Patent 9336114 was granted and assigned to Samsung on May, 2016 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
An apparatus and method for detecting an error occurring when an application program is executed in a computer environment is provided. The error detection apparatus may measure a deterministic progress index (DPI) and a program counter (PC) value when an instruction is executed, set, as a verification set, a DPI and a PC value measured when the instruction is executed without causing an error, set, as a measurement set, the DPI and the PC value measured when an instruction is executed, and detect a runtime error of the instruction by comparing the measurement set to the verification set.