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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.

Patent No.:

US 9507615 B1

PDFFull Text
Date of Patent:
Nov. 29, 2016

Filed:

Dec. 09, 2013

Methods and systems for allocating a usb device to a trusted virtual machine or a non-trusted virtual machine

Applicant:

Citrix Systems, Inc., Fort Lauderdale, FL (US);

Inventors:

James McKenzie, Cambridge, GB;

Jean Guyader, Cambridge, GB;

Assignee:

Citrix Systems, Inc., Fort Lauderdale, FL (US);

Attorneys:

Foley & Lardner LLP

John D. Lanza

Primary Examiner:

Eleni Shiferaw

Assistant Examiner:

Gregory M Elmore

Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 29/06 (2006.01); G06F 9/455 (2006.01); G06F 21/83 (2013.01); G06F 21/31 (2013.01); G06F 21/62 (2013.01); G06F 21/53 (2013.01); G06F 21/55 (2013.01); G06F 21/57 (2013.01); G06F 21/79 (2013.01); G06F 21/85 (2013.01); G06F 21/84 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/45533 (2013.01); G06F 21/31 (2013.01); G06F 21/53 (2013.01); G06F 21/554 (2013.01); G06F 21/556 (2013.01); G06F 21/57 (2013.01); G06F 21/629 (2013.01); G06F 21/79 (2013.01); G06F 21/83 (2013.01); G06F 21/84 (2013.01); G06F 21/85 (2013.01); H04L 63/20 (2013.01); G06F 9/45558 (2013.01); G06F 2009/45575 (2013.01); G06F 2009/45579 (2013.01); G06F 2009/45587 (2013.01); G06F 2221/2101 (2013.01); G06F 2221/2107 (2013.01); G06F 2221/2115 (2013.01); G06F 2221/2143 (2013.01); G06F 2221/2147 (2013.01); G06F 2221/2149 (2013.01);
Abstract

The methods and systems described herein provide for allocating a universal serial bus (USB) device to one of a trusted virtual machine and a non-trusted virtual machine. A control program receives data indicating a USB port on the computing machine received a USB device and identifies at least one attribute of the USB device. The control program selects, based on application of a policy to the identified at least one device attribute, one of a trusted virtual machine and a non-trusted virtual machine executing. The control program grants, to the virtual machine selected by the control program, access to the USB device.

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