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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 17, 2019
Filed:
Jun. 05, 2018
Lookout, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);
Kevin Patrick Mahaffey, San Francisco, CA (US);
Brian James Buck, Livermore, CA (US);
William Robinson, Brentwood, CA (US);
John G. Hering, San Francisco, CA (US);
James David Burgess, Alameda, CA (US);
Timothy Micheal Wyatt, Toronto, CA;
David Golombek, Washington, DC (US);
David Luke Richardson, San Francisco, CA (US);
Anthony McKay Lineberry, Oakland, CA (US);
Kyle Barton, San Francisco, CA (US);
Daniel Lee Evans, San Francisco, CA (US);
Ariel Salomon, Oakland, CA (US);
Jonathan Pantera Grubb, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Bruce Wootton, Alameda, CA (US);
Timothy Strazzere, Oakland, CA (US);
Yogesh Swami, San Francisco, CA (US);
LOOKOUT, INC., San Francisco, CA (US);
Abstract
Methods and systems are provided for sharing information and improving the functioning of devices by blocking potentially harmful communications. In the methods and systems disclosed, a security component on an electronic device may receive a policy. The security component may also receive, from a local device proxy on the electronic device, information pertaining to a communication. The security component may compare the information pertaining to the communication to the policy. The comparison may result in a determination that the communication is potentially harmful. The security component may then instruct the local device proxy to block the communication from proceeding past the local device proxy.