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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 03, 2018
Filed:
Jan. 12, 2017
Hard object: lightweight hardware enforcement of encapsulation, unforgeability, and transactionality
Applicants:
Daniel Shawcross Wilkerson, Berkeley, CA (US);
Mark William Winterrowd, San Francisco, CA (US);
Inventors:
Daniel Shawcross Wilkerson, Berkeley, CA (US);
Mark William Winterrowd, San Francisco, CA (US);
Assignee:
Other;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/45 (2006.01); G06F 17/30 (2006.01); H04L 29/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 63/1491 (2013.01); H04L 63/145 (2013.01);
Abstract
A hardware-implemented method to support three desirable software properties: encapsulation, referential integrity/capabilities, and transactions. These properties in turn may be used to support software correctness, specifically the enforcement of invariants, and computer security, specifically protecting parts of programs from each other within a single process.