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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 01, 2013
Filed:
May. 29, 2008
Steven A. Bade, Georgetown, TX (US);
Stefan Berger, New York, NY (US);
Kenneth Alan Goldman, Norwalk, CT (US);
Ronald Perez, Mount Kisco, NY (US);
Reiner Sailer, Scarsdale, NY (US);
Leendert Peter Van Doorn, Valhalla, NY (US);
Steven A. Bade, Georgetown, TX (US);
Stefan Berger, New York, NY (US);
Kenneth Alan Goldman, Norwalk, CT (US);
Ronald Perez, Mount Kisco, NY (US);
Reiner Sailer, Scarsdale, NY (US);
Leendert Peter Van Doorn, Valhalla, NY (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A trusted platform module is presented that is capable of creating, dynamically, multiple virtual trusted platform modules in a hierarchical organization. A trusted platform module domain is created. The trusted platform module creates virtual trusted platform modules, as needed, in the trusted platform module domain. The virtual trusted platform modules can inherit the permissions of a parent trusted platform module to have the ability to create virtual trusted platform modules themselves. Each virtual trusted platform module is associated with a specific partition. Each partition is associated with an individual operating system. The hierarchy of created operating systems and their privilege of spawning new operating systems is reflected in the hierarchy of trusted platform modules and the privileges each of the trusted platform modules has.