Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Method and system to prevent ultrasound data leaks in mobile devices
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Application No.: US15376737Application Date: 2016-12-13
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Publication No.: US10169604B2Publication Date: 2019-01-01
- Inventor: Vijay Kumar Ananthapur Bache , Vijay Ekambaram , Sarbajit K. Rakshit , Saravanan Sadacharam
- Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
- Applicant Address: US NY Armonk
- Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
- Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: US NY Armonk
- Agency: Hoffman Warnick LLC
- Agent Robert Shatto
- Main IPC: G06F21/00
- IPC: G06F21/00 ; G06F21/62 ; G10K11/175 ; H04L29/06 ; H04W12/02

Abstract:
A system, method and program product for implementing an ultrasound security system for a mobile device. A system is described that that integrates with an operating system on a mobile computing device, and includes: an app flow analysis system that generates and maintains runtime flow graphs for apps running on the mobile device and analyzes the runtime flow graphs to identify a set of apps having confidential data flow application programming interfaces (APIs) in their execution paths; a detector that further evaluates the set of apps having confidential data flow APIs to identify a subset of vulnerable apps also having ultrasound emitting APIs; and a runtime correlation system that flags a vulnerable app as a potential data leak when a call to an ultrasound emitting API is detected from the vulnerable app. Also contemplated is a countermeasure system that broadcasts a temporal sound blocking signal to neutralize an ultrasound transmission from the vulnerable app.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180167408A1 METHOD AND SYSTEM TO PREVENT ULTRASOUND DATA LEAKS IN MOBILE DEVICES Public/Granted day:2018-06-14
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