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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 29, 2025
Filed:
Jan. 25, 2023
Applicant:
Dell Products L.p., Round Rock, TX (US);
Inventors:
Seth Jacob Rothschild, Littleton, MA (US);
Farida Shafik, Cairo, EG;
Assignee:
Dell Products L.P., Round Rock, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 11/14 (2006.01); H04L 9/40 (2022.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 11/1451 (2013.01); G06F 11/1458 (2013.01); H04L 63/1416 (2013.01);
Abstract
One example method includes detecting a file access process, such as a write operation performed by a ransomware process, directed to a file, based on the detecting, incrementing a counter, checking to determine if the counter exceeds a defined threshold, and when the counter exceeds the defined threshold, creating a backup of the file. The backup file may be a read-only file, and may expire, and be deleted, at a particular time, or after the passage of a period of time.