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US 2010/0164722 A1Published application
Theft deterrence technology using asynchronous notification
OwnerDuncan Glendinning, Vijay Raoinventors
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Abstract
For one disclosed embodiment, an enabled state of a mobile computing platform may be modified in response to an asynchronous notification from a server. Other embodiments are also disclosed.
Claims17
An apparatus comprising:
- a controller including:
- a theft deterrence logic to perform, in response to receiving an asynchronous notification from a server, an action in accordance with a theft policy, and
- a secured storage to store one or more values for a mobile computing platform having the controller,
- the theft deterrence logic to selectively modify an enabled state of the mobile computing platform in response to the asynchronous notification.
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A method comprising:
- receiving from a server an asynchronous notification concerning a current possession status of a mobile computing platform;
- selectively modifying an enabled state of the mobile computing platform in response to the asynchronous notification,
- wherein the selectively modifying includes manipulating one or more encryption keys stored in a secured storage of the mobile computing platform.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.