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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 17, 2015
Filed:
Feb. 23, 2009
Sumedh N. Barde, Redmond, WA (US);
Jonathan D. Schwartz, Kirkland, WA (US);
Reid Joseph Kuhn, Seattle, WA (US);
Alexandre Vicktorovich Grigorovitch, Redmond, WA (US);
Kirt A. Debique, Seattle, WA (US);
Chadd B. Knowlton, Bellevue, WA (US);
James M. Alkove, Woodinville, WA (US);
Geoffrey T. Dunbar, Kirkland, WA (US);
Michael J. Grier, Woodinville, WA (US);
Ming MA, Bellevue, WA (US);
Chaitanya D. Upadhyay, Kirkland, WA (US);
Adil Ahmed Sherwani, Seattle, WA (US);
Arun Upadhyaya Kishan, Bellevue, WA (US);
Sumedh N. Barde, Redmond, WA (US);
Jonathan D. Schwartz, Kirkland, WA (US);
Reid Joseph Kuhn, Seattle, WA (US);
Alexandre Vicktorovich Grigorovitch, Redmond, WA (US);
Kirt A. Debique, Seattle, WA (US);
Chadd B. Knowlton, Bellevue, WA (US);
James M. Alkove, Woodinville, WA (US);
Geoffrey T. Dunbar, Kirkland, WA (US);
Michael J. Grier, Woodinville, WA (US);
Ming Ma, Bellevue, WA (US);
Chaitanya D. Upadhyay, Kirkland, WA (US);
Adil Ahmed Sherwani, Seattle, WA (US);
Arun Upadhyaya Kishan, Bellevue, WA (US);
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
A method of establishing a protected environment within a computing device including validating a kernel component loaded into a kernel of the computing device, establishing a security state for the kernel based on the validation, creating a secure process and loading a software component into the secure process, periodically checking the security state of the kernel, and notifying the secure process when the security state of the kernel has changed.