Patent ID: 9578065
Date: 2017-02-21
CPC Classifications: G06F,H04L

Claim:
1. A method for distributing antivirus records to user devices, the method comprising: collecting, by a server, statistics on the use of a plurality of antivirus records; calculating, by the server, a coefficient of effectiveness of each antivirus record based on the collected statistics on the use of a plurality of antivirus records; identifying, by the server, one or more most effective antivirus records whose coefficients of effectiveness exceed a predetermined effectiveness threshold; identifying, by the server, one or more less effective antivirus records whose coefficients of effectiveness do not exceed the predetermined effectiveness threshold; transmitting, by the server, the one or more identified most effective antivirus records to a plurality of user devices for storage in antivirus databases of the user devices; receiving, from the user devices, one or more less effective antivirus records removed from the antivirus databases of the user devices; and storing the one or more received less effective antivirus records in an antivirus database of the server if said antivirus records were not in the antivirus database of the server.