Hypervisor-Based Network Experience Shifting
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Solution Overview
Problem
Users face challenges in accessing their personalized network settings and data when traveling to different locations, as existing solutions require complex steps or significant user input to establish virtual private networks.
Innovation Solution
Implementing network experience shifting using portable or external hypervisors that authenticate users and establish secure private connections, allowing access to their data, content, and software applications across different networks without user intervention.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If users manually establish virtual private networks to access personalized network settings when traveling, then network security is maintained, but user convenience and ease of operation deteriorate due to complex steps and significant user input required
Solution Approach 1:
The system enables self-service by allowing users to access their personalized network settings automatically when connecting to any network access device. The hypervisor retrieves and applies the user's network settings without requiring manual VPN configuration or user intervention, making the system serve itself rather than requiring complex user actions.
Solution Approach 2:
A hypervisor acts as an intermediary between the user device and the network access device. The hypervisor automatically establishes secure connections, retrieves personalized network settings from the home network, and applies them locally, eliminating the need for users to manually configure complex VPN connections while maintaining security.
2Extent of automation
If automated hypervisor-based connection establishment is implemented, then ease of operation improves, but system complexity and device requirements worsen
Solution Approach 1:
The hypervisor provides multi-functionality by combining multiple capabilities into a single component: it automatically establishes secure connections, authenticates users, retrieves personalized network settings, and applies configuration changes. This universal approach consolidates what would otherwise require separate complex systems into one integrated solution.
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs preliminary actions by pre-configuring and storing personalized network settings in the cloud before users need them. When users connect to any network access device, the hypervisor automatically retrieves these pre-prepared settings and applies them, eliminating the need for real-time complex configuration during connection establishment.
3Adaptability or versatility
If users access personalized network settings across different networks, then adaptability and network accessibility improve, but security risks and authentication complexity worsen
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements feedback mechanisms where the hypervisor continuously monitors connection status, authentication success, and network setting application. Based on this feedback, the system dynamically adjusts security measures, re-authenticates when necessary, and ensures that personalized settings are correctly applied, maintaining security reliability while enabling cross-network adaptability.
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AI summary
Novel tools and techniques are provided for implementing network experience shifting, and, in particular embodiments, using either a roaming or portable hypervisor associated with a user or a local hypervisor unassociated with the user. In some embodiments, a network node in a first network might receive, via a first network access device in a second network, a request from a user device to establish roaming network access, and might authenticate a user associated with the user device, the user being unassociated with the first network access device. Based in part on a determination that the user is authorized to access data, content, profiles, and/or software applications that are accessible via a second network access device, the network node might establish a secure private connection through a hypervisor communicatively coupled to the first network access device to provide the user with access to her data, content, profiles, and/or software applications.