Patent 7568188 was granted and assigned to Microsoft on July, 2009 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A method for testing a software shim is provided, in which a skeleton executable file is altered so that it mimics the executable file for which the shim is intended. The alterations made to the skeleton executable file may include one or more of the following: changing the file name, padding the file and changing the calculated checksum of the file.