Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Methods, systems, articles of manufacture and apparatus to verify application permission safety
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Application No.: US17240610Application Date: 2021-04-26
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Publication No.: US12001558B2Publication Date: 2024-06-04
- Inventor: Dattatraya Kulkarni , Himanshu Srivastava , Raj Vardhan , Raja Sinha , Srikanth Nalluri , Tirumaleswar Reddy Konda
- Applicant: McAfee, LLC
- Applicant Address: US CA San Jose
- Assignee: MCAFEE, LLC
- Current Assignee: MCAFEE, LLC
- Current Assignee Address: US CA San Jose
- Agency: HANLEY, FLIGHT & ZIMMERMAN, LLC
- Main IPC: G06F21/00
- IPC: G06F21/00 ; G06F21/57

Abstract:
Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed to verify application permission safety. An example apparatus to identify unsafe permissions associated with a candidate app disclosed herein includes an app classifier interface to retrieve a cluster of apps associated with the candidate app, the candidate app including a requested permission set (RPS), a white knight (WK) identifier to identify a set of WK apps within the cluster, the set of WK apps associated with a designation of trust, a safe permission set (SPS) evaluator to generate an SPS list associated with the set of WK apps within the cluster, and an RPS identifier to determine whether permissions of the RPS are listed in the SPS list, the SPS evaluator further to designate first respective ones of the permissions of the RPS as safe when the first respective ones of the permissions are listed in the SPS list, and designate second respective ones of the permissions of the RPS as unsafe when the second respective ones of the permissions are absent from the SPS list.
Public/Granted literature
- US20210312050A1 METHODS, SYSTEMS, ARTICLES OF MANUFACTURE AND APPARATUS TO VERIFY APPLICATION PERMISSION SAFETY Public/Granted day:2021-10-07
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