Smart card enabled secure computing environment system

Details Smart card enabled secure computing environment system Smart card enabled secure computing environment system

2002-10-18

2010-12-28

Patel, Nirav (Department: 2435)

Electrical computers and digital processing systems: support

System access control based on user identification by...

Using record or token

C713S182000, C726S009000, C726S020000

Reexamination Certificate

active

07861091

ABSTRACT:
A smart card enabled secure computing environment system locks the host computer system from user access and waits for a smart card to be inserted into an attached or co-resident smart card reader. When a smart card is inserted into the smart card reader, the invention asks the user to enter his smart card password which is compared to the password on the smart card. If the two passwords match, the invention looks up the user's username in an access file of valid users and finds its associated access times and/or cumulative time limits in the access file. if the current time is within any of the valid access times and the user's cumulative usage time is within the specified cumulative time limit, then access is granted and the system is unlocked. The invention periodically checks the current time while the user is using the computer. If a blocked time period is entered or a cumulative time limit is exceeded, the user is logged off the machine and the computer is locked from user access. If at any time the user's smart card is removed from the smart card reader the invention will shut down all of the user's programs and lock the system.

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