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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.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 20, 2018
Filed:
Sep. 28, 2015
Applicant:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Inventors:
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/57 (2013.01); G06F 9/455 (2018.01); G06F 21/52 (2013.01); G06F 11/14 (2006.01); G06F 9/44 (2018.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/575 (2013.01); G06F 9/45533 (2013.01); G06F 9/45558 (2013.01); G06F 11/1484 (2013.01); G06F 21/52 (2013.01); G06F 9/4401 (2013.01); G06F 2009/45575 (2013.01); G06F 2009/45591 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method, system and program product for performing a trusted boot of a virtual machine comprises the steps of executing, in turn, a series of components of the trusted boot, performing a function on each component prior to the execution of the respective component, storing the output of the functions in a virtual trusted platform module, detecting that the virtual trusted platform module has not responded to the storing of the output of a function in the virtual trusted platform module, and generating a request that the virtual trusted platform module be disabled.