Patent ID: 8505107
Filing Date: 2013-08-06
Classification: G06F,H04L

Abstract:
1. An access management method being performed by execution of instructions by a processor of a cloud server to protect data security of the cloud server, the method comprising: setting a location data range in relation to authorized clients of the cloud server, and storing the location data range into a storage device; requesting a client to send location data of the client in response to receiving a request to access the cloud server from the client; determining if the location data of the client has been received within a preset time period, determining the client is not an authorized client and refusing the client to access the cloud server in response that no location data has been received from the client within the preset time period or the received location data falls outside the location data range, or determining if the client passes further authentication requirements in response that the received location data falls within the location data range; and determining the client is not an authorized client and refusing the client to access the cloud server in response that the client fails any of the further authentication requirements, or determining the client is an authorized client in response that the client passes all of the further authentication requirements.