Symantec Assigned Patent

Symantec Corporation, Mountain View, CA, has been assigned a patent (10,262,135) developed by Gu, Lei, Bedford, MA, Sokolov, Ilya, Boston, MA, and Mesropian, Haik, Glendale, CA, for “systems and methods for detecting and addressing suspicious file restore activities.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”The disclosed computer-implemented method for detecting and addressing suspicious file restore activities may include, (i) detecting a restore activity during which files are restored to a client device from a previously stored backup of the files,, (ii) determining that a total number of the files restored during the restore activity exceeds a threshold number, and, (iii) performing, based on the total number of the files exceeding the threshold number, a security action to protect the client device from a malicious threat associated with the restore activity. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.”

The patent application was filed on December 13, 2016 (15/377,515).