ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,293, issued on July 21, was assigned to OPEN TEXT INC. (Menlo Park, Calif.).
"Proactive browser content analysis" was invented by Joe Jaroch (Elk Grove Village, Ill.), Harry Murphey McCloy III (Longmont, Colo.) and Robert Edward Adams (Sunnyvale, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A protection module operates to analyze threats, at the protocol level (e.g., at the HTML level), by intercepting all requests that a browser engine resident in a computing device sends and receives, and the protection agent completes the requests without the help of the browser engine. And then the protection module analyzes and/or modifies the complete...