US 11663032

Patent Overview — US11663032B2

Title: "Techniques for securing virtual machines by application use analysis"

Patent number: US11663032B2

Assignee: Orca Security Ltd (original and current assignee per the supplied text; assignee listing is expressly stated as possibly inaccurate).

Inventor: Avi Shua.

Key dates (as supplied):

• Priority date: 2019-01-28 (noted as an assumption, not a legal conclusion)
• Filing date: 2022-11-14 (application US18/055,150)
• Publication of US20230089313A1: 2023-03-23
• Grant/publication of US11663032B2: 2023-05-30
• Anticipated expiration: 2039-09-27
• Legal status: Active

Purpose and plain-language scope: The patent concerns securing virtual machines through analysis of application use. The title and classification data indicate a security-monitoring approach applied to virtualized computing environments, combining virtual-machine/hypervisor techniques (G06F9/455 family, including VM creation, memory management, isolation/security, and monitoring subclasses) with security arrangements such as intrusion detection and countermeasures (G06F21/55–21/56) and network security for detecting malicious traffic (H04L63/14 family). Backup/snapshot classification codes (G06F11/14 and G06F16/12 families) point to snapshot and virtual-disk concepts. Consistent with that, the listed prior-art keywords are: snapshot, virtual, virtual disk, applications, and cloud. The excerpt does not reproduce the claims, so the precise claimed scope cannot be stated here; the classifications and keywords only suggest the technical field.

Source: https://patents.google.com/patent/[US11663032](/patent/US11663032)/en

What the excerpt does not establish: It does not provide the claim text, the abstract, the specification, or the description of embodiments, so the specific steps, apparatus, and boundaries of the claimed subject matter are not established. It also does not establish inventorship beyond the single listed inventor, the accuracy of the assignee listing, the completeness of family members, or the substantive meaning of the classification codes. The excerpt notes litigation/PTAB entries and family information, but per the requested scope these were not analyzed. Nothing here should be read as a conclusion on validity, enforceability, or coverage.