Patents by Inventor Gabriel Landau

Gabriel Landau has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • System and method for enabling a malware prevention module in response to a context switch within a certain process being executed by a processor
    Patent number: 10706180
    Abstract: A performance monitoring unit in a processor is programmed to issue an interrupt when a context switch occurs within an operating system if the currently executing thread belongs to a process that is subject to the malware prevention mechanism of the present invention. The interrupt enables a module that identifies mispredictions by the branch prediction unit of the processor and analyzes the address of the branch that was not predicted correctly. If the address of the branch is not contained on an existing whitelist of permissible branch addresses, and alert is generated and/or a protective action is taken. Such protective actions may include thread suspension, thread termination, process suspension, or process termination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2020
    Assignee: Endgame, Inc.
    Inventor: Gabriel Landau
  • System and Method for Enabling a Malware Prevention Module in Response to a Context Switch Within A Certain Process Being Executed by A Processor
    Publication number: 20190012486
    Abstract: A performance monitoring unit in a processor is programmed to issue an interrupt when a context switch occurs within an operating system if the currently executing thread belongs to a process that is subject to the malware prevention mechanism of the present invention. The interrupt enables a module that identifies mispredictions by the branch prediction unit of the processor and analyzes the address of the branch that was not predicted correctly. If the address of the branch is not contained on an existing whitelist of permissible branch addresses, and alert is generated and/or a protective action is taken. Such protective actions may include thread suspension, thread termination, process suspension, or process termination.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2017
    Publication date: January 10, 2019
    Inventor: Gabriel Landau