Mcafee, Inc.

Georgia Tech Research Corporation

Intel Corporation

Secure Computing Corporation

Phyllis Adele Schneck

Dmitri Alperovitch

Sven Krasser

Paul Qantas Judge

Jonathan Alexander Zdziarski

Yuchun Tang

Weilai Yang

Paula Greve

Alejandro Manuel Hernandez

Aarjav Jyotindra Neeta Trivedi

Lamar Lorenzo Willis

Jeremy Gould

Martin Stecher

Tomo Foote-Lennox

Tim Lange

Karsten Schwan

Santosh Chokhani

Nick Black

Jonathan Torrez

Joel Joseph Caracciolo

Methods and systems for assigning reputation to communications entities include collecting communications data from distributed agents, aggregating the communications data, analyzing the communications data and identifying relationships between communications entities based upon the communications data.

Multi-dimensional reputation scoring

Methods and systems for operation upon one or more data processors for detecting image spam by detecting an image and analyzing the content of the image to determine whether the incoming communication comprises an unwanted communication.

Detecting image spam

Methods, systems and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for receiving, at a global server system, from each of a plurality of local network devices, network data specifying network communication activity at the local network device, wherein the plurality of local network devices collectively provide backbone communications facilities for multiple networks; aggregating, at the global server system, the network data from each of the local network devices; analyzing, at the global server system, the aggregated network data to identify network activities; generating, at the global server system, update data based on the analysis of the aggregated network data, the update data including instructions for the local network devices for processing network communications to or from the local network devices; and transmitting from the global server system the update data to the local network devices.

Prioritizing network traffic

Methods and systems for operation upon one or more data processors for prioritizing transmission of communications associated with an entity based upon reputation information associated with the entity.

Computer-implemented systems and methods for identifying illegitimate messaging activity on a system using a network of sensors.

Systems and methods for identifying potentially malicious messages

Methods and systems for operation upon one or more data processors for assigning reputation to web-based entities based upon previously collected data.

Web reputation scoring

Systems and methods for reputation based connection determinations are provided. Systems used for reputation based connection throttling can include a communications interface, a reputation engine and a connection control engine. The communications interface can receive connection requests associated with an external entity prior to a connection being established to the external entity. The reputation engine can derive a reputation associated with the external entity. The connection control engine can allow or deny connection requests to a protected network based upon the derived reputation of the external entity.

Reputation based connection throttling

Methods and systems for operation upon one or more data processors for prioritizing transmission among a plurality of data streams based upon a classification associated with the data packets associated with each of the plurality of data streams, respectively. Systems and methods can operate to allocate bandwidth to priority data streams first and recursively allocate remaining bandwidth to lesser priority data streams based upon the priority associated with those respective lesser priority data streams.

Methods and systems for operation upon one or more data processors for assigning a reputation to a messaging entity by analyzing the attributes of the entity, correlating the attributes with known attributes to define relationships between entities sharing attributes, and attributing a portion of the reputation of one related entity to the reputation of the other related entity.

Correlation and analysis of entity attributes

Methods and systems for operation upon one or more data processors for aggregating reputation data from dispersed reputation engines and deriving global reputation information for use in handling received communications.

Aggregation of reputation data

Methods and systems for operation upon one or more data processors to filter communications of users in accordance with content-based policy.

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Phyllis Adele Schneck