Wireless Thin Client Isolation for Secure Peripheral Access
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Solution Overview
Problem
The integration of thin client devices into networked computer systems poses challenges in configuring, maintaining, and securing user data and applications, as well as ensuring security and safety, particularly due to the risk of malware introduction and unauthorized access.
Innovation Solution
The implementation of thin clients that wirelessly connect to peripherals and establish remote sessions with remote machines, isolating the devices from physical access while allowing secure operation through wireless interfaces, such as BLUETOOTH and Wi-Fi, and utilizing a thin client manager to manage both thin clients and remote machines within a networked environment.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If thin clients are made physically accessible to users, then ease of operation is improved, but security and safety deteriorate due to malware introduction and unauthorized access risks
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces an isolation environment as an intermediary layer between users and thin clients. Users interact with thin clients through this isolated environment, which prevents direct physical access while maintaining operational capability. The isolation environment acts as a mediator that allows user interactions (keyboard, mouse, display) while blocking harmful factors like malware introduction and unauthorized physical access to the thin client hardware.
2Object-affected harmful factors
If thin clients are isolated from peripherals, then security is improved, but device complexity increases due to wireless connection requirements
Solution Approach 1:
The patent employs wireless communication interfaces (such as Wi-Fi and Bluetooth) that serve multiple functions: they enable the isolated thin clients to connect to peripherals, transmit data, and maintain user interactions. This universal wireless connectivity approach simplifies the overall system architecture compared to implementing separate physical isolation mechanisms for each interaction type, while still achieving the security goal of preventing direct physical access.
Data Source
AI summary
In an aspect of the disclosure, a method, a computer-readable medium, and one or more apparatuses are provided. The apparatuses may be one or more thin clients. Each of the one or more thin clients wirelessly connects with at least one peripheral. Each of the one or more thin clients establishes a remote session with a remote machine. The one or more thin clients are placed in an environment that is isolated from the at least one peripheral of each of the thin clients.