US 11,874,921 B2
Digital protection that travels with data
Dattatraya Kulkarni, Bangalore (IN); Srikanth Nalluri, Bangalore (IN); Kamlesh Halder, Bangalore (IN); Venkatasubrahmanyam Krishnapur, Bangalore (IN); Sailaja K. Shankar, Cupertino, CA (US); and Kaushal Kumar Dhruw, Bangalore (IN)
Assigned to McAfee, LLC, San Jose, CA (US)
Filed by McAfee, LLC, San Jose, CA (US)
Filed on May 11, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/741,700.
Application 17/741,700 is a division of application No. 16/572,579, filed on Sep. 16, 2019, granted, now 11,347,848.
Application 16/572,579 is a division of application No. 14/911,140, granted, now 10,417,417, issued on Sep. 17, 2019, previously published as PCT/US2013/075129, filed on Dec. 13, 2013.
Claims priority of application No. 4386/CHE/2013 (IN), filed on Sep. 27, 2013.
Prior Publication US 2022/0269783 A1, Aug. 25, 2022
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. G06F 21/56 (2013.01); G06F 21/57 (2013.01)
CPC G06F 21/56 (2013.01) [G06F 21/567 (2013.01); G06F 21/577 (2013.01); G06F 2221/033 (2013.01); G06F 2221/034 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. At least one machine readable non-transitory storage medium having instructions stored thereon for providing data-centric computer security between a first device and a second device remote from the first device, wherein the instructions when executed by at least one processor cause the at least one processor to perform the following operations:
receiving a record at a sharing service system from the first device, wherein the record is associated with a data file and comprises an identifier of the data file, a cryptographic hash of the data file, device information associated with the first device, scan information associated with the security scanner, user information associated with a user of the first device, and a time stamp of the record;
querying the second device to retrieve information associated with the second device and/or user information associated with a user of the second device; and
providing at least a part of the record or a derivation thereof to the second device based on the information associated with the second device and/or the user information associated with the user of the second device.