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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:
Dec. 16, 2014

Filed:

Nov. 02, 2012
Applicant:

Raytheon Company, Waltham, MA (US);

Inventors:

Monty D. McDougal, St. Paul, TX (US);

Jesse J. Lee, Allen, TX (US);

William L. Gilmore, Plano, TX (US);

Assignee:

Raytheon Company, Waltham, MA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 11/00 (2006.01); G06F 21/56 (2013.01); H04L 29/06 (2006.01); G06F 12/14 (2006.01); G06F 15/173 (2006.01); H04L 12/66 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 63/1408 (2013.01); G06F 21/567 (2013.01); G06F 2221/2101 (2013.01);
Abstract

Intrusion prevention system (IPS) mode is provided for a malware detection system. At least one staging server is provided for intercepting an incoming electronic message, making a copy of the intercepted incoming electronic message, and holding the intercepted incoming electronic message until an analysis of the copy of the intercepted incoming electronic message has been completed or until a timeout threshold has been exceeded. A malware detection system is coupled to the at least one staging server. The at least one malware detection system includes at least one decomposition server for receiving the copy of the intercepted incoming electronic message and processing the copy of the intercepted incoming electronic message to detect malware. Multiple mail queues, e.g., incoming, timeout, jail, decomposition, and outgoing, are used to manage message flows and delay messages while malware analysis is performed.


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