US Patent 10305923 Server-supported malware detection and protection

A method includes receiving, at a server, a first file attribute from a computing device, the first file attribute associated with a file. The method also includes determining, based on the first file attribute, that a classification for the file is unavailable. The method further includes determining the classification for the file based on a trained file classification model accessible to the server and sending the classification to the computing device. The method includes sending at least the classification to a base prediction cache associated with a second server.