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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:
Aug. 20, 2019

Filed:

Jan. 28, 2019
Applicant:

Level 3 Communications, Llc, Broomfield, CO (US);

Inventor:

Skyler J. Bingham, Superior, CO (US);

Assignee:

Level 3 Communications, LLC, Broomfield, CO (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 29/06 (2006.01); G06F 15/167 (2006.01); G06F 16/954 (2019.01); H04L 29/08 (2006.01); G06F 21/56 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 63/145 (2013.01); G06F 16/954 (2019.01); G06F 21/566 (2013.01); H04L 63/102 (2013.01); H04L 63/1416 (2013.01); H04L 63/1425 (2013.01); H04L 67/30 (2013.01); H04L 67/306 (2013.01); G06F 2221/2123 (2013.01);
Abstract

Aspects of the present disclosure involve systems and methods computing devices to access a public network posing as a user to the network to detect one or more malware programs available for downloading through the network. More particularly, a malware detection control system utilizes a browser executed on a computing device to access a public network, such as the Internet. Through the browser, sites or nodes of the public network are accessed by the control system with the interactions with the sites of the public network designed to mimic or approximate a human user of the browser. More particularly, the control system may apply the one or more personality profiles to the browser of the computing device to access and interact with the nodes of the public network. Further, the control system may monitor the information retrieved from the network sites to detect the presence of malware within the nodes.


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