Patents by Inventor Sunita Verma

Sunita Verma 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).

  • Detecting heap and stack execution in the operating system using regions
    Patent number: 7484239
    Abstract: A call to a critical operating system function is stalled. The pregion and pregion type associated with the location of a call module originating the call is determined. In one embodiment, when the pregion type is either a stack or a heap pregion type, protective action is taken, such as terminating the call, otherwise the call is released. In another embodiment, when the pregion type is either a text or shared memory pregion type, the call is released, otherwise protective action is taken.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2009
    Assignee: Symantec Corporation
    Inventors: Jonathan Tester, Sunita Verma