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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 03, 2020
Filed:
May. 13, 2019
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Jae Young Bang, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Youn Kyu Lee, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Nenad Medvidovic, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Daye Nam, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Gholamreza Safi, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Arman Shahbazian, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Peera Yoodee, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Yixue Zhao, Los Angeles, CA (US);
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Abstract
A system for providing increased security in a mobile operating system includes at least one mobile device and a remote computing device that is remote from the mobile device. The remote computing device receives a list of two or more applications that are currently installed or intended to be installed on the mobile device's operating system. The remote computing device identifies vulnerable inter-component communication (ICC) paths by analyzing files associated with each of the two or more applications. A list of the vulnerable ICC paths is stored in memory of the mobile device. The mobile processor compares the list of the vulnerable ICC paths to intents sent by the components of the two or more applications and identifies a potential unsecure intent that matches one of the list of the vulnerable ICC paths. Unsecured intents can then be blocked by the user.