Combining a mobile device and computer to create a secure personalized environment

Abstract

A mobile device, such as a mobile phone, smart phone, personal music player, handheld game device, and the like, when operatively combined with a PC, creates a secure and personalized computing platform through configuration of the mobile device's CPU (central processing unit) and OS (operating system) to function as an immutable trusted core. The trusted core in the mobile device verifies the integrity of the PC including, for example, that its drivers, applications, and other software are trusted and unmodified, and thus safe to use without presenting a threat to the integrity of the combined computing platform. The mobile device can further optionally store and transport the user's personalization data-including, for example, the user's desktop, applications, data, certificates, settings, and preferences-which can be accessed by the PC when the devices are combined to thus create a personalized computing environment.

Description

Background technique [0001] Computing resources, such as personal computers ("PCs"), in home and office environments are generally protected against attacks and unauthorized access by various effective security techniques and products. However, today's computer users are often traveling in an environment where they often encounter publicly accessible computers such as those located in kiosks, Internet cafés, or hotel lobbies. Providing security for these publicly accessible computers is often a significant challenge. Their users risk data loss, downtime, and loss of labor that compromises the integrity of the computer. [0002] Corporate users often have to forego the benefits they normally enjoy in their secure corporate environment when traveling to use public computing resources. Currently, publicly accessible computers cannot be managed as normal corporate assets, which can cause application incompatibility issues, unavailability of required resources, loss of data integ...

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Problems solved by technology

Currently, publicly accessible computers cannot be managed as normal corporate assets, which can cause application incompatibility issues, unavailability of required resources, loss of data integrity, and vulnerability to malware for traveling corporate users s consequence

The corporate network itself becomes vulnerable if a corporate user brings back to the office eg bad software (i.e. malware) on a storage medium, or if a user emails a compromised or damaged file from a public computer to a corporate server and risk to safety

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