Location signatures
AssigneeHewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
InventorsChristopher Newton, Patrick Goldsack, Chris I Dalton
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Abstract
In one implementation, a security management system accesses a trusted location signature and a candidate location signature to determine that the candidate location signature is correlated with the trusted location signature, and establishes a trusted state of an entity in response to determining that the candidate location signature is correlated with the trusted location signature.
Claims16
A processor-readable medium including code representing instructions that when executed at a processor cause the processor to:
- access a trusted location signature;
- access a candidate location signature;
- determine that the candidate location signature is correlated with the trusted location signature;
- and
- establish a trusted state of an entity in response to determining that the candidate location signature is correlated with the trusted location signature.
A security management system, comprising:
- a coordination module to temporally coordinate definition of trusted location signatures and candidate location signatures;
- a correlation module to determine whether a candidate location signature from the candidate location signatures is correlated with a trusted location signature from the trusted location signatures;
- and
- a security module to establish a trusted state of an entity if a first candidate location signature from the candidate location signatures is correlated with a first trusted location signature from the trusted location signatures and to revoke the trusted state of the entity if a second candidate location signature from the candidate location signatures is not correlated with a second trusted location signature from the trusted location signatures.
A security management method, comprising:
- receiving trusted location signatures from a first device via a communications link;
- receiving candidate location signatures from a second device via the communications link;
- establishing a trusted state of an entity if a first candidate location signature from the candidate location signatures is correlated with a first trusted location signature from the trusted location signatures;
- and
- revoking the trusted state of the entity if a second candidate location signature from the candidate location signatures is not correlated with a second trusted location signature from the trusted location signatures.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.