ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,273,384, issued on April 8, was assigned to McAfee LLC (San Jose, Calif.).
"User activity-triggered URL scan" was invented by Oliver G. Devane (Upton, Great Britain) and Abhishek Karnik (Portland, Ore.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is disclosed in one example a computing apparatus, including: a hardware platform including a processor and a memory; a network interface; a user-space application including instructions to interact with a web site via a uniform resource locator (URL); and a security agent including instructions to: intercept an interaction of the user-space application with the web site; determine that the intercepted ...