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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 26, 2025
Filed:
Oct. 09, 2020
Applicant:
Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Inventors:
Assignee:
NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/14 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/14 (2013.01);
Abstract
The program protection device () includes an encoding unit () and an output unit (). An encoding unit () encodes a program to be protected according to a specific encoding algorithm, and stores information used for decoding the encoded program in a relocation table of the encoded program. The output unit () outputs the program encoded by the encoding unit () as a protected program.