Information system
AssigneeHewlett-Packard Company
InventorsGraeme John Proudler, Boris Balacheff
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Abstract
A trusted service which publishes information describing security attributes of computing platforms in a defined physical area, for use by a visitor to a building, for example, who is unfamiliar with the computing platforms available for use therein. In a preferred embodiment, the system provides only details and/or a list of public keys of genuine trusted computing platforms within the area. In another embodiment of the invention, the information system comprises a trusted computing platform for providing selected information to a user's portable computing apparatus.
Claims10
An information system comprising an information access point relating to at least one pre-determined geographical area, said information access point including apparatus for retrieving information relating to computing platforms located within said pre-determined geographical area, together with security attributes of said computing platforms, said information system being arranged to provide said information to a user upon request.
An information system comprising a computing platform having a trusted component, apparatus for communicating with a user's portable computing apparatus, said information system being arranged to geographically retrieve information relating to a pre-determined area and to communicate said information to said user's portable computing apparatus upon request.
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