Nortonlifelock Inc.

Radoslav Stanev

Jonathon Salehpour

Somard Kruayatidee

Brendon Woirhaye

Sudhir Kumar

Anuj Sahai

Nikhil Salunke

A method for approving financial transactions is described. In one embodiment, the method may include receiving, from a transaction interface, a transaction request to approve a financial transaction, determining a payment method of the financial transaction is associated with a regulated account, transmitting, based at least in part on the determining the payment method of the financial transaction is associated with the regulated account, an approval request to approve the financial transaction to a first administrator associated with the regulated account, and upon receiving a response to the approval request, transmitting to the transaction interface a transaction response message indicating whether the financial transaction is approved.

Realtime financial transaction approval

The disclosed computer-implemented method for restoring applications may include (i) detecting an indication to restore a previous version of an application installed within a mobile operating system environment, (ii) retrieving the previous version of the application from a protected location within the mobile operating system environment where a sandboxing security component stored the previous version of the application, and (iii) executing the previous version of the application within a security sandbox managed by the sandboxing security component. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.

Systems and methods for restoring applications

The disclosed computer-implemented method for crowd sourced application advisory may include determining at least one characteristic associated with an application, collecting, from a plurality of computing devices, a sentiment associated with the application, wherein the sentiment reflects an assessment of the application in light of the at least one characteristic by at least one user of the application, presenting, via a user interface, the at least one characteristic associated with the application, the presentation of the at least one characteristic being modified by the sentiment collected from the plurality of computing devices, and receiving, via the user interface, at least one of a decision to install the application or a decision to uninstall the application. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.

Systems and methods for crowdsourced application advisory

The disclosed computer-implemented method for providing persistent visual warnings for application launchers may include (i) loading an application launcher into a sandbox, (ii) monitoring one or more functions of an application from the application launcher, (iii) querying a malware detection manager using information obtained from monitoring the functions of the application to determine whether the application is potentially harmful, and (iv) modifying, based on determining that the application is potentially harmful, an icon for the application launched from the sandbox to notify a user that the application is potentially harmful. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.

Systems and methods for providing persistent visual warnings for application launchers

The disclosed computer-implemented method for executing application launchers may include (i) creating a security sandbox within an operating system environment, (ii) executing an original application launcher within the security sandbox, and (iii) registering the security sandbox as a new application launcher within the operating system environment such that the original application launcher is still available to a user through the security sandbox and the security sandbox supplements the original application launcher by providing a layer of protection for the user. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.

Systems and methods for executing application launchers

The disclosed computer-implemented method for identifying unsolicited communications on a computing device may include a computing device receiving a communication from an unrecognized phone number; obtaining the unrecognized phone number from the communication; obtaining classification data associated with the unrecognized phone number based on categories of other computing devices contacted by the unrecognized phone number; obtaining a category associated with a phone number of the computing device; determining that the communication is an unsolicited communication based on the classification data and the category associated with the phone number of the computing device; and in response to determining that the communication is unsolicited, performing a security action to manage interactions with the communication from the unrecognized phone number. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.

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Tehachapi, CA, United States of America

Radoslav Stanev