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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 19, 2020
Filed:
Mar. 27, 2015
Mcafee, Llc, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Alexander J. Hinchliffe, San Jose, CA (US);
Pablo R. Passera, San Jose, CA (US);
Ranjith Kumar Jidigam, San Jose, CA (US);
Alger Wan Kwong Yeung, Pleasanton, CA (US);
Simon Hunt, Naples, FL (US);
McAfee, LLC, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
Particular embodiments may include a system, apparatus, method, and/or machine readable storage medium for determining sensor usage by: detecting, at a level below an operating system executing on a computing device, one or more requests from an application to access one or more sensors associated with the computing device; determining, based on the one or more requests from the application to access the one or more sensors, that the application requested unexpected access to the one or more sensors; and performing a remedial action in response to the unexpected access requested by the application.