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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:
Dec. 24, 2024

Filed:

Jul. 17, 2020
Applicant:

Blackberry Limited, Waterloo, CA;

Inventors:

Glenn Daniel Wurster, Kitchener, CA;

Benjamin Gnahm, Augsburg, DE;

Paul Henri Michel Virally, Westmount, CA;

Assignee:

BlackBerry Limited, Waterloo, CA;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/55 (2013.01); G06F 21/52 (2013.01); G06F 21/56 (2013.01); G06F 21/57 (2013.01); G06F 21/79 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/554 (2013.01); G06F 21/52 (2013.01); G06F 21/566 (2013.01); G06F 21/577 (2013.01); G06F 21/79 (2013.01);
Abstract

A computer-implemented method is disclosed. The method includes: identifying a set of program variables associated with a computer program; generating a profile of variable writes for the computer program based on tracking, for each variable in the set of program variables: a count of memory write operations for writing to the variable; and timestamps associated with the memory write operations; detecting a trigger condition associated with the set of program variables, the detecting including: monitoring a pattern of memory accesses by the computer program, the pattern of memory accesses indicating accesses of memory allocated to variables in the set of program variables; and detecting a deviation of the pattern of memory accesses from the profile of variable writes; and in response to detecting the trigger condition, generating a notification indicating an attack status on the computer program.


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