Finjan Mobile, Inc.

Jules Panopoulos

Timothy J Shipman

Rudolph Mutter

Michael Godlewski

Alexander Lin Kremer

Geoffrey House

Lee McDole

Julie Mar-Spinola

Scot Robinson

Patrick Conlin

Winnie Tong

Bay Lee Feore

Anthony Scherba

Sang Hui Michael Kim

Lee Mcdole

A computer readable medium causing a processor to evaluate a URL: when an evaluation resides in a cache, determine whether the URL is safe based on the evaluation, and when an evaluation does not reside in cache: perform an evaluation for the URL using one or more virus scanners, store the evaluation in the cache and determine whether the URL is safe based on the evaluation, when the URL is safe, load and display the web page for the URL, and when the URL is not safe, block the web page for the URL from being loaded and displayed, further determine whether a QA check criterion is met, if so, send the URL to an evaluator for behavioral analysis of the web page of the URL, and store results of the behavioral analysis of the web page of the URL, received from the evaluator, in a QA database.

URL evaluation for mobile web browsers

A mobile device including a biometric or passcode scanner, scanning a biometric or passcode of a user of the mobile device, a biometric or passcode validator, validating the biometric data or passcode, a connection controller logging in to a secure network, and an access requestor, submitting to a server computer via a connection over the secure network, an access request for secure data, access to which is controlled by the server, and prompting the user to enter a biometric or to enter a passcode, wherein the biometric or passcode scanner scans the biometric or passcode entered by the user, the biometric or passcode validator validates the scanned biometric or passcode, and contingent upon the validating being affirmative, the access requestor submits to the server over the secure network, a request that the server generate an authentication for the mobile device to access the secure data.

Authorization of authentication

A mobile browser embedded in a smartphone operative to open a secure private session with a server using an IP address of the smartphone, including a VPN connector integrated within a mobile browser such that the VPN connector loads automatically upon opening the browser, operative to connect the smartphone to a secure VPN server and to establish a virtual IP address for the smartphone, the virtual IP address corresponding to the location of the VPN server, wherein the VPN connector enables the browser to operate in three modes; namely, a VPN connection alone without browsing, browsing without a VPN connection, and browsing with a VPN connection, and a switch operative to change a current IP address of the smartphone used by the mobile browser from a non-VPN IP address to the virtual IP address of the VPN server, in a seamless manner without interrupting a current session with a server.

Secure and private mobile web browser

A method for blocking web page trackers by a web browser of a mobile device, including loading a web page on a mobile device, scanning the web page to detect scripts in the web page, for each detected script, comparing content of the script with a list of URL connections, to detect trackers present in the script, each URL connection being associated with a corresponding tracker, storing the detected trackers, displaying the stored trackers to a user, enabling a user to selectively block, via said mobile device, one or more of the displayed trackers, and reloading the web page, comprising, for each selected tracker to block, rejecting the URL connection corresponding to the selected tracker.

Detection and blocking of web trackers for mobile browsers

A mobile web browser embedded in a smartphone operative to open a secure and private session with a web server on the Internet via one or more cell towers, using a mobile IP address of the smartphone, the mobile web browser including a VPN connector operative to connect the smartphone to a secure VPN server and to establish a virtual IP address for the smartphone, the virtual IP address corresponding to the location of the VPN server, a switch operable to change a current IP address of the smartphone used by the mobile web browser from a non-VPN mobile IP address to the virtual IP address of the VPN server, in a seamless manner without interrupting a current session with a web server, a URL content scanner causing a URL of a web page to be scanned for potential malware, a URL blocker, a tracker scanner and a tracker blocker.

An electronic device including a memory storing at least one of biometric or passcode data of a user, and a processor (i) requesting access of data over the secure network, wherein access to the data is controlled by a server, (ii) scanning biometric or passcode data of the user and validating the scanned biometric or passcode data with the biometric or passcode data of the user stored in said memory, (iii) validating the biometric or passcode data of the user, and (iv) contingent upon the validation being affirmative, submitting a request to the server to generate an authorized area of authentication (AAA) that includes the current location of the electronic device, wherein the server enables access to the secure data only when the location of the electronic device remains within the AAA.

Authorized areas of authentication

An electronic device including a memory storing biometric or passcode data of a user, and a processor, scanning biometric or passcode data of the user and validating the scanned biometric or passcode data with the stored biometric or passcode data, dynamically identifying a current location of the electronic device, accessing a secure network, requesting access of data over the secure network, wherein access to the data is controlled by a server and the server enables access to the secure data only when the current location of the electronic device is within an authorized area of authentication (AAA), and if the current location of the mobile device is not within an existing AAA, the biometric or passcode data of the user is validated and contingent upon the validation being affirmative, submitting a request to the server to generate a temporary AAA that includes the current location of the electronic device.

A secure access system, including a stationary computing device that controls access to secure data over a secure network, including an authorized area of authentication (AAA) generator, generating an AAA for administering the secure data, an AAA validator, validating a mobile computing device that a request to access the secure data over the secure network, by verifying that a current location of the mobile device is within the AAA, and an access controller, enabling the mobile device to access the secure data, only in response to the validator affirmatively validating the mobile device, and a mobile computing device including a location identifier, dynamically identifying a current location of the mobile device, a connection controller for logging into the secure network, and an access requestor, submitting to the access controller via the secure network (i) an access request for the secure data, and (ii) the current location of the mobile device.

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Mountain View, CA, United States of America

Jules Panopoulos