Patent ID: 9565168
Date: 2017-02-07
CPC Classifications: H04L

Claim:
1. A method of establishing hardware assisted trust to a communication server that does not utilize hardware assisted trust, comprising: checking, by a secure application of a first server, for a message that requests for establishment of a secure communication link between the first server and a different server, wherein the secure application is executed on a first processor of a plurality of processors of the first server, and wherein the message is directed from the different server to the secure application of the first server; finding, by the secure application, the message that requests establishment of the secure communication link; responsive to finding the message, sending, by the secure application, a request to an operating system to suspend each of the plurality of processors except for the first processor; responsive to finding the message, sending, by the secure application, a request to the operating system to suspend a process that is executing on the first processor; conducting, by the secure application, a communication session with the different server; responsive to conducting the communication session, sending, by the secure application, a request to the operating system to release each of the plurality of processors that were suspended and to resume functionality; and responsive to conducting the communication session, sending, by the secure application, a request to the operating system to resume execution of the process that was suspended on the first processor.