Finjan Mobile, Inc.

Scot Robinson

Jules Panopoulos

Julie Mar-Spinola

Patrick Conlin

Timothy J Shipman

Rudolph Mutter

Alexander Lin Kremer

Michael Godlewski

Geoffrey House

Lee McDole

Winnie Tong

Bay Lee Feore

Anthony Scherba

Sang Hui Michael Kim

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 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.

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Rolling Hills Estates, CA, United States of America

Scot Robinson