Remote access to hosted virtual machines by enterprise users
US8607054B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Oct 15, 2010 |
| Grant date | Dec 10, 2013 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Aug 17, 2031 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06F2009/45587
- WIPO fieldDigital communication
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
An end user of an enterprise is enabled to receive secure remote presentation access to the assigned virtual machines in a hosted public cloud through the cloud provider's virtualization hosts and remote presentation gateway. Thus an enterprise administrator may purchase computing capacity from the cloud provider and further sub-divide the purchased computing capacity among enterprise end users. The cloud provider need not create shadow accounts for each end user of the enterprise. The cloud provider AD and the enterprise AD do not need to trust each other. The cloud provider also need not expose host information to the tenants. Authorization may be provided by using a combination of a custom authorization plug-in at the terminal services gateway and an indirection listener component at the virtualization host. The host details may also be abstracted when the client connects to the remote presentation gateway so as to protect the fabric from attack and enabling the tenant virtual machines to freely move across the cloud provider's virtualization hosts.
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