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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 03, 2021
Filed:
Oct. 18, 2019
Applicant:
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Inventors:
Michael LeMay, Hillsboro, OR (US);
David M. Durham, Beaverton, OR (US);
Men Long, Hillsboro, OR (US);
Assignee:
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/56 (2013.01); G06F 12/0802 (2016.01); G06F 12/1009 (2016.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/567 (2013.01); G06F 12/0802 (2013.01); G06F 12/1009 (2013.01); G06F 21/564 (2013.01); G06F 2212/1052 (2013.01); G06F 2212/151 (2013.01); G06F 2212/683 (2013.01);
Abstract
Memory scanning methods and apparatus are disclosed. An example apparatus includes an address identifier to, when an entry of a paging structure has been accessed, determine a first address corresponding to a page of physical memory when the entry of the paging structure maps to the page of the physical memory; and a scanner to: scan a threshold amount of memory beginning at a physical memory address corresponding to the first address; and determine whether the threshold amount of memory includes a pattern indicative of malware.