Symantec patents on microdefinition system. (Security Supplement).
Symantec Corp say that the company received two new patents for its
microdefinition technology. This allows users to download only those
incremental virus definitions that are new since their last update,
saving time and resources. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office issued
Patent US6052531 to Symantec for multitiered incremental software
updating technology and Patent US6167407 for backtracked incremental
updating. Together, these patented technologies make up Symantec's
microdefinition system, which is currently included in Norton Anti-Virus
Corporate Edition 7.5, a component of Symantec Enterprise
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