Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Geolocation-based activation and de-activation of hardware and software functionalities in the cloud
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Application No.: US16514286Application Date: 2019-07-17
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Publication No.: US11178237B2Publication Date: 2021-11-16
- Inventor: Ashish Kundu , Dimitrios Pendarakis
- 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: Law Office of Jim Boice
- Main IPC: H04L29/08
- IPC: H04L29/08 ; G06F9/50 ; G06F16/215 ; G06F16/9537 ; H04L12/911 ; H04W4/021 ; H04W28/02

Abstract:
A method alters a computer resource while in a particular geolocation. One or more processors detect that a geolocation of a computer resource has changed from an initial geolocation to a new geolocation, where the computer resource is a virtual machine (VM). In response to detecting that the geolocation of the VM has changed from the initial geolocation to the new geolocation, the processor(s) reduce a functionality of the VM by reducing a quantity of processors and storage space available to the VM at the new geolocation as compared to the initial geolocation.
Public/Granted literature
- US20190342404A1 GEOLOCATION-BASED ACTIVATION AND DE-ACTIVATION OF HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE FUNCTIONALITIES IN THE CLOUD Public/Granted day:2019-11-07
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