Patent ID: 9419993
Filing Date: 2016-08-16
CPC Classification: G06F,H04L

Claim Text:
1. A method to enhance security of targeted functions, the method comprising: determining a preferred security timing obscuration; automatically identifying a vulnerable targeted function within a customer application at a datacenter by employing a profiling type virtual instrumentation that measures an array of variables and collects information on processor usage, memory usage, cache data, memory bandwidth, and time-based data to build a flow table that allows for the automated identification of the targeted function; detecting initiation of execution of the targeted function at a processor; detuning a performance of one or more subunits of the processor associated with the targeted function based on the security timing obscuration by: determining whether the targeted function is still in operation; and in response to a determination that the targeted function has completed operation, returning the performance of the one or more subunits to a previous state before the detuning.