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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:
Nov. 07, 2017

Filed:

Aug. 25, 2015
Applicant:

Symantec Corporation, Mountain View, CA (US);

Inventor:

Daniel Asheghian, Los Gatos, CA (US);

Assignee:

Symantec Corporation, Mountain View, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/00 (2013.01); G06F 21/55 (2013.01); H04L 29/06 (2006.01); G06F 17/30 (2006.01); G06F 11/00 (2006.01); G06F 12/14 (2006.01); G06F 12/16 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/552 (2013.01); G06F 17/30073 (2013.01); H04L 63/1416 (2013.01);
Abstract

The disclosed computer-implemented method for time-shifted detection of security threats may include (1) collecting history data that describes activity of the computing system during a past time period, (2) archiving the history data in association with the past time period, (3) identifying a potential security threat to the computing system that was unknown to a software security system during the past time period, and (4) in response to identifying the potential security threat, replaying the history data through the software security system to enable the software security system to determine whether the computing system was affected by the potential security threat during the past time period. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.


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