Patents by Inventor Ginger Myles

Ginger Myles 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, method, and service for detecting improper manipulation of an application
    Patent number: 8056138
    Abstract: A piracy protection system incorporates tamper detection capabilities into a protected copy of an application by disassembling a statically linked binary of the application, modifying some of the instructions in the application, and then rewriting all of the modified and unmodified instructions to a new executable file, a protected copy. The piracy protection system comprises an offline tamper detection technique in which the software itself detects the tampering and causes the program to fail, therefore protecting itself from malicious attacks. The system further comprises a dynamic software-watermarking process that incorporates code obfuscation to prevent reverse engineering.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2011
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Hongxia Jin, Ginger Myles
  • System, method, and service for detecting improper manipulation of an application
    Publication number: 20060195906
    Abstract: A piracy protection system incorporates tamper detection capabilities into a protected copy of an application by disassembling a statically linked binary of the application, modifying some of the instructions in the application, and then rewriting all of the modified and unmodified instructions to a new executable file, a protected copy. The piracy protection system comprises an offline tamper detection technique in which the software itself detects the tampering and causes the program to fail, therefore protecting itself from malicious attacks. The system further comprises a dynamic software-watermarking process that incorporates code obfuscation to prevent reverse engineering.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2005
    Publication date: August 31, 2006
    Inventors: Hongxia Jin, Ginger Myles