John Hile, inventor and software pioneer, holds 5 relevant patents in areas of security, data transfer and automation of computer-to-computer connections. His technologies have been leaders in their category and been included in products from Microsoft, IBM, McAffee and Symantec. In 1992 his team was the first to develop real-time virus scanning for file transfer which prevents the download of malware. For 27 years he was the vice president of R&D for Hilgraeve Inc., a computer communications software company which offered secure file exchange for connecting doctors offices, hospitals, insurance and medical labs which used over 350 different, incompatible computerized systems. Their technology, HyperSend, became the healthcare industry standard and Hilgraeve was sold to Covisint, a subsidiary of Compuware in 2008.