As per patent office journal dated 27/08/2021, patent number 375066 has been granted to Quikproto Research Labs Private Limited which is titled A SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROTECTION AGAINST MALWARE BY IMPLEMENTATION OF HARDWARE ENFORCED SECURITY.
The primary independent claim of this patent states a system and method for protecting an operating system of a computing device against malware threat by implementation of hardware-enforced security. The computing device includes one or more processors coupled with a memory. Further, the processors) comprise a kernel security module and a security hypervisor module executed on a higher privilege mode than the kernel security module. The hardware enforced security is implemented such that security features/functions of the operating system are optimally split between the kernel security module and security hypervisor module, such that while protection is highly enhanced due to security functioning at kernel and hypervisor level, also a frequent need for trap call to security hypervisor module is avoided thereby reducing the incurred costs in a otherwise pure hypervisor based solution.
During the patent prosecution, the patent examiner objected to this patent under section 3(k) of the Indian Patents Act. The patent applicant responded to this objection by stating that if the present invention provides a technical solution to a technical problem and has a technical effect then the same cannot be considered to fall under the category of algorithm or computer program per se. In light of such observation, the technical problem solved by the present invention is formulated as how to provide a system which balances the security and performance needs by dynamically offloading the security features between the hypervisor and kernel module. Therefore, the claims of the present invention do not fall within the scope of Section 3(k) of the Act.
This patent falls under the category of Computer Science. Overall, this patent covers a system and method for protecting an operating system of a computing device against malware threat by implementation of hardware enforced security. The computing device includes one or more processors coupled with a memory. Further, the processors) comprise a kernel security module and a security hypervisor module executed on a higher privilege mode than the kernel security module. The hardware enforced security is implemented such that security features/functions of the operating system are optimally split between the kernel security module and security hypervisor module, such that while protection is highly enhanced due to security functioning at kernel and hypervisor level, also a frequent need for trap call to security hypervisor module is avoided thereby reducing the incurred costs in a otherwise pure hypervisor based solution.
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