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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 08, 2015
Filed:
Apr. 12, 2012
Applicant:
Thomas Christian Wiltzius, Santa Barbara, CA (US);
Inventor:
Thomas Christian Wiltzius, Santa Barbara, CA (US);
Assignee:
Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 11/00 (2006.01); G06F 21/57 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/577 (2013.01);
Abstract
A universal indicator may be provided to users accessing content over a network to help the users identify which content is safe and which content is not. The indicator may be a positive indicator for safe sites, or a negative indicator for unsafe sites, and may be conspicuously positioned on a portion of the browser to alert users which Internet sites are safe. The positive icon may be displayed only if all of a predetermined set of criteria are met, wherein the predetermined criteria consider network vulnerabilities, server vulnerabilities, and unscrupulous business practice vulnerabilities.