Web Reputation Service System for Malicious Content Filtering
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current solutions fail to provide enhanced security for computer users against various online threats such as viruses, malware, spyware, adware, and phishing, as they lack real-time reputation-based filtering and warning systems for websites and web content.
Innovation Solution
A Web reputation service system that uses a real-time database query interface to assess the reputation of web content through link structure analysis, white and black lists, heuristic tests, and user feedback, providing warnings and filtering mechanisms to prevent interactions with malicious sites and content.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If real-time reputation analysis is implemented, then user security is improved, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a reputation service host as an intermediary component that mediates between the client and web content. This host maintains a database of reputation information and automatically evaluates websites, scripts, and other content before user interaction, thereby improving security without requiring complex analysis logic to be distributed across all client devices.
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs preliminary reputation analysis of web content before the user interacts with it. The reputation service host proactively evaluates websites, scripts, and other content by checking them against stored reputation data and automatically running tests, so that security assessments are completed in advance rather than during user interaction.
2Measurement precision
If automatic testing of web content is performed, then measurement precision of reputation is improved, but loss of time increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs automatic testing and reputation evaluation of web content in advance, before users need to access it. The reputation service host automatically tests websites, scripts, and other content against various security criteria and stores the results in a database, so that when users access the content, the reputation assessment is already complete and immediate.
Solution Approach 2:
The system implements a feedback mechanism where reputation information is continuously updated and stored in a database. The reputation service host receives feedback from automatic testing, user reports, and other sources, updates the reputation database accordingly, and uses this feedback to improve future assessments, thereby increasing precision over time while reducing redundant testing.
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AI summary
An aspect of the present invention relates to methods and systems involving automatically generating a third party assessment of a website's reputation, and storing an indicia of the assessment in a format and location that may be accessible by a client computing facility attempting to interact with the website.