Seshagiri Prabhu Narasimha

Title: Seshagiri Prabhu Narasimha and Automated Input-Structure Extraction

Introduction

Seshagiri Prabhu Narasimha is an inventor associated with the University of Louisiana at Lafayette in Lafayette, Louisiana. His patent work addresses how software can automatically identify and describe the structures of inputs accepted by binary programs.

Latest Patents

Narasimha is associated with 1 patent: “Method for Extracting the Structure of an Input for a Binary Program.” The disclosed method automatically infers a recursive state machine (RSM) that describes the acceptable input space of an arbitrary binary program. It identifies fixed- and variable-length atomic fields, along with syntactic elements such as separators and terminators, and generalizes them into regular-expression tokens. The method then organizes those tokens into an RSM representing structures such as arrays and records, using nested states for more complex structures. The resulting RSM can serve as an independent parser for the program’s acceptable input.

Career Highlights

The patent reflects work at the intersection of software analysis and input parsing. By inferring input structure from a binary program, the method offers a way to represent complex input formats without relying solely on manually written specifications.

Collaborations

Narasimha’s listed coworker is Arun Lakhotia. His institutional affiliation is the University of Louisiana at Lafayette.

Conclusion

Seshagiri Prabhu Narasimha’s patent describes an automated approach to discovering and modeling binary-program input formats, with potential use in parsing and software analysis.