Appeal No. 1997-2158 Page 2
Application No. 08/234,239
BACKGROUND
The invention at issue in this appeal relates to validity
checking in a computer network. Validity checking examines
data from a computer program to learn if unwanted instructions
are present. Such checking may detect a computer virus before
it is executed.
In a computer network, each workstation may include its
own validity checking software. Upon boot-up, each
workstation runs its software to check for instructions
indicative of a virus. Such an arrangement occupies memory
space in each workstation. Updating validity checking program
files and data files is laborious, moreover, because each
workstation must be updated.
The invention employs networked workstations and a server
to conduct validity checking without the aforementioned memory
capacity and updating problems. Specifically, one of the
workstations copies a computer program that requires checking
to the server. The server runs software to check for
instructions indicative of a virus and reports the results of
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