The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document.
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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 07, 2009
Filed:
Mar. 29, 2001
James F. Riordan, Adliswil, CH;
Dominique Alessandri, Zurich, CH;
James F. Riordan, Adliswil, CH;
Dominique Alessandri, Zurich, CH;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
The invention provides a form of reacting on security or vulnerability information relevant for a system comprising computer software and/or hardware or electronics, wherein a service provider with a first subsystem () is providing activation tokens to be received by a customer with a second subsystem (). The activation tokens including activation information and naming of system characteristics in machine readable and filterable manner. The second subsystem () comprises receiving means () for controlling the receiving of the activation tokens, checking means () for automatically determining whether the activation information is relevant for the second subsystem () by checking whether the second subsystem has characteristics corresponding to the naming of an activation token, and transforming means () for transforming relevant activation information into at least one activation measure for the second subsystem (). The activation measures will reduce the vulnerability of the second subsystem.