Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Global attestation procedure
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Application No.: US16025124Application Date: 2018-07-02
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Publication No.: US10218713B2Publication Date: 2019-02-26
- Inventor: Saritha Arunkumar , Diyanesh B. Chinnakkonda Vidyapoornachary , Saravanan Sethuraman
- Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
- Applicant Address: US NY Armonk
- Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
- Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: US NY Armonk
- Agency: Heslin Rothenberg Farley & Mesiti P.C.
- Agent Steven Chiu
- Main IPC: H04L29/06
- IPC: H04L29/06 ; G06F17/30

Abstract:
A method, computer program product, and system for authenticating a computing device by geographic attestation includes a processor utilizing executing an authentication application utilizing location services executing on the computing device to obtain location data from the location services. The processor obtains the location data and creates and encodes a data structure in a secured area of a memory; the data structure is only accessible to the authentication application. The processor transmits to an authentication server, an authentication request that includes the encoded location data, requesting access to secure content. The processor obtains a request to query identifiers proximate to the computing device for additional location information and queries the identifiers and transmits this additional location information to the authentication server. The processor receives a notification and based on obtaining the notification, erases the secured area and turns off the location services on the computing device.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180324190A1 GLOBAL ATTESTATION PROCEDURE Public/Granted day:2018-11-08
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