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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 01, 2006
Filed:
Sep. 04, 2001
Applicants:
Christopher Andrew Barton, Buckingham, GB;
Kristian John Pine, Aylesbury, GB;
Paul Nicholas Gartside, Milton Keynes, GB;
Inventors:
Christopher Andrew Barton, Buckingham, GB;
Kristian John Pine, Aylesbury, GB;
Paul Nicholas Gartside, Milton Keynes, GB;
Assignee:
McAfee, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/44 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A computer file update triggering technique uses tags embedded within e-mail messages sent to connected computers to indicate the existence of an updated version of a computer file to those connected computers. The connected computers may then automatically download the updated version of the computer file. The notification via e-mail of the existence of the updated computer files may be provided as a subscription service by the computer file provider.