Methods, systems and media for software self-healing

US7962798B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York · US

Inventors

• Michael E. Locasto · Mina, US
• Angelos D. Keromytis · New York, US
• Salvatore J. Stolfo · Ridgewood, US
• Angelos Stavrou · Springfield, US
• Gabriela Cretu · New York, US
• Stylianos Sidiroglou · New York, US
• Jason Nieh · New York, US
• Oren Laadan · New York, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Apr 17, 2007
• Grant date: Jun 14, 2011
• Expiry date: Feb 21, 2030

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06F11/1438
• WIPO field: Computer technology
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

Methods, systems, and media for enabling a software application to recover from a fault condition, and for protecting a software application from a fault condition, are provided. In some embodiments, methods include detecting a fault condition during execution of the software application, restoring execution of the software application to a previous point of execution, the previous point of execution occurring during execution of a first subroutine in the software application, and forcing the first subroutine to forego further execution and return to a caller of the first subroutine.