SYSTEM, METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR PROCESSING A PREFIX TREE FILE UTILIZING A SELECTED AGENT

• US 20110246531A1
• Filed: 06/16/2011
• Published: 10/06/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 12/21/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: McAfee, LLC
• Original Assignee: McAfee, Inc. (McAfee, LLC)
• Inventors: Steiner, Thomas C.H., Blaimschein, Peter, Schlemmer, Andreas
• Granted Patent: US 8,560,521 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/797
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/322 Trees

Abstract

A system, method, and computer program product are provided for processing a prefix tree file utilizing a selected agent. In use, a file including a prefix tree is identified. Additionally, an agent is selected from a plurality of agents to process the file. Further, the file is processed utilizing the agent.

Claims

1-25. -25. (canceled)

26. A method, comprising:

identifying a file including a prefix tree;

selecting an agent to process the file; and

processing the file utilizing the agent, wherein the agent is selected based on a type of the prefix tree included in the file.

27. The method of claim 26, wherein the prefix tree stores at least a portion of uniform resource locators.

28. The method of claim 27, wherein each of the uniform resource locators include a common prefix.

29. The method of claim 26, wherein the file is stored on a client computer.

30. The method of claim 29, wherein the agent is stored on the client computer.

31. The method of claim 26, wherein the agent includes a command line executable.

32. The method of claim 26, wherein the agent is selected from a pool of agents that perform different functions.

33. The method of claim 32, wherein each of the agents in the pool of agents performs at least one of a crawling function, a merging function, a separating function, and a reorganization function.

34. The method of claim 26, wherein a predefined number of the agents are capable of executing operations in parallel.

35. The method of claim 26, wherein the file is selected based on a time of a last access to the file.

36. The method of claim 26, wherein the agent is selected based on a determination of whether the agent is in an idle state.

37. The method of claim 26, wherein the processing includes downloading a second file identified using a uniform resource locator stored in the prefix tree.

38. The method of claim 37, wherein the processing includes analyzing the second file for gathering information associated with the uniform resource locator.

39. The method of claim 26, wherein the processing includes categorizing a target pointed to by a uniform resource locator stored in the prefix tree.

40. The method of claim 26, wherein a plurality of different files having a different prefix tree are distributed across a plurality of devices.

41. The method of claim 40, wherein the different files include different types of prefix trees.

42. The method of claim 26, wherein the processing includes downloading a second file identified using a uniform resource locator stored in the prefix tree and analyzing the second file to identify unwanted content in the second file.

43. The method of claim 26, wherein the processing includes downloading a second file identified using a uniform resource locator stored in the prefix tree and analyzing the second file to identify malware in the second file.

44. A method, comprising:

identifying a file including a prefix tree;

selecting an agent to process the file; and

processing the file utilizing the agent, wherein identifying the file includes selecting the file from a queue of files.

45. A method, comprising:

identifying a file including a prefix tree;

selecting an agent to process the file; and

processing the file utilizing the agent, wherein the agent is selected based on a type of the processing to be performed on the file.