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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 01, 2016
Filed:
Nov. 12, 2014
Applicant:
Vormetric, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Inventors:
Feng Pan, San Jose, CA (US);
Sri Sudarsan, San Jose, CA (US);
Assignee:
Vormetric, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/44 (2006.01); G06F 9/54 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/54 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method for interposing on operating system calls in a host is provided. The method includes patching an operating system kernel function, the patching comprising adding a first pointer that invokes an agent function, the patching performed by an agent. The method includes executing the agent function, responsive to a system call stub calling the operating system kernel function, which invokes the agent function via the first pointer, wherein at least one action of the method is performed by a processor of a host having an operating system.