Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Ruoming Pang

Ramarathnam R Venkatesan

Mariusz Hieronim Jakubowski

Yuqun Chen

Matthew C Cary

Saurabh Sinha

An implementation of a technology, described herein, for facilitating the protection of computer-executable instructions, such as software. At least one implementation, described herein, may generate integrity signatures of one or more program modules&#x2014;which are sets of computer-executable instructions&#x2014;based upon a trace of activity during execution of such modules and/or near-replicas of such modules. With at least one implementation, described herein, the execution context of an execution instance of a program module is considered when generating the integrity signatures. With at least one implementation, described herein, a determination may be made about whether a module is unaltered by comparing integrity signatures. This abstract itself is not intended to limit the scope of this patent. The scope of the present invention is pointed out in the appending claims.

Integrity ordainment and ascertainment of computer-executable instructions with consideration for execution context

An implementation of a technology, described herein, for facilitating the protection computer-executable instructions, such as software. At least one implementation, described herein, may generate integrity signatures of multiple sets of computer-executable instructions based upon the output trace and/or an execution trace of such sets. With at least one implementation, described herein, a determination may be made about whether two or more of such sets are unaltered duplicates by comparing integrity signatures of such sets. This abstract itself is not intended to limit the scope of this patent. The scope of the present invention is pointed out in the appending claims.

Integrity ordainment and ascertainment of computer-executable instructions

An implementation of a technology, described herein, for facilitating the protection computer-executable instructions, such as software. At least one implementation, described herein, may generate integrity signatures of one or more program modules&#x2014;which are sets of computer-executable instructions&#x2014;based upon a trace of activity during execution of such modules and/or near-replicas of such modules. With at least one implementation, described herein, the execution context of an execution instance of a program module is considered when generating the integrity signatures. With at least one implementation, described herein, a determination may be made about whether a module is unaltered by comparing integrity signatures. This abstract itself is not intended to limit the scope of this patent. The scope of the present invention is pointed out in the appending claims.

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