Invention Grant
- Patent Title: User trusted device for detecting a virtualized environment
- Patent Title (中): 用户信任的设备,用于检测虚拟化环境
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Application No.: US14651540Application Date: 2013-11-26
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Publication No.: US09589128B2Publication Date: 2017-03-07
- Inventor: Michael Baentsch , Thomas Gschwind , Andreas Schade
- 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
- Agent Peter J. Edwards
- Priority: GB1222583.5 20121214
- International Application: PCT/IB2013/060408 WO 20131126
- International Announcement: WO2014/091343 WO 20140619
- Main IPC: G06F21/00
- IPC: G06F21/00 ; G06F21/44 ; G06F9/44 ; G06F21/57 ; G06F21/50 ; G06F21/51 ; G06F21/56 ; G06F9/455

Abstract:
The present invention is notably directed to a method for enabling a computer (101) to boot from a user trusted device (10), the user trusted device (10) comprising a connection interface (12) enabling connection (S2) with said computer (101), the method comprising: enabling (S3) said computer (101) to start booting from the user trusted device (10) upon connection (S2) of the user trusted device with said computer (101) via said connection interface (12); instructing a processor (105) of the computer (101) to execute (S7) virtualization sensitive code and issue (S8) completion data upon completion of execution, which completion data depends on the virtualization sensitive code and its execution by the processor (105); determining (S9-S14), based on said completion data, whether the execution was not performed in a virtualized environment; and enabling (S15) said computer (101) to complete booting from the user trusted device (10) upon determining that the execution was not performed in a virtualized environment. The invention is further directed to a user trusted device enabling this method and to related systems.
Public/Granted literature
- US20150317472A1 USER TRUSTED DEVICE FOR DETECTING A VIRTUALIZED ENVIRONMENT Public/Granted day:2015-11-05
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