Mobile devices having a plurality of virtual interfaces

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9075641-B2
Application number	US-201313918013-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 14, 2013
Priority date	Jun 18, 2010
Publication date	Jul 7, 2015
Grant date	Jul 7, 2015

Abstract

Mobile devices, systems and methods are described with a plurality of virtual machines, wherein each virtual machine executes a separate virtual interface, or guest operating system. Each guest operating system corresponds to a different virtual device having its own contact list, applications, and so on. A virtual “device” can be controlled by an employer or service provider, and is a secure space that provides authenticated applications that are walled off from another virtual device. A host operating system provides a hardware abstraction layer. A proxy server on the host operating system receives an incoming signal from a remote device on the external network, and routes the incoming signal to one of the first and second virtual machines based on a call context. A method and computer program product for providing a plurality of virtual interfaces on a mobile device are also disclosed.

First claim

I claim:

1. A mobile device comprising;
a processor;
a memory that stores computer-executable instructions that, when executed by the processor, causes the processor to perform operations comprising
executing a host operating system including a proxy server that transfers screen focus;
loading a first guest operating system on a first virtual machine, the first virtual machine executing on a first hardware abstraction layer provided by the host operating system and having a f…

Assignees

• At & T Ip I Lp

Inventors

• Pearson Larry B

Classifications

• G06F9/455 Primary

  Physics · mapped topic

• G06F9/45504 Primary

  Physics · mapped topic

• G06F9/45545 Primary

  Physics · mapped topic

• H04L47/2475

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04L47/2441

  Electricity · mapped topic