Patent ID: 7836174
Filing Date: 2010-11-16
Classification: G06F,H04L

Abstract:
1. A computer system for scanning electronic data, the system comprising: one or more event detectors to detect a data scanning event associated with a file in a file system and to generate a data scanning event message, wherein the one or more event detectors comprise at least one file system monitor that intercepts data storage transactions, wherein the one or more event detectors further determine whether to generate a scanning event message based on information about the data storage transaction, and wherein the event scanning message comprises pathname identification information that uniquely identifies and locates the file in the file system; and a computing grid of processors that are separate from the file system, wherein the computing grid of processors receive the event scanning message from the one or more detectors, the computing grid of processors comprising one or more scanning elements to receive the data scanning event message, wherein the one or more scanning elements determine based on the pathname, identification information which scanning element is to process the data scanning message to access event-causing data from one or more data storage devices accessible to a networked computing system, and to scan the event-causing data.