Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Secure administration of virtual machines
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Application No.: US14050488Application Date: 2013-10-10
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Publication No.: US09258290B2Publication Date: 2016-02-09
- Inventor: Michael Hingston McLaughlin Bursell
- Applicant: Citrix Systems, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US FL Fort Lauderdale
- Assignee: Citrix Systems, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Citrix Systems, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US FL Fort Lauderdale
- Agency: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.
- Main IPC: H04L29/06
- IPC: H04L29/06 ; G06F21/44 ; G06F21/62

Abstract:
Methods and systems for performing secure administration of virtual domain resource allocation are provided herein. A cloud service provider (CSP) may provide instances of virtual machines to one or more contracting user entities. The cloud service provider may store an authorization database identifying one or more resources (e.g., storage, CPU, etc.) that each of the different contracting user entities is authorized to use on a virtual machine server device. The CSP may subsequently receive a request from an unverified entity to instantiate a virtual machine with access to one or more resources. The request may include security information. The CSP validates the request by verifying the unverified entity using the first security information (e.g., checking a PKI certificate, requiring a login/password, etc.) and, when the request is validated, provides access to the verified entity to a subset of the requested one or more resources based on the authorization database.
Public/Granted literature
- US20140040995A1 Secure Administration of Virtual Machines Public/Granted day:2014-02-06
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