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Date of Patent:
Aug. 04, 2026

Filed:

Oct. 06, 2023
Applicant:

Blackberry Limited, Waterloo, CA;

Inventors:

Zhizhou Song, Kingston, CA;

Honghui Ding, Kingston, CA;

Yuan Tian, Kingston, CA;

Li Tao Li, Toronto, CA;

Weihan Ou, Vancouver, CA;

Assignee:

BlackBerry Limited, Waterloo, CA;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/00 (2013.01); G06F 21/56 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/566 (2013.01); G06F 2221/033 (2013.01);
Abstract

There is provided a method and apparatus for identifying malicious code. The method uses machine learning to compare a new code segment to known code segments of malicious code. Code segments are converted to vectors and the cosine similarity of two vectors is used to identify clones. Techniques to train a neural network for handling very long code sequences and obfuscated malicious code are used.


Find Patent Forward Citations

Song, Zhizhou. (2026). Method and apparatus for clone search (U.S. Patent No. 12699773). U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. https://idiyas.com/patent/badge/12699773

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