Patents by Inventor Peter S. VanLund

Peter S. VanLund 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).

  • Supervising execution of untrusted code
    Patent number: 9165136
    Abstract: Disclosed are various embodiments for supervising execution of untrusted code. Untrusted code that is to be executed in a computing device is obtained. A virtual machine in the computing device is configured to execute the untrusted code, with one or more resource access restrictions being placed on the untrusted code. Periodic updates are obtained from the virtual machine relating to one or more resources of the computing device that are consumed by the virtual machine. Execution of the untrusted code in the virtual machine is interrupted in response to a value indicated by one or more of the periodic updates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2015
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Peter S. VanLund