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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 10, 2018
Filed:
Jun. 27, 2014
Qualcomm Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
Nayeem Islam, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Rajarshi Gupta, Sunnyvalle, CA (US);
QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
Abstract
Methods, devices, and non-transitory storage media for dynamic patching of diversity-based software executing on a computing device. One of many variations of various module utilized by software may be selected from a list of available module variations to be used when software is executed. An embodiment method for updating software may include obtaining or receiving a notification indicating a particular module variation that should not be used as a module for the software, and removing the module variation from the list of available module variations for the module in response to the notification. In some embodiments, the notification may be received by the mobile device from a remote server, and further the notification does not include data capable of being used as a module by the software during runtime. In some embodiments, the module variation may be one of flawed, outdated, and identified as exploited by malware.