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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 23, 2026
Filed:
Oct. 26, 2020
Mcafee, Llc, San Jose, CA (US);
Craig Schmugar, Beaverton, OR (US);
David Allen Marcus, Davidsonville, MD (US);
Erwin R. Corpuz, Chantilly, VA (US);
Matthew J. Hodyno, Silver Spring, MD (US);
Jonathan Lee Prather, South Riding, VA (US);
McAfee, LLC, San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
There is disclosed in one example a computing apparatus, including: a hardware platform including a processor and a memory; a network interface; a userspace application store including a plurality of userspace applications, wherein at least some of the userspace applications are programmed to communicate via the network interface; and instructions encoded within the memory to: enumerate social connections of a user via the userspace applications; assign the social connections to virtual groups according, at least in part, to correlated connection services; assign data transfer policies to the virtual groups; detect an attempted data transfer to a social connection; and enforce the data transfer policy for a virtual group of the social connection of the attempted data transfer.