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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 11, 2026
Filed:
Sep. 13, 2024
Robert Bosch Gmbh, Stuttgart, DE;
Dominik Germek, Berlin, DE;
Maria Irina Nicolae, Stuttgart, DE;
ROBERT BOSCH GMBH, Stuttgart, DE;
Abstract
A software security checking device. The device includes: a rule database with rules, each associated with at least one of a plurality of software types and contains a criterion in terms of software feature(s), the rule stating that a piece of software that fulfills the criterion is malicious; an input interface configured to receive a specification of a piece of software; processor(s) configured to ascertain one or more software types of the plurality of software types that the software possesses, to ascertain which of the software features the software possesses, ascertain, for each of the rules associated with at least one of the one or more ascertained software types, whether the criterion that the rule contains is fulfilled, and determine that the software is malicious in response to it being ascertained, for at least one rule, that the criterion it contains is fulfilled.