Inventor
THOMAS ANIL FRANCIS
US20 patents
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MICROSOFT CORP
11 patentsUS6802025B1Oct 5, 2004
Restoration of a computer to a previous working state
MICROSOFT CORP137 citations94
US7765400B2Jul 27, 2010
Aggregation of the knowledge base of antivirus software
MICROSOFT CORP47 citations93
US7882561B2Feb 1, 2011
System and method of caching decisions on when to scan for malware
MICROSOFT CORP22 citations92
US7765410B2Jul 27, 2010
System and method of aggregating the knowledge base of antivirus software applications
MICROSOFT CORP45 citations92
US7478237B2Jan 13, 2009
System and method of allowing user mode applications with access to file data
MICROSOFT CORP29 citations92
US6618735B1Sep 9, 2003
System and method for protecting shared system files
MICROSOFT CORP155 citations92
US7861296B2Dec 28, 2010
System and method for efficiently scanning a file for malware
MICROSOFT CORP23 citations89
US7716743B2May 11, 2010
Privacy friendly malware quarantines
MICROSOFT CORP28 citations89
US7676845B2Mar 9, 2010
System and method of selectively scanning a file on a computing device for malware
MICROSOFT CORP16 citations84
US8938618B2Jan 20, 2015
Device booting with an initial protection component
MICROSOFT CORP0 citations52
US9043869B2May 26, 2015
Aggregating the knowledge base of computer systems to proactively protect a computer from malware
MICROSOFT CORP1 citations51