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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:
Jul. 05, 2011
Filed:
Jun. 27, 2005
Applicant:
John Millard, Pasadena, CA (US);
Inventor:
John Millard, Pasadena, CA (US);
Assignee:
Symantec Corporation, Mountain View, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 11/00 (2006.01); G06F 7/04 (2006.01); G06F 13/00 (2006.01); H04L 29/06 (2006.01); H02H 3/05 (2006.01); G06F 11/30 (2006.01); G06F 21/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A scanning optimization manager scans files for malicious code. The scanning optimization manager creates listings of the portions of scanned files accessed during the scanning. The scanning optimization manager proceeds to utilize these listings of accessed portions of files as I/O hints to optimize subsequent scans of the files for malicious code.