NortonLifelock Assigned Patent
Protecting cloud storage vs. suspected malware
By Francis Pelletier | February 25, 2021 at 2:15 pmNortonLifelock, Inc., Tempe, AZ, has been assigned a patent (10,887,339) developed by Sokolov, Ilya, Boston, MA, Gu, Lei, Bedford, MA, and Kennedy, Mark, Gardena, CA, for “systems and methods for protecting a cloud storage against suspected malware.“
The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”The disclosed computer-implemented method for protecting a cloud storage against suspected malware may include (1) receiving a backup of one or more encrypted files over a network, (2) determining that the one or more encrypted files match one or more criteria associated with suspected malware, and (3) performing a security action that protects a computing device against the suspected malware. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.”
The patent application was filed on September 26, 2018 (16/142,270).
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