Patents by Inventor Stephen William Boyd

Stephen William Boyd 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).

  • Resource Management Unit for Capturing Operating System Configuration States and Managing Malware
    Publication number: 20210192046
    Abstract: This disclosure describes methods, devices, systems, and procedures in a computing system for capturing a configuration state of an operating system executing on a central processing unit (CPU), and offloading tasks for managing malware and vulnerable software, based on the configuration state, to a resource management unit, such as a system-on-chip (SoC). The resource management unit identifies a status of a process as malware or vulnerable software, based on its fingerprint, and acts to protect the computing system from unwanted effects.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2020
    Publication date: June 24, 2021
    Applicant: Google LLC
    Inventors: Alex Levin, Stephen William Boyd