Patents by Inventor Ambrose Treacy

Ambrose Treacy has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Anti-virus security information in an extensible markup language document
    Patent number: 7509573
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for allowing software applications capable of reading and saving Extensible Markup Language (XML) representations of documents to quickly and efficiently detect the presence of executable code contained in a given document being read or saved by the software applications. Examples of executable code include, but are not limited to macros, VBA macros, OLE code, OCX or ActiveX controls, embedded executable objects, and the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2009
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Brian Jones, Marcin Sawicki, Robert Little, Daniel Snyder, Ambrose Treacy