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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Sep. 04, 2018

Filed:

Aug. 12, 2015
Applicant:

Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);

Inventors:

Lawrence Ralph Cleeton, Sammamish, WA (US);

Yevgeniy A. Samsonov, Redmond, WA (US);

Kinshumann Kinshumann, Redmond, WA (US);

Jingbo Wu, Medina, WA (US);

Kevin Michael Broas, Kirkland, WA (US);

Samartha Chandrashekar, Redmond, WA (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/57 (2013.01); G06F 21/60 (2013.01); G06F 9/4401 (2018.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/575 (2013.01); G06F 9/4406 (2013.01); G06F 21/60 (2013.01);
Abstract

A facility for booting a virtual machine hosted on a host is described. In one example facility, the facility boots the virtual machine in accordance with a policy instance associated with the virtual machine. As part of the booting, the facility extracts information needed to complete the booting from a virtual trusted platform module associated with the virtual machine, the extraction based upon the policy instance associated with the virtual machine. At the completion of the booting, the facility copies contents of a policy instance associated with the host into the policy instance associated with the virtual machine.


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