Cloud Antivirus System Resolving Resource and Detection Contradictions
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current antivirus solutions run on user computers, limiting simultaneous use, consuming resources, and requiring multiple licenses, with slow updates to detect new viruses.
Innovation Solution
Implementing a cloud-based antivirus system that runs multiple antivirus options remotely, using a lightweight client and a hash database to scan files without direct access to the user's machine, allowing for simultaneous and efficient virus detection without additional resource usage or licensing costs.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If multiple antivirus options are run on the user's machine, then virus detection effectiveness is improved, but device complexity and resource consumption increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a cloud server as an intermediary that hosts multiple antivirus engines remotely. The user's machine only needs to communicate with this single intermediary server, which then coordinates multiple antivirus options in the cloud. This resolves the contradiction by allowing multiple antivirus engines to work together (improving detection effectiveness) while the user's system only interacts with one simple interface (maintaining low device complexity).
Solution Approach 2:
The patent moves the antivirus processing from the local dimension (user's machine) to a remote dimension (cloud server). By transitioning antivirus operations to another dimensional space (the cloud), the system can run multiple antivirus engines without increasing the complexity or resource consumption of the user's local system, while still achieving improved virus detection effectiveness.
2Reliability
If multiple antivirus options are run simultaneously, then detection coverage is improved, but resource consumption increases
Solution Approach 1:
The cloud server acts as an intermediary that absorbs all the computing resource demands of multiple antivirus engines. The user's machine only sends files to be scanned and receives results, consuming minimal local resources. This resolves the contradiction by enabling comprehensive multi-engine detection coverage while the resource-intensive operations are performed remotely on the server infrastructure.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent extracts the resource-intensive antivirus processing operations from the user's machine and places them in the cloud environment. By taking out the heavy computational workload from the local system, multiple antivirus engines can run simultaneously with full detection coverage while the user's computing resources remain largely unconsumed.
3Ease of operation
If antivirus software runs on the user's computer, then direct access to files is improved, but computing resources and memory are consumed
Solution Approach 1:
The cloud server serves as an intermediary that handles all the computationally intensive antivirus scanning operations. The user's machine maintains simple file access capabilities while the actual virus detection work is performed remotely. This resolves the contradiction by preserving ease of file access and operation while eliminating local resource consumption through remote processing.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent implements a model where files are copied to the cloud server for scanning rather than running scanning software locally. The user's machine sends copies of files to be analyzed, and receives results without the heavy resource consumption of local antivirus operations. This copying approach maintains ease of operation while transferring resource demands to the cloud infrastructure.
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AI summary
The present invention relates to antivirus protection and more particularly to antivirus protection in a cloud server. The present invention protects a user machine from a virus while allowing the user to get the benefit of using multiple antivirus options without the need to run the antivirus options on the user machine.