BACKWARDS RESEARCHING ACTIVITY INDICATIVE OF PESTWARE

Patent №

US 8,201,243

Granted

2012-06-12

Filed 2006

Owner

WEBROOT SOFTWARE, INC.

Lab

AI components

3

nlp · planning · hardware

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

11408146

A system and method for researching an identity of a source of activity that is indicative of pestware is described. In one embodiment the method comprises monitoring the computer for activity that is indicative of pestware, identifying, based upon the activity, an object residing on the computer that is a suspected pestware object; and accessing at least a portion of a recorded history of sources that the computer received files from so as to identify a reference to an identity of a particular source that the suspected pestware object originated from.

AI classification

AI hardware0.75
Planning0.70
Natural language0.59
Knowledge representation0.02
Speech0.00
Machine learning0.00
Evolutionary computation0.00
Vision0.00

Ownership

WEBROOT SOFTWARE, INC.

assignment · 179770663

Assignors

BONEY, MATTHEW L.

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

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