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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 02, 2025
Filed:
Dec. 19, 2022
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Andrew Zawadowskiy, Hollis, NH (US);
Vincent E. Parla, North Hampton, NH (US);
Thomas Szigeti, Vancouver, CA;
Oleg Bessonov, Littleton, MA (US);
Ashok Krishnaji Moghe, Pleasanton, CA (US);
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
Techniques and systems described herein relate to monitoring executions of computer instructions on computing devices based on learning and generating a control flow directed graph. The techniques and systems include determining an observation phase for a process or application on a computing device. During the observation phase, CPU telemetry is determined and used to generate a control flow directed graph. After the control flow directed graph is generated, a monitoring phase may be entered where transfers of instruction pointers are monitored based on the control flow directed graph to identify invalid transfers.