Patent ID: 8799644
Filing Date: 2014-08-05
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A system for preventing the transmission of known and unknown electronic contents to and from servers or workstations connected to a common network comprising: means for interpreting contents of a messaging protocol or application network protocol, including at least HyperText Transfer Protocol, File Transfer Protocol, and Secure Shell; means for checking compliance of the electronic contents with the messaging protocol specification and Internet Engineering Task Force application network protocol specification by an intermediate verifier including protocol specification therein; means for filtering known or unknown electronic content based upon a function of the electronic content identified by a call to an operating system for actions of at least one of file sharing, file modification, file deletion and file creation; and wherein the means for checking compliance of the electronic contents with the messaging protocol specification or application network protocol specification comprises at least one server, at least one workstation or combinations thereof and an intermediate verifier with protocol specification maintained therein and wherein the at least one server, the at least one workstation and the combinations thereof and the intermediate verifier are the same as the at least one server, at least one workstation or combinations thereof and an intermediate verifier in said means for interpreting contents of a messaging protocol or application network protocol, or are separately independent, wherein the known and unknown electronic content is identified by one or more of the following pattern of binary codes within the electronic contents: name of the electronic content; orientation and format of the electronic content including plain text file, image file or data files, and function of the electronic content.