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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:
Oct. 04, 2022

Filed:

Jun. 25, 2019
Applicant:

Mcafee, Llc, San Jose, CA (US);

Inventors:

Oliver G. Devane, Upton, GB;

Federico Barbieri, Vizzola P., IT;

Assignee:

McAfee, LLC, San Jose, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 9/40 (2022.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 63/102 (2013.01); H04L 63/12 (2013.01); H04L 63/1433 (2013.01); H04L 63/168 (2013.01); H04L 63/20 (2013.01);
Abstract

There is disclosed in one example a computing apparatus, including: a processor and a memory; a network interface; and a security agent including instructions encoded within the memory to instruct the processor to: identify an unknown software object; query, via the network interface, a global reputation store for a global reputation for the unknown software object; receive a response from the global reputation store and determine that the unknown software object does not have a reliable global reputation; compute a local reputation for the unknown software object; and share the local reputation for the unknown software object with the global security cache.


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