PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15939802
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["726", "004000"]

Abstract:
Methods and systems for performing an authenticated boot; performing a continuous data protection; performing automatic protection and optionally a consolidation; and performing other defenses and protection of a protected computing device (such as a computer system) are provided. The aspects include integrating security mechanisms (which may include a “call home” function, role and rule-based policies, validating technologies, encryption and decryption technologies, data compression technologies, protected and segmented boot technologies, and virtualization technologies. Booting and operating (either fully or in a restricted manner) are permitted only under a control of a specified role-set, rule-set, and/or a controlling supervisory process or server system(s). The methods and systems make advantageous use of hypervisors and other virtual machine monitors or managers.

Claim (Index 13):
A distributed computer system with multiple network nodes for exercising control over whether to launch an operating system on at least one protected computing device in order to improve efficient operation of said at least one protected computing device free from unwarranted intrusion, said distributed computer system comprising:\n (a) at least one protected computing device further comprising a processor at a first node configured for communication through a network with a storage controller to access secure data at a second node, (b) at least one operating system configured to operate on said at least one protected computing device, (c) a virtual machine configured to operate on said at least one protected computing device, said virtual machine configured to be launched during boot of said at least one protected computing device but prior to launch of said at least one operating system; (d) a control console configured to exert a measure of control through said network over said at least one protected computing device, and wherein said control console is operable within a console device located remotely from said at least one protected computing device; (e) an authentication server, configured for authenticating said at least one protected computing device for access to said secure data; (f) a virtual machine manager associated with said virtual machine, said virtual machine manager configured to execute based on one or more policies, said virtual machine manager further comprising a hypervisor configured to operate on said at least one protected computing device, said virtual machine manager further configured to be launched after powering on said at least one protected computing device and before booting said operating system to operate on said at least one protected computing device, said virtual machine manager further configured to interact with said authentication server, wherein an authentication routine is used to authenticate said at least one protected computing device, and wherein said authentication server provides indicia relating to said authentication routine to said virtual machine manager, said virtual machine manager configured to receive indicia from said authentication server relating to the result of said an authentication routines, and said hypervisor of said virtual machine manager is configured to either launch or not launch said operating system based upon said indicia.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 74.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.67059
- Patent Class: 726.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12514222', '13866954', '12711833', '10919361', '13920005']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.2718137869619092
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5270562635394327
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.2973380346196616
- Mean Citation Score: 203.481442
- Max Citation Score: 352.2878
- Similarity Product: 276.85210391931537

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 1
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 1
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

Dataset: test