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US 2017/0374077 A1Published application
Virtual machine access control
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsEli M. Dow, Douglas E. Rohde
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Abstract
A system is provided and includes a broadcasting device configured to emit a beacon signal over a predefined range and a mobile computing device. The mobile computing device is configured to run a host operating system at any location. The mobile computing device is further configured to run a virtual machine associated with the beacon signal within the host operating system but only when the computing device is in range of the beacon signal of a predefined strength.
Claims6
A method of mobile computing device operation, comprising:
- receiving a beacon signal at a computing device only upon the computing device entering within a beacon signal range;
- determining that a virtual machine associated with the beacon signal exists in the computing device;
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- running an instance of the virtual machine on the computing device using a component of the beacon signal while the computing device remains within the range of the beacon signal of a predefined strength.
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