MALWARE SCANNING OF COMPRESSED COMPUTER FILES

Patent №

US 7,107,617

Granted

2006-09-12

Filed 2001

Owner

NETWORKS ASSOCIATES TECHNOLOGY, INC.

+1 more

Lab

AI components

1

hardware

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

09975986

A malware scanner (8) operates to scan compressed computer files (16) by compressing the malware signatures (17) using the same compression algorithm as used for the compressed computer file and then comparing the compressed malware signatures (18) with the compressed computer file directly.

AI classification

AI hardware0.66
Evolutionary computation0.39
Knowledge representation0.26
Vision0.10
Natural language0.02
Machine learning0.00
Speech0.00
Planning0.00

Ownership

NETWORKS ASSOCIATES TECHNOLOGY, INC.

assignment · 122540137

FENCE WORKS, INC

assignment · 129060980

Assignors

HURSEY, NEIL J., MCEWAN, WILLIAM A.

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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