Patents by Inventor William R. Speirs, II

William R. Speirs, II 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).

  • Methods, systems and computer readable medium for detecting memory overflow conditions
    Patent number: 7856538
    Abstract: Representative is a computer-implemented method of detecting a buffer overflow condition. In accordance with the method, a destination address for a computer process' desired right operation is received and a determination is made as to whether the destination address is within an illegitimate writable memory segment within the process' virtual address space (VAS). If so, the process is preferably alerted of the potential buffer overflow condition. A determination may also be made as to whether the destination address is legitimate, in which case the process may be informed of the memory segment which corresponds to the destination address.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2010
    Assignee: Systex, Inc.
    Inventors: William R. Speirs, II, Eric B. Cole