Privileged used control of device installation and/or...

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2004-09-01

2011-11-22

Zhen, Wei (Department: 2191)

Data processing: software development, installation, and managem

Software installation

C717S175000, C717S178000, C719S321000, C719S322000, C719S327000, C710S008000, C710S015000, C710S020000

Reexamination Certificate

active

08065674

ABSTRACT:
A system and method for entity management is provided. In accordance with an aspect of the present invention, a system administrator is given control over device(s) that can be installed on a computer system(s), and/or how the installation can be performed. Thus, a system administrator can specify device installation policy that prevents the computer system from automatically installing device(s) (e.g., even when an appropriate driver is available to be installed). For example, this policy can be applied to substantially all new devices and/or only a subset of devices. Optionally, policy can also control how device(s) that are already installed will be made available to the computer system.

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