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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 01, 2017
Filed:
Jan. 04, 2016
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Mark V. Chitti, Lexington, KY (US);
Kirby G. Dahman, Seattle, WA (US);
Ronda L. McCain, Longmont, CO (US);
Kurt A. Rybczyk, Waterbury, CT (US);
Keith C. Williams, Fenton, MO (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A computer-implemented method, system, and/or computer program product controls access to an appliance. A host system receives, from a client computer, appliance-specific user data that includes a user password, a user-created name of an appliance, a user identifier, and a network address of the client computer, and then concatenates the appliance-specific user data with a host name of the host system to create and store an Aggregate Identity Instance (AII) in the host system. The host system receives, from the client computer, a request to access the appliance, and determines whether appliance-specific user data sent with the request is in the AII in the host system. If so, then the host system matches the user-created name of the appliance to an address of the appliance; establishes a session between the client computer and the appliance; and uses the AII to encrypt and decrypt data.