Patent ID: 8621630

Claim:
A cloud-based content inspection system for mobile devices, comprising: a content inspection system, accessible by a remotely located mobile device, for providing cloud-based content inspection for the remotely located mobile device, the content inspection system including: a content inspection server for receiving from the mobile device a HTTP request including HTTP headers providing threat types, a timestamp for ensuring the HTTP request is not received by the content inspection server after a predetermined limit, a subscription key providing a unique identifier of the mobile device, and a digital fingerprint of content comprising a hash value of the content for evaluation for threats; and a data reputation services server for maintaining a threat database; wherein the content inspection system communicates with the remotely located mobile device using a service oriented architecture web services based on exchange of messages between agents of the content inspection system and the remotely located mobile device, the content inspection server authenticating that the HTTP request to was received from a subscriber, once the HTTP request is authenticated the data reputation services server determines whether the content identified by the digital fingerprint matches pre-existing claims in the threat database, wherein the content inspection system provides a threat evaluation response to the mobile device based on reviewing the threat database for pre-existing claims.