HARDWARE PROTECTION

Patent №

US 7,631,360

Granted

2009-12-08

Filed 2005

Owner

MICROSOFT CORPORATION

AI components

1

kr

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

11061411

Tampering with pieces of software is inhibited. Hardware protection prevents hackers from forcing various pieces of software from running on unauthorized pieces of hardware. The obfuscation of a software image so as to becloud the comprehension of hackers in reverse engineering pieces of software comprising the software image is provided. Image verification ensures the originality of the pieces of software to be installed.

Knowledge representationG06F 21/121G06F 8/61G06F 21/14G06F 21/50G06F 21/55G06F 21/57G06F 21/64H04L 9/0836+4 more

AI classification

Knowledge representation0.88
Evolutionary computation0.15
AI hardware0.09
Planning0.07
Natural language0.00
Speech0.00
Vision0.00
Machine learning0.00

Ownership

MICROSOFT CORPORATION

assignment · 159240164

Assignors

WU, WEI, FORTUNE, ERIK, BENNETT, JULIE D., CHU, FRANK NIAN-TZU, EL-GAMMAL, MOHAMMED, EARNSHAW, SIMON D.

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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