Qualcomm Incorporated

Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc.

Oracle International Corporation

Amazon Technologies, Inc.

Phani Bhushan Avadhanam

Nuthan Seegehalli Hanumanthappa

Ashok Mantravadi

Michael K Bailey

Vinay Murthy

Shusheel Gautam

Xintian Li

Robert Stacey

Michael Orlando DeVico

Ying Gao

Jian Zhang

Paul Richard Ellis

Ramkumar Sampathkumar

Siddharth Jayaraman

Michael Devico

Manas Abichandani

Viktor Filiba

Tong Tang

Rob Stacey

Aspects of the disclosure include a dynamic cloud workload reallocation based on an active ransomware attack. An example method includes receiving a first message that a computing instance is potentially infected by ransomware. The method further includes receiving a security state-based metric related to the computing instance based at least in part on the first message. The method further includes comparing the security state-based metric to a threshold metric. The method further incudes determining a likelihood of a ransomware attack based at least in part on the comparison. The method further includes transmitting second message to a job scheduler to reschedule workloads directed toward the computing instance based at least in part on the determination.

Real-time monitoring for ransomware attacks using exception-level transition metrics

The present embodiments relate to identifying and mitigating memory bit flips in a cloud infrastructure service. The cloud infrastructure service can provide a monitoring system to monitor low level memory space to detect bit flips by the DRAM instances in the cloud infrastructure service. The bit flips detected in various DRAM computing instances can be processed to verify that the bit flips are sustained (e.g., and possibly relating to a Rowhammer attack) rather than transitory bit flips occurring in DRAM computing devices. Responsive to validating a set of bit flips at one or more computing instances, workloads associated with the affected computing instances can be migrated to other computing instances in the cloud infrastructure service.

Dynamic cloud workload reallocation based on active security exploits in dynamic random access memory (DRAM)

An identity management server can be used to provide identity-based authentication and access control mechanism for devices trying to connect to a network or other devices on the network. The identity management server may authenticate a user associated with a device based on the past behavior information of the user received from another device associated with the user. The identity management server may generate a trust score based on multiple attributes associated with the user and the device, and authenticate the user if the trust score is within an acceptable limit. The identity management server may also generate access permissions for the device, which can be used by a network device to grant or deny access to the network.

Identity-based authentication and access control mechanism

Methods and systems provide for activating a second processor by a first processor in a dual processor device early within an initialization routine to enable the second processor to help complete initialization operations. The first processor may prepare a second processor chip for start up, configure the second chip's pins, program the second processor, download a firmware image on the second processor, and initiate operations on the second processor. By performing this initialization early within the initialization routine, the second processor can assist in the initialization routine.

Methods and apparatus for priority initialization of a second processor

A framework and associated systems and methods for testing mobile communication devices are disclosed. An exemplary method includes receiving user-action data from each of a plurality of user-action-capture devices. The user-action data received from the user-action-capture devices includes data that characterizes a plurality of user actions that were performed on the user-action-capture devices. The user-action data is consolidated into generic representations of the user actions to create a superset of generally-applicable-user-action data, and each generic representation of a user action in the superset represents two or more similar user actions. The generally-applicable-user-action data is then used to test mobile communication devices that are different than the user-action-capture devices.

Framework for testing and evaluating mobile communication devices

A computing device comprising an operating system comprising one or more operating system features, a plurality of applications and a background service. A first of the plurality of applications is adapted to create one or more privacy groups and associate a remainder of the plurality of applications with at least one of the one or more privacy groups. The background service is adapted to (i) communicate with the first of the plurality of applications and the one or more operating system features, and (ii) associate at least one of the remainder of the plurality of applications and one of the one or more privacy groups with the one or more operating system features.

Privacy application and method

Methods and mobile devices for performing operations responsive to user actions are disclosed. The method includes prompting a user of a mobile device to make a particular action that is detectable by the mobile device, and prompting the user to select a particular operation that the user desires to have effectuated when the particular action is subsequently carried out. In addition, an indicator of the particular action is stored on the mobile device in connection with an indicator of the particular operation to associate the particular action with the particular operation. And after registration, when the particular action is sensed with the mobile device, the particular operation is effectuated.

Mobile communication-device-controlled operations

A very intuitive and simple set of touch-screen input steps along with the processing of those input steps allows a user to appear to gather shareable files with his fingers on one touch-screen apparatus, lift the files from the touch-screen and drop the shareable files on a touch screen of a second, co-located touch-screen apparatus. The touch-screen apparatus initiating the transfer of files is preset with sharing parameters to manage the transfer of files to a local or remote server. One or more touch-screen apparatus accepting the transfer of files is preset with acceptance parameters to manage the transfer of files from the server to the accepting touch-screen apparatus. Once the files are at the server, multiple touch-screen apparatus may be used to request shareable files from the server.

Transferring data by touch between touch-screen devices

A signal may be received in accordance with a protocol stack having a first portion () that contains a control layer and a stream layer, and a second portion () that contains a physical layer and a MAC layer. The first portion may invoke an application program interface (API) to instruct the second portion to replace a current set of signal acquisition parameters with an initial set of signal acquisition parameters.

Application programming interface (API) for restoring a default scan list in a wireless communications receiver

Methods and systems provide a burst access protocol that enables efficient transfer of data between a first and a second processor via a data interface whose access set up time could present a communication bottleneck. Data, indices, and/or instructions are transmitted in a static table from the first processor and stored in memory accessible to the second processor. Later, the first processor transmit to the second processor a dynamic table which specifies particular data, indices and/or instructions within the static table that are to be implemented by the second processor. The second processor uses the dynamic table to implement the identified particular subset of data, indices and/or instructions. By transmitting the bulk of data, indices and/or instructions to the second processor in a large static table, the burst access protocol enables efficient use of data interfaces which can transmit large amounts of information, but require relatively long access setup times.

Burst access protocol

Systems, methods, and apparatuses are disclosed for presenting applications to a user, via a mobile wireless communication device (user equipment), that are selected and ranked based on context information describing a location and type of motion of the user equipment, and/or a time that the ranking request was made, compared to context information describing the applications.

Location based apps ranking for mobile wireless computing and communicating devices

Methods and systems for applying power to a mobile device responsive to user actions are disclosed. An exemplary method includes detecting, while a mobile device is powered down, actions made by a user in connection with the user handling the mobile device without pressing a power button of the mobile device. A prediction is then made that the user is about to power up the mobile device based upon particular actions made by the user. And before the user presses the power button, power is applied to processing and network communication components of the mobile device so that if the user presses the power button, the processing and network communication components are already powered; thus reducing an amount of time it takes for the mobile device to access a network with the mobile device.

Mobile communication device with improved network connectivity

Methods and apparatus for power measurement in a communication system. In an aspect, a method is provided for power measurement. The method includes selecting between a signal decoding mode and a power measurement mode, decoding an input signal if the signal decoding mode is selected, and calculating a power measurement associated with the input signal if the power measurement mode is selected. In another aspect, an apparatus is provided for power measurement. The apparatus includes means for selecting between an active mode and a power measurement mode, means for decoding an input signal if the active mode is selected, and means for calculating a power measurement associated with the input signal if the power measurement mode is selected.

Methods and apparatus for power measurement in a communication system

An apparatus and method for automatic mobile device crash notification to a wireless network comprising setting configuration parameters for automatic notification if a crash occurs, detecting at least one stalled condition to determine if the crash occurred, gathering crash data, establishing a reverse link data call to the wireless network, and transferring the crash data to the wireless network.

Apparatus and method for automatic mobile device crash notification

Methods and apparatus for network re-creation in controlled environments. In an aspect, a method for network re-creation is provided. The method includes determining a logging window, logging at least one re-creation parameter during the logging window to produce a re-creation log, and storing the re-creation log. In an aspect, an apparatus for network re-creation is provided. The apparatus includes a re-creation processor configured to determine a logging window, and log at least one re-creation parameter during the logging window to produce a re-creation log, and log storage configured to store the re-creation log. In an aspect, a method for network re-creation is provided. The method includes obtaining a re-creation log, determining at least one re-creation parameter from the re-creation log, and re-creating a network environment based on the at least one re-creation parameter.

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Phani Bhushan Avadhanam