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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:
Aug. 23, 2016
Filed:
May. 16, 2014
Applicant:
Avg Netherlands B.v., Amsterdam, NL;
Inventors:
Assignee:
AVG Netherlands B.V., Amsterdam, NL;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G08B 23/00 (2006.01); G06F 21/55 (2013.01); G06F 21/56 (2013.01); G06F 21/52 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/55 (2013.01); G06F 21/52 (2013.01); G06F 21/564 (2013.01); G06F 21/566 (2013.01);
Abstract
Software applications are analyzed to determine if they are legitimate applications and warnings are provided to users to avoid installation and/or purchases of unnecessary and/or potentially harmful software based on comparisons of user-interface characteristics of the software applications to visual characteristics of authentic applications to determine to what extent they match (or do not match) or are attempting to mirror the legitimate application.