System and method to lock electronic device
AssigneeIntel Corporation
InventorsGyan Prakash, Duncan Glendinning, Saurabh Dadu, Mojtaba Mojy Mirashrafi, Mousumi M. Hazra, Carol A. Bell
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Abstract
A method to lock an electronic device comprising an operating system comprises placing the electronic device in a disable state in which the processor is blocked from accessing the operating system, receiving a first unlock password from a remote source during a power-up operation of the electronic device, and placing the electronic device in a temporary unlock state which allows the processor to boot the operating system for a predetermined period of time when the first unlock password matches a password stored in the electronic device. Other embodiments may be described.
Claims20
A method to lock an electronic device comprising a processor and an operating system, comprising:
- placing the electronic device in a disable state in which the processor is blocked from accessing the operating system;
- receiving a first unlock password from a remote source during a power-up operation of the electronic device;
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- placing the electronic device in a temporary unlock state which allows the processor to boot the operating system when the first unlock password matches a password stored in the electronic device.
An electronic device, comprising:
- a processor;
- an operating system executable on the processor;
- logic to:
- receive a first unlock password from a remote source during a power-up operation of the electronic device;
- place the electronic device in a temporary unlock state which allows the processor to boot the operating system for a predetermined period of time when the first unlock password matches a password stored in the electronic device.
A computer program product comprising logic instructions stored on a computer readable medium which, when executed by a processor in an electronic device, configure the processor to lock an electronic device comprising an operating system by performing operations, comprising:
- placing the electronic device in a disable state in which the processor is blocked from accessing the operating system;
- receiving a first unlock password from a remote source during a power-up operation of the electronic device;
- placing the electronic device in a temporary unlock state which allows the processor to boot the operating system for a predetermined period of time when the first unlock password matches a password stored in the controller.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.