SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROTECTING FILES ON A COMPUTER FROM ACCESS BY UNAUTHORIZED APPLICATIONS

Patent №

US 7,480,655

Granted

2009-01-20

Filed 2005

Owner

WEBROOT SOFTWARE, INC.

+1 more

Lab

AI components

3

kr · planning · hardware

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

11031615

An application that generates a request to access a data file is identified. The application is determined to be not permitted to access the data file based on identified extension associated with that data file so as to quarantine and uninstall that application.

AI classification

AI hardware0.98
Planning0.97
Knowledge representation0.74
Speech0.00
Natural language0.00
Vision0.00
Machine learning0.00
Evolutionary computation0.00

Ownership

WEBROOT SOFTWARE, INC.

assignment · 163480646

WEBROOT INC.

namechg · 357090604

Assignors

THOMAS, STEVE, MOLL, DAVID

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

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