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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 30, 2018
Filed:
Apr. 18, 2016
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
John V Sell, Los Altos, CA (US);
MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
A data processing machine is configured to include one or more buried memory zones that are not intelligibly accessible to user software and to operating system software or hypervisor software within the data processing machine. At least one of hardware and firmware are configured to intelligibly access at least one of the buried memory zones so as to store therein, metadata defining one or more extents of a respective one or more protected regions (PR's) that are constituted in other memory areas of the data processing machine. The stored metadata defines constraints for the corresponding PR's including at least one of corresponding operational constraints and/or operational requirements that respectively constrain the operations performed by or on the data of the PR's.