Blue Coat Systems Inc patents

Method for integrating applications

In certain embodiments, a method includes mapping, by a first application, personally identifiable information to an anonymous identification, generating, by the first application, a key, and sending, by a first appliance, the anonymous identification and the key to a second appliance, wherein the first appliance comprises the first application. The... Blue Coat Systems Inc

Grouped categorization of internet content

In one embodiment, a device in a network classifies Internet content data using one or more classifiers to identify a plurality of content classes for the content data. Each content class has a corresponding classification score based on the classification. The device determines whether any of the classification scores exceed... Blue Coat Systems Inc

System and hierarchical and chained internet security analysis

According to one embodiment, a method for predicting the trustworthiness of a particular website comprising receiving information about a plurality of websites and constructing a hierarchy of groups from the received information, the hierarchy of groups comprising one or more tiers and each tier comprising one or more groups. The... Blue Coat Systems Inc

Methods and blocking unwanted software downloads

Methods and systems for blocking unwanted software downloads within a network. Such methods may thereby prevent (i) downloads of spyware from one or more identified locations, and/or (ii) certain outbound communications from the network and/or may also permit software downloads only from specified locations. In general, the policies are defined... Blue Coat Systems Inc

Previewing file information over a network

An example embodiment of the present invention provides a process for opening and reading a file over a network, including a WAN. In the example embodiment, an edge file gateway appliance (or server) receives a request from an application such as a tile manager to open a file cached with... Blue Coat Systems Inc