In one embodiment, the present invention includes a method for associating a first identifier with a first pointer that points to a first object in a memory. The first identifier may correspond to a value in a segment of a map array for a location of the first object in the memory. Other embodiments...http://www.google.fr/patents/US7761676?utm_source=gb-gplus-shareBrevet US7761676 - Protecting memory by containing pointer accesses