Configuring software agent security remotely

• US 20080072032A1
• Filed: 09/19/2006
• Published: 03/20/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 09/19/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: MEC Management, LLC (Three Affiliated Tribes of the Fort Berthold Reservation, North Dakota)
• Original Assignee: Searete LLC (Intellectual Ventures LLC)
• Inventors: Cohen, Alexander J., Mangione-Smith, William Henry, Lord, Robert W., Jung, Edward K.Y., Levien, Royce A.
• Application Number:
  US11/524,077
• Publication Number:
  US 20080072032A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 713/100
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/102 Entity profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/34 involving the movement of software or configuration parameters network booting or remote initial program loading [RIPL] G06F9/4416

Abstract

A device, method, computer program product, and network subsystem are described for receiving information from a remote agent locally and responding to the locally received information from the remote agent by deciding whether to signal a change of a security configuration of the remote agent.

Claims

1-48. -48. (canceled)

49. A network subsystem comprising:

circuitry for receiving information from a remote agent locally; and

circuitry for responding to the information from the remote agent by deciding whether to signal a change of a security configuration of the remote agent.

50. The network subsystem of claim 49 in which the circuitry for receiving information from a remote agent locally comprises:

circuitry for receiving one or more processing environment attributes as the information from the remote agent.

51. The network subsystem of claim 49 in which the circuitry for receiving information from a remote agent locally comprises:

circuitry for receiving agent status information as the information from the remote agent.

52. The network subsystem of claim 49 in which the circuitry for receiving information from a remote agent locally comprises:

circuitry for receiving resource status information as the information from the remote agent.

53. The network subsystem of claim 49 in which the circuitry for receiving information from a remote agent locally comprises:

circuitry for receiving one or more service handles as the information from the remote agent.

54. The network subsystem of claim 49 in which the circuitry for receiving information from a remote agent locally comprises:

circuitry for applying one or more criteria to a timing attribute of the information from the remote agent.

55. The network subsystem of claim 49 in which the circuitry for responding to the information from the remote agent by deciding whether to signal a change of a security configuration of the remote agent comprises:

circuitry for deciding to signal the change of the security configuration of the remote agent responsive to local user input.

56. The network subsystem of claim 49 in which the circuitry for responding to the information from the remote agent by deciding whether to signal a change of a security configuration of the remote agent comprises:

circuitry for causing the change of the security configuration of the remote agent responsive to the information from the remote agent.

57. The network subsystem of claim 49 in which the circuitry for responding to the information from the remote agent by deciding whether to signal a change of a security configuration of the remote agent comprises:

circuitry for storing an indication of the change of the security configuration of the remote agent responsive to the information from the remote agent.

58. The network subsystem of claim 49 in which the circuitry for receiving information from a remote agent locally comprises:

circuitry for requesting data from the remote agent.

59. The network subsystem of claim 49 in which the circuitry for receiving information from a remote agent locally comprises:

circuitry for receiving status information as the information from the remote agent.

60. The network subsystem of claim 49 in which the circuitry for receiving information from a remote agent locally comprises:

circuitry for receiving the information from the remote agent at least partly through a wireless medium.

62. The network subsystem of claim 49 further comprising:

circuitry for deciding whether to authorize a transaction responsive to the information from the remote agent.

63. The network subsystem of claim 49 further comprising:

circuitry for receiving information from one or more other agents.

64. The network subsystem of claim 49 further comprising:

circuitry for deciding whether to signal a change of a local security configuration responsive to the information from the remote agent.

65. The network subsystem of claim 49 further comprising:

circuitry for transmitting a response to the information from the remote agent.

66. The network subsystem of claim 49 in which the circuitry for receiving information from a remote agent locally comprises:

circuitry for receiving a location history via the remote agent as the information.

67. The network subsystem of claim 49 in which the circuitry for receiving information from a remote agent locally comprises:

circuitry for receiving a cost-indicative value as the information.

68. The network subsystem of claim 49 in which the circuitry for receiving information from a remote agent locally comprises:

circuitry for receiving at least an indication of a source data object as the information.

69. The network subsystem of claim 49 in which the circuitry for responding to the information from the remote agent by deciding whether to signal a change of a security configuration of the remote agent comprises:

circuitry for signaling a change of an integrity policy as the change of the security configuration of the remote agent.

70. The network subsystem of claim 49 in which the circuitry for responding to the information from the remote agent by deciding whether to signal a change of a security configuration of the remote agent comprises:

circuitry for deciding to signal at least a partial security increase as the change of the security configuration of the remote agent.

72. The network subsystem of claim 49 further comprising:

circuitry for causing a processing core security configuration change including more than the change of the security configuration of the remote agent.

73. The network subsystem of claim 49 further comprising:

one or more antennas operably coupled with the circuitry for responding to the information from the remote agent by deciding whether to signal a change of a security configuration of the remote agent.

74. The network subsystem of claim 49 further comprising:

one or more data storage devices operably coupled with the circuitry for responding to the information from the remote agent by deciding whether to signal a change of a security configuration of the remote agent.

75. The network subsystem of claim 49 further comprising:

one or more user interfaces operably coupled with the circuitry for responding to the information from the remote agent by deciding whether to signal a change of a security configuration of the remote agent.

76. The network subsystem of claim 49 further comprising:

one or more processor cores operably coupled with the circuitry for responding to the information from the remote agent by deciding whether to signal a change of a security configuration of the remote agent.

77. The network subsystem of claim 49 further comprising:

one or more power supplies operably coupled with the circuitry for responding to the information from the remote agent by deciding whether to signal a change of a security configuration of the remote agent.

61. (canceled)

71. (canceled)

78. A computer program product comprising:

a signal-bearing medium bearing at least one of

one or more instructions for receiving information from a remote agent locally; and

one or more instructions for responding to the information from the remote agent by deciding whether to signal a change of a security configuration of the remote agent.

79-101. -101. (canceled)

102. A network subsystem comprising:

a receiving module for receiving information from a remote agent locally; and

a decision module for responding to the information from the remote agent by deciding

whether to signal a change of a security configuration of the remote agent.