Operating system installations using uniform resource locators from radio frequency identification chips
AssigneeHewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
InventorsRoberto Pereira Silveira, Juliano Ciocari, Kimon Berlin, Charles Staub, Dirceu Ramos
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Abstract
In some examples, a computing device can identify, by a processing resource of the computing device, an operating system (OS) uniform resource locator (URL) from a radio-frequency identification (RFID) chip coupled to the processing resource in response to the computing device being powered on, download from an OS repository an OS descriptor using the OS URL from the RFID chip and an OS image using the OS descriptor, and install an OS to a hard disk of the computing device using the OS image downloaded from the OS repository.
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A non-transitory computer readable medium storing instructions executable by a processing resource in a computing device to:
- in response to the computing device being powered on, identify, by the processing resource in the computing device, an operating system (OS) uniform resource locator (URL) from a radio-frequency identification (RFID) chip included in the computing device;
- download, from an OS repository:
- an OS descriptor using the OS URL from the RFID chip, and
- an OS image using the OS descriptor;
- and
- install an OS to a storage device of the computing device using the OS image downloaded from the OS repository.
A computing device comprising:
- a memory;
- a processor to execute instructions stored in the memory;
- a radio-frequency identification (RFID) chip coupled to the processor;
- and
- a storage device, wherein:
- the RFID chip is to receive an encrypted operating system (OS) uniform resource locator (URL) from an RFID reader/writer device;
- the processor is to:
- decrypt the encrypted OS URL from the RFID chip included in the computing device to derive a decrypted OS URL,
- in response to the computing device being powered on, download, to the memory from an OS repository:
- an OS descriptor corresponding to the decrypted OS URL, and
- an OS image corresponding to the OS descriptor, and install, to the storage device of the computing device, an OS using the OS image downloaded from the OS repository.
A method, comprising:
- receiving, from a radio-frequency identification (RFID) read/write device, a digitally signed operating system (OS) uniform resource locator (URL) at an RFID chip of a computing device while the computing device is powered off;
- verifying, by the computing device, the OS URL using a key;
- downloading, by the computing device from an OS repository in response to the computing device being powered on;
- an OS descriptor corresponding to the OS URL from the RFID chip, and
- an OS image corresponding to the OS descriptor, wherein the OS descriptor and the OS image are downloaded to a memory of the computing device;
- and
- installing, by the computing device, an OS to a storage device of the computing device using the OS image downloaded from the OS repository.
A method comprising:
- receiving, from a radio-frequency identification (RFID) read/write device, a digitally signed operating system (OS) uniform resource locator (URL) at an RFID chip of a computing device;
- verifying, by the computing device, the OS URL using a key;
- downloading, by the computing device from an OS repository in response to the computing device being powered on:
- an OS descriptor corresponding to the OS URL from the RFID chip, and
- an OS image corresponding to the OS descriptor, wherein the OS descriptor and the OS image are downloaded to a memory of the computing device;
- partitioning, in response to downloading the OS descriptor, a storage device by the computing device such that the hard disk storage device includes an OS partition;
- and
- installing, by the computing device, an OS to the storage device of the computing device using the OS image downloaded from the OS repository.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.