Resource authorizations dependent on emulation environment isolation policies

• US 20080235756A1
• Filed: 06/28/2007
• Published: 09/25/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 03/22/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• 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., Lord, Robert W., Jung, Edward K.Y., Levien, Royce A., Malamud, Mark A., Rinaldo, John D., Wood, Lowell L.
• Granted Patent: US 8,438,609 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 726/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/53 by executing in a restricted environment, e.g. sandbox or secure virtual machine
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/606 by securing the transmission between two devices or processes
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/45533 Hypervisors; Virtual machine monitors

Abstract

A system, method, computer program product, and carrier are described for obtaining a resource authorization dependent upon apparent compliance with a policy of causing an emulation environment to isolate a first software object type from a second software object type; and signaling a decision whether to comply with the policy of causing the emulation environment to isolate the first software object type from the second software object type.

Claims

1. An apparatus comprising:

one or more physical media configured to bear a device-detectable implementation of a method including at least

obtaining a resource authorization dependent upon apparent compliance with a policy of causing an emulation environment to isolate a first software object type from a second software object type; and

signaling a decision whether to comply with the policy of causing the emulation environment to isolate the first software object type from the second software object type.

2. The apparatus of claim 1 in which the one or more physical media comprise:

an antenna-containing semiconductor chip.

5. The apparatus of claim 1 in which a portion of the one or more physical media comprises:

one or more of an image projection module or a touch screen.

20. The apparatus of claim 1 further comprising at least one of a satellite dish or other signal-reflective element, a transducer, an antenna, or a receiver operated to receive the device-detectable implementation.

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21. An apparatus comprising:

one or more physical media bearing a device-detectable output indicating an occurrence of

obtaining a resource authorization dependent upon apparent compliance with a policy of causing an emulation environment to isolate a first software object type from a second software object type; and

signaling a decision whether to comply with the policy of causing the emulation environment to isolate the first software object type from the second software object type.

22. The apparatus of claim 21 in which the one or more physical media comprise:

an antenna-containing semiconductor chip.

23. The apparatus of claim 21 in which at least one of the one or more physical media comprises:

one or more signal-bearing media transmitting a portion of the device-detectable output at least partly responsive to obtaining a resource authorization dependent upon apparent compliance with a policy of causing an emulation environment to isolate a first software object type from a second software object type.

24. The apparatus of claim 21 in which the one or more physical media comprise:

a portable module including at least an auditory interface configured to be operated while the portable module is held or worn.

25. The apparatus of claim 21 in which a portion of the one or more physical media comprises:

one or more of an image projection module or a touch screen.

26. The apparatus of claim 21 in which the one or more physical media include at least one of a repeater, a communication satellite, or another active module configured to accept first and second portions of the device-detectable output at first and second respective times.

27. The apparatus of claim 21 in which a portion of the one or more physical media comprises:

one or more processors configured to perform one or more of optical image scanning or auditory pattern scanning upon the device-detectable output.

28. The apparatus of claim 21 in which a portion of the one or more physical media comprises:

one or more processors configured to perform linguistic pattern scanning upon the device-detectable output.

29. The apparatus of claim 21 in which a portion of the one or more physical media comprises:

circuitry for using an encryption constraint in at least some of the device-detectable output.

30. The apparatus of claim 21 in which at least one of the one or more physical media comprises:

one or more signal-bearing media bearing at least one of a special-purpose instruction sequence or an information-bearing static attribute as a portion of the device-detectable output.

31. The apparatus of claim 21 in which at least one of the one or more physical media comprises:

one or more signal-bearing media bearing at least one signal from an implementation having at least circuitry for obtaining a resource authorization dependent upon apparent compliance with a policy of causing an emulation environment to isolate a first software object type from a second software object type; and

circuitry for signaling a decision whether to comply with the policy of causing the emulation environment to isolate the first software object type from the second software object type.

32. The apparatus of claim 21 in which a first portion of the one or more physical media transmits a portion of the device-detectable output before a remainder of the one or more physical media transmits a remainder of the device-detectable output.

33. The apparatus of claim 21 in which the one or more physical media include at least one of an integrated circuit, a data-holding element, a lens or other light-transmissive medium, a signal-bearing conduit currently bearing at least a portion of the device-detectable output, or a bus or other configuration of two or more transmission media in mutual isolation.

34. The apparatus of claim 21 in which a portion of the one or more physical media comprises:

a power line operated for transmitting content of the device-detectable output between at least two terminals.

35. The apparatus of claim 21 in which a first medium of the one or more physical media bears a first portion of the device-detectable output while a second medium of the one or more physical media bears a second portion of the device-detectable output.

36. The apparatus of claim 21 in which the one or more physical media are configured at least (a) by causing a communication channel in the one or more physical media to bear a first portion of the device-detectable output;

and (b) by causing another channel of the one or more physical media to bear a second portion of the device-detectable output.

37. The apparatus of claim 21 in which the one or more physical media have borne the device-detectable output.

38. The apparatus of claim 21 in which a portion of the one or more physical media comprises:

one or more static markings indicative of the device-detectable output.

39. The apparatus of claim 21 in which a portion of the one or more physical media comprises:

a magnetoresistive random access memory configured to receive the device-detectable output.

40. The apparatus of claim 21 further comprising at least one of a satellite dish or other signal-reflective element, a transducer, an antenna, or a receiver operated to receive the device-detectable output.

41. A first method comprising:

performing a reception of or a transmission of one or more instructions in relation to a second method that includes at least;

obtaining a resource authorization dependent upon apparent compliance with a policy of causing an emulation environment to isolate a first software object type from a second software object type; and

signaling a decision whether to comply with the policy of causing the emulation environment to isolate the first software object type from the second software object type.

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