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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:
Apr. 12, 2016
Filed:
Mar. 15, 2013
Applicant:
Mcafee, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Inventors:
John D. Teddy, Portland, OR (US);
James Douglas Bean, Tigard, OR (US);
Gregory William Dalcher, Tigard, OR (US);
Jeff Hetzler, Manning, OR (US);
Andrew Arlin Woodruff, Portland, OR (US);
Assignee:
McAfee, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/56 (2013.01); G06F 21/51 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/56 (2013.01); G06F 21/51 (2013.01);
Abstract
An antimalware support system is provided to support one or more host-based antimalware clients. A query is received from a particular host device that identifies a file detected by an antimalware tool local to the particular host device. Reputation data is determined for the file, and a response to the query is sent to the particular host device. The query response includes the reputation data determined for the file.