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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:
Feb. 25, 2014
Filed:
Sep. 18, 2002
Applicant:
Kevin T. Rowney, San Francisco, CA (US);
Inventor:
Kevin T. Rowney, San Francisco, CA (US);
Assignee:
Symantec Corporation, Mountain View, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 29/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method and apparatus for detecting preselected data embedded in electronically transmitted messages is described. In one embodiment, the method comprises monitoring messages electronically transmitted over a network for embedded preselected data and performing content searches on the messages to detect the presence of the embedded preselected data using an abstract data structure derived from the preselected data.