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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:
Oct. 02, 2012

Filed:

Aug. 31, 2007
Applicants:

Sarah Susan Gordon Ford, Satellite Beach, FL (US);

Richard A. Ford, Satellite Beach, FL (US);

Inventors:

Sarah Susan Gordon Ford, Satellite Beach, FL (US);

Richard A. Ford, Satellite Beach, FL (US);

Assignee:

Symantec Corporation, Mountain View, CA (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 29/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A method includes determining whether new phishing site identifiers (URLs and/or IP addresses) have been created. Upon a determination that the new phishing site identifiers have been created, the new phishing site identifiers are compared to site identifiers of sites to which critical values have been provided in the past. Upon a determination that at least one of the new phishing site identifiers matches at least one of the site identifiers, a phishing notification is provided that the user was successfully phished in the past.


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