources.

Centralized trust authority for web application components

A computer-implemented method for enhancing social networking content may include 1) identifying social networking content accessed from a social networking site, 2) parsing the social networking content to identify at least one content item that is potentially referenced in at least one of a plurality of social networking sites, 3) searching the plurality of social networking sites for an additional content item that relates to the content item, and 4) enhancing the social networking content with the additional content item. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.

Systems and methods for enhancing social networking content

A computer-implemented method for using cloud-based storage to optimize data-storage operations may include: 1) receiving a request from a client device for instructions or directions for storing a data object, 2) accessing a data-placement policy that contains criteria for identifying storage systems suitable for storing the data object, 3) identifying, based at least in part on the data-placement policy, a plurality of storage systems for storing the data object, at least one of the storage systems including a third-party Internet-based storage system, and then 4) directing the client device to store the data object on the identified storage systems.

Systems and methods for using cloud-based storage to optimize data-storage operations

A computer-implemented method for monitoring a mobile-computing device using geo-location information is disclosed. The method may include a learning phase. During the learning phase, a user may be located within a first range of physical locations during a recurring time period. The method may include generating a location profile for a mobile-computing device of the user and receiving a device-monitoring policy for the mobile-computing device from an administrator. The location profile may correlate the first range of physical locations with the recurring time period. The method may further include detecting, after the learning phase, that the mobile-computing device is outside the first range of physical locations during a first instance of the recurring time period. The method may also include implementing the device-monitoring policy after detecting that the mobile-computing device is outside the first range of physical locations during the first instance of the recurring time period.

Systems and methods for monitoring a mobile-computing device using geo-location information

A method for reconfiguring network security devices coupled to a network directory services server, the network directory services server providing network directory services to the network security devices, includes the steps of storing configuration data for a first network security device at a pre-determined directory location, copying the configuration data from the predetermined directory location to a directory used by the first network security device using the network directory services in response to a first reconfigure request, and updating configuration of the first network security device according to the configuration data in the directory used by the first network security device.

Method and apparatus for reconfiguring and managing firewalls and security devices

A method for configuring a plurality of network security devices, includes the steps of providing a network directory services server providing network directory services to a plurality of network servers, each of the plurality of network servers coupled to one of the plurality of network security devices, implementing a security policy for the plurality of network security devices on the network directory services server, and using the network directory services to provide configuration information for the plurality of network security devices, in response to the security policy.

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Milpitas, CA, United States of America

Hemant Puri