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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 04, 2012
Filed:
Mar. 04, 2011
Perry W. Wilson, Laurel, MD (US);
J. Aaron Pendergrass, Silver Spring, MD (US);
C. Durward Mcdonell, Iii, Olney, MD (US);
Peter A. Loscocco, Glenwood, MD (US);
David J. Heine, Columbia, MD (US);
Bessie Y. Lewis, Owings Mills, MD (US);
Perry W. Wilson, Laurel, MD (US);
J. Aaron Pendergrass, Silver Spring, MD (US);
C. Durward McDonell, III, Olney, MD (US);
Peter A. Loscocco, Glenwood, MD (US);
David J. Heine, Columbia, MD (US);
Bessie Y. Lewis, Owings Mills, MD (US);
The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD (US);
Abstract
The present disclosure is directed towards methods and systems and methods for measuring the integrity of an operating system's execution and ensuring that the system's code is performing its intended functionality. This includes examining the integrity of the code that the operating system is executing as well as the data that the operating system accesses. Integrity violations can be detected in the dynamic portions of the code being executed.