Approval process for booting devices in pre-boot execution...

Details Approval process for booting devices in pre-boot execution... Approval process for booting devices in pre-boot execution...

2006-02-21

2009-08-11

Chen, Tse (Department: 2116)

Electrical computers and digital processing systems: support

Digital data processing system initialization or configuration

Loading initialization program

C713S001000, C713S100000

Reexamination Certificate

active

07574592

ABSTRACT:
Approving a client to boot in a pre-boot execution environment. A request is received from the client to boot the client by a computing device. The request includes device information associated with the client. A data store having a collection of known device information is queried in response to the received request. The request is stored, and it is determined whether to execute the received request by evaluating the device information in the stored request. The received request is responded to as a function of the evaluated device information.

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