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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 20, 2018
Filed:
Jun. 23, 2017
Mcafee Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Paritosh Saxena, Portland, OR (US);
Adrian M. M. T. Dunbar, London, GB;
Michael S. Hughes, San Francisco, CA (US);
John Teddy, Portland, OR (US);
David Michael Durham, Beaverton, OR (US);
Balaji Vembu, Folsom, CA (US);
Prashant Dewan, Hillsboro, OR (US);
Debra Cablao, Hillsboro, OR (US);
Nicholas D. Triantafillou, Portland, OR (US);
Jason M. Surprise, Beaverton, OR (US);
MCAFEE, INC., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
Computing platform security methods and apparatus are disclosed. An example apparatus includes a security application to configure a security task, the security task to detect a malicious element on a computing platform, the computing platform including a central processing unit and a graphics processing unit; and an offloader to determine whether the central processing unit or the graphics processing unit is to execute the security task; and when the graphics processing unit is to execute the security task, offload the security task to the graphics processing unit for execution.