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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:
Oct. 08, 2013
Filed:
Sep. 28, 2007
Applicants:
Oliver Whitehouse, Belmont, GB;
Oliver Friedrichs, Woodside, CA (US);
Elias Levy, San Francisco, CA (US);
Inventors:
Oliver Whitehouse, Belmont, GB;
Oliver Friedrichs, Woodside, CA (US);
Elias Levy, San Francisco, CA (US);
Assignee:
Symantec Corporation, Mountain View, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 29/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method and apparatus for monitoring communications from a communications device comprising monitoring communications from a communications device by storing a data acquisition address in a contact list of the communications device that identifies a location of a monitoring device. Further, when malicious software uses the contact list to send messages, a message is sent using the malicious software to the monitoring device using the data acquisition address.