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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 23, 2016
Filed:
Sep. 09, 2014
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
James R. Coon, Rochester, MN (US);
Richard J. Gusefski, Endicott, NY (US);
Franz Hardt, Ehningen, DE;
Roger D. Krsnak, Rochester, MN (US);
Jakob C. Lang, Altdorf, DE;
Victor M. Lourenco, Vestal, NY (US);
Jan Schneider, Holzgerlingen, DE;
Garry J. Sullivan, Rochester, NY (US);
Brian D. Valentine, Endwell, NY (US);
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A system and method of managing a plurality of assets by associating a smart card with a compute subsystem by installing a database on the smart card and embedding an identifier of the compute subsystem. The system and method, in turn, may receive a request to access an asset of a compute subsystem; verify that a feature of the database is enabled in response to the request, the feature corresponding to the asset; and grant the access to access the asset upon the verifying of the feature.