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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 24, 2009
Filed:
Jan. 22, 2004
Applicant:
Frederic Perriot, Santa Monica, CA (US);
Inventor:
Frederic Perriot, Santa Monica, CA (US);
Assignee:
Symantec Corporation, Mountain View, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 11/00 (2006.01); G06F 12/14 (2006.01); G06F 12/16 (2006.01); G06F 9/45 (2006.01); G08B 23/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Methods, apparati, and computer-readable media for determining whether computer code () contains malicious code. In a method embodiment, the computer code () is optimized () to produce optimized code; and the optimized code is subject to a malicious code detection protocol. In an embodiment, the optimizing () comprises at least one of constant folding (), copy propagation (), non-obvious dead code elimination (), code motion (), peephole optimization (), abstract interpretation (), instruction specialization (), and control flow graph reduction ().