IMPEDING PROGRESS OF MALICIOUS GUEST SOFTWARE

Patent №

US 8,763,115

Granted

2014-06-24

Filed 2008

Owner

VMWARE, INC.

Lab

AI components

2

kr · hardware

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

12051516

One embodiment of the present invention is a method of operating a virtualization system, the method including: (a) instantiating a virtualization system on an underlying hardware machine, the virtualization system exposing a virtual machine in which multiple execution contexts of a guest execute; (b) monitoring the execution contexts from the virtualization system; and (c) selectively impeding computational progress of a particular one of the execution contexts.

Knowledge representationAI hardwareG06F 21/53G06F 9/45558G06F 2009/45587G06F 2009/45591

AI classification

Knowledge representation0.97
AI hardware0.96
Planning0.46
Speech0.05
Natural language0.00
Vision0.00
Evolutionary computation0.00
Machine learning0.00

Ownership

VMWARE, INC.

assignment · 208880869

Assignors

BUDKO, DMITRIY, CHEN, XIAOXIN, HOROVITZ, ODED, WALDSPURGER, CARL A.

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

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