Patent ID: 8302191

Claim:
A computer implemented method for filtering malware related content for analysis, the method comprising the steps of: receiving malware related content forwarded from a plurality of sources that have received malware related content, by a computer; determining analysis priority ratings associated with specific ones of the plurality of sources, by a computer, each determined analysis priority rating indicating a priority for analyzing malware related content received from an associated source; creating a subset of received malware related content to be analyzed, based on at least available analysis resources and analysis priority ratings associated with sources from which malware related content is received, by a computer; responsive to a determined analysis priority rating associated with a source, transmitting submission instructions to that source, by a computer, the submission instructions directing that source as to how much malware related content to submit; receiving malware related content from that source according to the submission instructions, by a computer; adding all malware related content received from that source according to the submission instructions to the subset of malware related content to be analyzed, by a computer; and analyzing the subset of received malware related content, by a computer.