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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.

Date of Patent:
Oct. 03, 2023

Filed:

Jan. 28, 2020
Applicant:

Mcafee, Llc, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Inventors:

Paritosh Saxena, Portland, OR (US);

Adrian M. M. T. Dunbar, London, GB;

Michael S. Hughes, San Francisco, CA (US);

John Teddy, Portland, OR (US);

David Michael Durham, Beaverton, OR (US);

Balaji Vembu, Folsom, CA (US);

Prashant Dewan, Hillsboro, OR (US);

Debra Cablao, Hillsboro, OR (US);

Nicholas D. Triantafillou, Portland, OR (US);

Jason M. Surprise, Beaverton, OR (US);

Assignee:

MCAFEE, LLC, San Jose, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/50 (2006.01); G06F 21/55 (2013.01); G06F 21/74 (2013.01); G06F 12/14 (2006.01); G06F 21/75 (2013.01); G06F 21/44 (2013.01); G06F 21/56 (2013.01); G06F 21/57 (2013.01); G06F 21/71 (2013.01); G06F 1/28 (2006.01); G06F 9/455 (2018.01); G06T 1/20 (2006.01); G09G 5/36 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/552 (2013.01); G06F 1/28 (2013.01); G06F 9/5027 (2013.01); G06F 12/14 (2013.01); G06F 12/145 (2013.01); G06F 12/1491 (2013.01); G06F 21/445 (2013.01); G06F 21/554 (2013.01); G06F 21/56 (2013.01); G06F 21/566 (2013.01); G06F 21/57 (2013.01); G06F 21/71 (2013.01); G06F 21/74 (2013.01); G06F 21/755 (2017.08); G06F 9/45558 (2013.01); G06F 2009/45587 (2013.01); G06F 2209/509 (2013.01); G06F 2212/1052 (2013.01); G06F 2221/034 (2013.01); G06F 2221/2149 (2013.01); G06T 1/20 (2013.01); G09G 5/363 (2013.01); Y02D 10/00 (2018.01);
Abstract

Computing platform security methods and apparatus are disclosed. An example apparatus includes a graphics processor; and a graphics driver to facilitate access to the graphics processor, the graphics driver including: an authenticator to establish a trusted channel between the graphics driver and an application driver via mutual authentication of the graphics driver and the application driver; an offloader to offload a computing task to the graphics processor via the trusted channel, the computing task associated with the application driver; and a hypervisor to monitor memory associated with the offloaded computing task for an unauthorized access attempt.


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