Patent Document ID: 9167000
Application ID: 11353828
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A method for a content-driven threat management system, the method comprising: creating a threat detection primary object with threat mitigation data using at least one researcher of at least one of software and malicious code; encoding the threat detection primary object with threat mitigation data within an object capable of being transmitted to a personal computer system using a transmission vector update function; transmitting the object comprising the encoded threat detection primary object with threat mitigation data to a threat agent using the transmission vector update function; updating a first threat function using the threat agent to update at least one first threat functional description of the first threat function to include the threat detection primary object with threat mitigation data, the first threat function consisting of a first element chosen from the group consisting of a firewall, an anti-virus program, an anti-spyware program, a universal resource locator (URL) filter, and a URL management program; updating a second threat function using the threat agent to update at least one second threat functional description of the second threat function to include the threat detection primary object with threat mitigation data that was included in the first threat functional description, the second threat function consisting of a second element chosen from the group, the second element different from the first element; using the threat detection primary object with threat mitigation data to recognize at least one threat event based upon the threat detection primary object with threat mitigation data; responding, by the first threat function, to the at least one threat event as directed by the threat detection primary object by executing one or more functions of the first threat function; and responding, by the second threat function, to the at least one threat event as directed by the threat detection primary object by executing one or more functions of the second threat function.