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US 2006/0143137 A1Published application
Protecting privacy of networked devices containing management subsystems
AssigneeIntel Corporation
InventorsHoward Herbert, Moshe Maor
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Abstract
In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a decommission command from a management console, determining that the decommission command is authentic, and disabling the manageability functions of a management subsystem on a managed device.
Claims18
A method comprising:
- receiving a decommission command from a management console;
- determining that the decommission command is authentic;
- and
- disabling manageability functions of a management subsystem on a managed device.
1 more element
An apparatus comprising:
- a management subsystem to receive a decommission command from a management console, to determine that the decommission command is authentic, and to disable manageability functions of a management subsystem on a managed device;
- and
- a non-volatile memory associated with the manageability functions, data stored on the non-volatile memory being erased by the management subsystem in response to the decommission command.
A machine-readable medium containing instructions which, when executed by a processing system, cause the processing system to perform a method, the method comprising:
- receiving a decommission command from a management console;
- determining that the decommission command is authentic;
- and
- disabling manageability functions of a management subsystem on a managed device.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.