US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Nov. 25 for "Dynamic control of eBPF program execution in an operating system kernel" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,520, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Dynamic control of eBPF program execution in an operating system kernel" was invented by Xiaojing Liu (Beijing), Qi Feng Huo (Beijing), Qi Li (Beijing), Yong Quan Tian (Beijing) and Xiao Ling Chen (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Managing execution of eBPF program capabilities is provided. A comparison of a currently in use helper-id list with an allowable helper-id list of an eBPF program is performed. It is determined whether a set of unallowable helper-ids exists that is included in the currently in use helper-id list but not in t...