US Patent Issued to Google on Sept. 22 for "Indexing software packages and detecting malicious or potentially harmful code using API-call n-grams" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,743,506, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Indexing software packages and detecting malicious or potentially harmful code using API-call n-grams" was invented by Alexandre Boulgakov (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This document describes systems and techniques for indexing binaries of a software package and detecting potentially harmful code within the software package using API-call n-grams. A computing device generates API-call graphs from binaries. The computing device computes n-grams from the API-call graphs and adds them to an inverted index, which maps the n-grams to a ...