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Vito J Sabella

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Brian Robert Crawford

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Mahmood Gulam Qadir

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Ken Ming-Kin Yip

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Vitaliy Titov

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Tae Hyung Kim

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Johnathon Christopher Henry

Ray Thompson

A method of operating a telemetry system includes automatically populating a base field of a schema in an event definition using a logging library of the telemetry system for an event of an instrumented application, and automatically populating a conditional field of the schema in the event definition using the logging library in response to a selected condition for the event.

Telemetry system extension

A method of operating a telemetry system includes automatically populating a first set of fields in a schema of an event definition using a logging library of the telemetry system, and receiving the set of fields via a request message in an application protocol.

Telemetry request system

A method of operating a telemetry system includes automatically populating a first set of fields in a schema of an event definition using a logging library of the telemetry system, and populating a second set of fields in the schema selected by an event author.

Telemetry definition system

An anti-debugger comprises spatially and temporally separate detection and response portions. In an example configuration, the anti-debugger is implemented into a game system for detecting and responding to a debugger attached to a game application. The detection portion is implemented on one thread of the system and the response portion is implemented on another thread of the system. When a debugger is detected, a message indicative of the detection is provided to a thread interface. The thread interface provides the message to the response portion. After a period of time has elapsed, the response portion disables the functionality of the game application, such as by halting the game execution and/or obfuscating game performance.

Anti-debugger comprising spatially and temporally separate detection and response portions

An anti-debugging mechanism is implemented into a game application, such that the anti-debugging mechanism is difficult to detect, difficult to bypass, and difficult to remove. The anti-debugging mechanism is implemented in a simulated thread pool. The anti-debugging mechanism executes on a different thread than the thread on which the game application executes and is randomly activated. When a debugger is detected, the performance of the debugger is hindered by halting the game application on a different thread than the game thread. Further, a period of time is allowed to elapse before the game application is halted.

Multi-threaded detection of a game software debugger

Simultaneous tamper-proofing and anti-piracy protection of software is provided by splitting applications into two parts: an application, and an application launcher. The application is subject to the tamper-proofing protections deployed by a networked service, while the application launcher is subject to anti-piracy protections. To ensure that the application benefits from the anti-piracy protection of the application launcher, the application and application launcher share a trusted challenge-response relationship. The application includes a challenger library for issuing challenges to the application launcher, and the application launcher includes a responder library for responding to such challenges.

Simultaneous tamper-proofing and anti-piracy protection of software

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