US Patent Issued to Dell Products on Aug. 12 for "Prioritized virus scanning of files based on file size" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,386,957, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Prioritized virus scanning of files based on file size" was invented by Shiv S. Kumar (Pune, India) and Kaushik Gupta (Pune, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system can maintain, in a directory, respective first softlinks of respective first files that have a size within a specified range, and that have been modified subsequent to a respective most-recent virus scan. The system can, in response to determining to perform an antivirus scan on a group of files that comprises the first files, perform a first antivirus scan on the first files based on ide...