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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Jun. 04, 2019

Filed:

Sep. 27, 2017
Applicant:

Symantec Corporation, Mountain View, CA (US);

Inventor:

Jonathan J. Dinerstein, Draper, UT (US);

Assignee:

SYMANTEC CORPORATION, Mountain View, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 29/06 (2006.01); G06F 21/50 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 63/1416 (2013.01); G06F 21/50 (2013.01); H04L 63/20 (2013.01); H04L 63/1433 (2013.01); H04L 63/1483 (2013.01);
Abstract

Blocking malicious Internet content at an appropriate hierarchical level. In one embodiment, a method may include identifying evidence of security risks in hierarchical levels of an Internet hierarchy. The method may also include generating security risk scores for the hierarchical levels of the Internet hierarchy based on the evidence of security risks. The method may further include identifying a security risk threshold. The method may also include identifying, as an appropriate blocking level, the highest hierarchical level of the Internet hierarchy having a security risk score at or above the security risk threshold. The method may further include blocking a network device from accessing Internet content in the Internet hierarchy at or below the appropriate blocking level.


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