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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:
May. 30, 2017

Filed:

Nov. 19, 2015
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventors:

Paul B. French, Cork, IE;

Jack Healy, Carrigaline, IE;

Niall J. Lucey, Carrigadrohid, IE;

Michael Truss, Cork, IE;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/00 (2006.01); H04L 29/06 (2006.01); H04W 12/06 (2009.01); G06F 17/30 (2006.01); G06F 21/57 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 63/20 (2013.01); G06F 17/30864 (2013.01); G06F 21/57 (2013.01); H04L 63/08 (2013.01); H04W 12/06 (2013.01);
Abstract

Embodiments of the present invention disclose a method, computer program product, and system for determining security factors associated with an operating environment for a computer through a wireless network. The computer identifies one or more local computers operating within range of wireless communications to the computer through a wireless network. The computer determines a current operating environment corresponding to the one or more identified local computers. The computer determines a current security value for the current operating environment corresponding to identities and security of the identified local computers. The computer identifies data corresponding to the current operating environment, the data corresponding to a current time period of the current operating environment. The computer determines security information corresponding to the current operating environment, wherein the security information includes a familiarity of the computer to the current operating environment, and a historical security of the computer in the current operating environment.


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