Systems and methods for remotely provisioning facial recognition data to heterogeneous computing platforms

An Information Handling System (IHS) shareable among a plurality of users in a hoteling environment, the IHS comprising:

• a heterogeneous computing platform;
• and
• a memory coupled to the heterogeneous computing platform, wherein the memory comprises a plurality of sets of firmware instructions, wherein each of the sets of firmware instructions, upon execution by a respective device among a plurality of devices of the heterogeneous computing platform, enables the respective device to provide a corresponding firmware service, and wherein at least one of the plurality of devices operates as an orchestrator configured to:
• transmit a request to a server to receive facial recognition data associated with a given one of the plurality of users assigned to the IHS;
• receive the facial recognition data from the server;
• perform a Walk away Lock (WaL) operation based, at least in part, upon the facial recognition data;
• identify the given one of the plurality of users as an authorized IHS user, in response to the operation being performed;
• and
• grant the user access to at least one feature of the IHS, in response to the identification, wherein the at least one feature comprises automatic logging of the user out of a host Operating System (OS) of the IHS when the user leaves a field of view of the IHS for at least a certain amount of time;
• wherein the user is selected among the plurality of users based, at least in part, upon context data, and wherein the context data comprises a location of the IHS.

An Information Handling System (IHS) shareable among a plurality of users in a hoteling environment, the IHS comprising:

• a heterogeneous computing platform;
• and
• a memory coupled to the heterogeneous computing platform, wherein the memory comprises a plurality of sets of firmware instructions, wherein each of the sets of firmware instructions, upon execution by a respective device among a plurality of devices of the heterogeneous computing platform, enables the respective device to provide a corresponding firmware service, and wherein at least one of the plurality of devices operates as an orchestrator configured to:
• transmit a request to a server to receive facial recognition data associated with a given one of the plurality of users assigned to the IHS;
• receive the facial recognition data from the server;
• perform a Wake-on-Approach (WoA) operation based, at least in part, upon the facial recognition data;
• identify the given one of the plurality of users as an authorized IHS user, in response to the operation being performed;
• and
• grant the user access to at least one feature of the IHS, in response to the identification, wherein the at least one feature comprises automatic logging of the user into a host Operating System (OS) of the IHS without the user touching the IHS;
• wherein the user is selected among the plurality of users based, at least in part, upon context data, and wherein the context data comprises a security, privacy, clearance, or confidentiality level of a file accessed by the user.