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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.

Date of Patent:
Jun. 12, 2012

Filed:

Sep. 19, 2006
Applicants:

Ning Sun, Bellevue, WA (US);

Patrick Winkler, Redmond, WA (US);

Chengyun Chu, Redmond, WA (US);

Hong Jia, Redmond, WA (US);

Jason Geffner, Bothell, WA (US);

Tony Lee, Sammamish, WA (US);

Jigar Mody, Bellevue, WA (US);

Frank Swiderski, Seattle, WA (US);

Inventors:

Ning Sun, Bellevue, WA (US);

Patrick Winkler, Redmond, WA (US);

Chengyun Chu, Redmond, WA (US);

Hong Jia, Redmond, WA (US);

Jason Geffner, Bothell, WA (US);

Tony Lee, Sammamish, WA (US);

Jigar Mody, Bellevue, WA (US);

Frank Swiderski, Seattle, WA (US);

Assignee:

Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/14 (2006.01); G08B 23/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

Automated malware signature generation is disclosed. Automated malware signature generation includes monitoring incoming unknown files for the presence of malware and analyzing the incoming unknown files based on both a plurality of classifiers of file behavior and a plurality of classifiers of file content. An incoming file is classified as having a particular malware classification based on the analyzing of incoming unknown files and a malware signature is generated for the incoming unknown file based on the particular malware classification. Access is provided to the malware signature.


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