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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:
Apr. 08, 2014

Filed:

Oct. 31, 2008
Applicants:

Ian Barile, Mountain View, CA (US);

Bruce Wootton, Alameda, CA (US);

Dirk Kessler, San Francisco, CA (US);

Rajesh Upadhyay, Newark, CA (US);

Inventors:

Ian Barile, Mountain View, CA (US);

Bruce Wootton, Alameda, CA (US);

Dirk Kessler, San Francisco, CA (US);

Rajesh Upadhyay, Newark, CA (US);

Assignee:

Symantec Corporation, Mountain View, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 11/00 (2006.01); G06F 12/14 (2006.01); G06F 12/16 (2006.01); G08B 23/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A method and apparatus for classifying behavior of an application based on its data access pattern is described. In one embodiment, the method includes monitoring file access events associated with an application, and determining whether at least one of the file access events indicates the application's attempt to manipulate data of a file. If at least one file access event indicates the application's attempt to manipulate the data within the file, then at least one action is caused to be performed.


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