Mcafee, Inc.

Kaushal Kumar Dhruw

Dattatraya Kulkarni

Srikanth Nalluri

Venkatasubrahmanyam Krishnapur

Kamlesh Halder

Raja Sinha

Susmita Nayak

Yogesh Jain

Kranthikumar Gadde

Aravind Doss

Sailaja K Shankar

Krishnapur Narasimhamurthy Venkatasubrahmanyam

Mitesh Kumar

Shailaja Shankar

Venkata Krishnan Nagarajan

The present disclosure relates to a system and method for performing anti-malware scanning of data files that is data-centric rather than device-centric. In the example, a plurality of computing devices are connected via a network. An originating device creates or first receives data, and scans the data for malware. After scanning the data, the originating device creates and attaches to the data a metadata record including the results of the malware scan. The originating device may also scan the data for malware contextually-relevant to a second device.

Digital protection that travels with data

The present disclosure relates to a system and method for providing a service on a wearable device where the wearable device is limited in its functionality in some way when compared with a companion device. In particular, the disclosure describes use cases for configuring the wearable device, and use cases for configuring a wearable device and performing service application functions on the wearable device while leveraging a companion device.

Mechanisms for conserving resources of wearable devices

Code of a particular application is analyzed against a semantic model of a software development kit of a particular platform. The semantic model associates a plurality of application behaviors with respective application programming interface (API) calls of the particular platform. A set of behaviors of the particular application is identified based on the analysis of the code and a particular one of the set of behaviors is identified as an undesired behavior. The particular application can be automatically modified to remediate the undesired behavior. The particular application can be assigned to one of a plurality of device modes, and access to the particular application on a user device can be based on which of the plurality of device modes is active on the user device.

Mobile application management

Wearable device task offloading to conserve processing resources

Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed for secure distributed backup for personal device and cloud data. An example method disclosed herein includes, in response to a request for a file from a client device, obtaining a map corresponding to the file from a remote device, and requesting, by executing an instruction with a processor, a first file chunk from a first cloud storage location based on the map. The example method further includes requesting, by executing an instruction with the processor, a second file chunk from a second cloud storage location based on the map, and generating, by executing an instruction with the processor, the file by combining the first file chunk and the second file chunk. The example method also includes causing transmission of the file to the client device.

Secure distributed backup for personal device and cloud data

A safety event is determined as affecting a user based at least in part context data collected at a user device associated with the user. In some aspects, context data is detected from sensors on the client device, the context data describing a present context of the user. A deviation of the present context from a historical context is determined to be beyond a threshold. Determining that the deviation is beyond the threshold can be determined to correspond to a safety event potentially jeopardizing safety of the user. In some aspects, an action can be launched in response to determining the safety event.

Personal safety and emergency services

The present disclosure relates to a system and method for performing antimalware scanning of data files that is data-centric rather than device-centric, In the example, a plurality of computing devices are connected via a network. An originating device creates or first receives data, and scans the data for malware, After scanning the data, the originating device creates and attaches to the data a metadata record including the results of the malware scan, The originating device may also scan the data for malware contextually-relevant to a second device.

The present disclosure relates to a system and method for providing a secure context exchange cloud service which enables context information to be shared among devices, and providing a safety application which utilizes the context information being shared. In one example, the context exchange cloud service provides secure exchange of the context information, which in turn enables a safety application to enhance personal safety.

Secure context sharing for priority calling and various personal safety mechanisms

Securely distributing a backup file includes identifying a file to be stored, generating a plurality of file chunks from the file, transmitting from a first device, each of the plurality of file chunks to one of a plurality of storage locations, and generating, at the first device, a map that identifies the storage location for each chunk. Retrieving a distributed backup file includes receiving a request to retrieve a file, obtaining a map corresponding to the file, wherein the map identifies a storage location for each of a plurality of file chunks of the file, retrieving the plurality of file chunks from the identified locations, and generating the requested file by combining the plurality of file chunks.

To provide a more seamless experience across multiple devices, task streaming systems and methods allow a user to create 'task-contexts' and manage metadata of files stored across multiple data storage devices and user preferences associated with capabilities of the multiple devices for operating on the file. Furthermore, the task streaming systems and methods are provided to allow task-contexts to be shared from one device to another device. A task-context specifies one or more files and one or more operations to be performed on the one or more files. By providing a task-context from one device to the other device, a user can accomplish a task with a particular file and seamlessly transition between devices with minimal disruption and effort.

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Bengaluru, India

Kaushal Kumar Dhruw