System, method and computer program product for displaying security actions for undo purposes
AssigneeMcAfee, Inc.
InventorsRyan Scott Russell, Jason Edward Dishlip
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Abstract
A security system, method and computer program product are provided. In use, a plurality of security actions is conducted. The plurality of security actions are further displayed to a user. In addition, a selection of one or more of the security actions is received from the user. Further, the selected one or more security actions are undone.
Claims23
A method of operating a computer, comprising:
- conducting, by the computer and on the computer, a plurality of security actions relating to the operations of the computer;
- displaying, by the computer, said plurality of security actions to a user;
- receiving, by the computer, a selection of one of said plurality of security actions from the user;
- determining, by the computer, whether said selected one of said plurality of security actions has been conducted by the computer and on the computer in multiple instances;
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- undoing, by the computer and on the computer, said selected one of said plurality of security actions;
- wherein, in response to the determination that said selected one of said plurality of security actions has been conducted by the computer and on the computer in multiple instances, the undoing said selected one of said plurality of security actions includes undoing, by the computer and on the computer, a plurality of said multiple instances of said selected one of said plurality of security actions in response to a selection of only one of said multiple instances.
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A non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing computer code for causing a computer to perform the following method, the method comprising:
- conducting, by the computer and on the computer, a plurality of security actions relating to the operations of the computer;
- displaying, by the computer, said plurality of security actions to a user;
- receiving, by the computer, a selection of one of said plurality of security actions from the user;
- determining, by the computer, whether said selected one of said plurality of security actions has been conducted by the computer and on the computer in multiple instances;
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- undoing, by the computer and on the computer, said selected one of said plurality of security actions;
- wherein in response to the determination that said selected one of said plurality of security actions has been conducted by the computer and on the computer in multiple instances, the undoing said selected one of said plurality of security actions includes undoing, by the computer and on the computer, a plurality of said multiple instances of said selected one of said plurality of said security actions in response to a selection of only one of said multiple instances.
A computer system, comprising:
- a processor for conducting on the computer system a plurality of security actions relating to the operations of the computer system and determining whether one of said plurality of security actions has been conducted by said processor on the computer system in multiple instances;
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- a graphical user interface for displaying said plurality of security actions to a user and receiving a selection of one of said plurality of security actions from the user;
- wherein the computer system is operable such that said selected one of said plurality of security actions is undone on the computer system;
- wherein the computer system is operable such that the undoing said selected one of said plurality of security actions includes, in response to the determination that said selected one of said plurality of security actions has been conducted on the computer system in multiple instances, undoing a plurality of said multiple instances of said selected one of said plurality of security actions on the computer system in response to a selection of only one of said multiple instances.
The method of claim 23, wherein the updating of said displayed plurality of security actions to indicate said selection includes displaying said selection of said one of said plurality of security actions in a non-selectable form, where the non-selectable form is grayed out.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.