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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 30, 2025
Filed:
Apr. 21, 2023
Mcafee, Llc, San Jose, CA (US);
German Lancioni, San Jose, CA (US);
Adrian M. Dunbar, London, GB;
Michael Hughes, San Francisco, CA (US);
Cedric Cochin, Portland, OR (US);
Carl David Woodward, San Jose, CA (US);
McAfee, LLC, San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture are disclosed to improve offloading of malware scans. An example apparatus is to, based on a trigger to perform a scan of a volume of data, estimate a computational burden associated with performing the scan using the CPU, the volume of data representative of at least one of a file or an object. Additionally, the example apparatus is to determine whether the computational burden satisfies a threshold associated with offloading the scan to the GPU. The example apparatus is also to cause at least one of the CPU or the GPU to perform the scan based on whether the computational burden satisfies the threshold.