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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 04, 2025
Filed:
Jul. 29, 2022
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC., Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Filesystem driver software can receive a file access request indicating that an application process is requesting to access a target file in a filesystem, Network filter driver software can receive a connection establishment request indicating that the application process running on the processing apparatus is requesting to establish a connection over a network with a target endpoint. According to the present disclosure, one or both of: a) the filesystem driver software is configured to grant or deny the file access request in dependence on state information from the network filter driver software, and/or b) the network filter driver software is configured to grant or deny the connection establishment request in dependence on state information from the filesystem driver software.