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• Patents > 2009-11-26 > SECTION G PHYSICS > COMPUTING; CALCULATING; COUNTING > ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING

VIRTUAL SYSTEM AND METHOD OF RESTRICTING USE OF CONTENTS IN THE VIRTUAL SYSTEM

Abstract

Provided is a method of restricting use of contents in a virtual system comprising at least one virtual machine implemented by applying virtualization technology to a predetermined device. The method includes: reading a first device identifier from the device in order to identify the device; reading a second device identifier, which is a device identifier allocated to the at least one virtual machine, from the at least one virtual machine; determining whether the first device identifier is identical to the second device identifier; and selectively restricting use of contents in the at least one virtual machine based on a result of the determining.

Filed on: 2009-03-30; Application Number: 12413621