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US 8,137,410 B2Granted
Electronic device disabling system and method
AssigneeSoftex Incorporated
InventorsApurva Mahendrakumar Bhansali, Manoj Kumar Jain, Shradha Dube, Gayathri Rangarajan, Mehul Ramjibhai Patel, Rayesh Kashinath Raikar, Kamal Mansukhlal Dhanani, Ranjit Kapila, Elza Abraham Varghese, Thomas David Tucker
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Abstract
A method for tracking, locating and disabling an electronic device. A method includes checking if an application component operated correctly during last power-up of the device; and placing the device under control of power on self test to proceed with powering-up the device if the application component operated correctly during last device power-up.
Claims20
A method for securing and disabling an electronic device, comprising:
- in an electronic device, automatically determining whether a hidden partition in the electronic device is valid, wherein the electronic device comprises a disk drive, wherein the disk drive comprises the hidden partition and an application component associated with tracking and locating the electronic device, and wherein the hidden partition comprises a non-viewable component associated with tracking and locating the electronic device;
- in response to a determination that the hidden partition is valid, automatically loading the non-viewable component and transferring control to the non-viewable component;
- and
- performing, with the non-viewable component, operations comprising:
- automatically determining whether the application component operated correctly during last power-up of the electronic device;
- in response to a determination that the application component did not operate correctly during last power-up of the electronic device, automatically restoring the application component from a backup fileset;
- and
- automatically placing the electronic device under control of power on self test (POST) to proceed with powering-up the electronic device in response to a determination that the application component operated correctly during last power-up of the electronic device.
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An apparatus comprising:
- a non-transitory machine-readable storage medium;
- and
- instructions stored in the non-transitory machine-readable storage medium, which when executed by a machine, cause the machine to perform operations comprising:
- automatically determining whether a hidden partition in the electronic device is valid, wherein the electronic device comprises a disk drive, wherein the disk drive comprises the hidden partition and an application component associated with tracking and locating the electronic device, and wherein the hidden partition comprises a non-viewable component associated with tracking and locating the electronic device;
- in response to a determination that the hidden partition is valid, automatically loading the non-viewable component and transferring control to the non-viewable component;
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- performing, with the non-viewable component, operations comprising:
- automatically determining whether the application component operated correctly during last power-up of the electronic device;
- in response to a determination that the application component did not operate correctly during last power-up of the electronic device, automatically restoring the application component from a backup fileset;
- and
- automatically placing the electronic device under control of power on self test (POST) to proceed with powering-up the electronic device in response to a determination that the application component operated correctly during last power-up of the electronic device.
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A method for securing an electronic device, comprising:
- in an electronic device, automatically determining whether a hidden partition in the electronic device is valid, wherein the electronic device comprises a disk drive and a basic input/output system (BIOS) component associated with tracking and locating the electronic device, wherein the disk drive comprises the hidden partition and an application component associated with tracking and locating the electronic device, and wherein the hidden partition comprises a non-viewable component associated with tracking and locating the electronic device;
- in response to a determination that the hidden partition is valid, automatically loading the BIOS component and transferring control to the BIOS component;
- and
- performing, with the BIOS component, operations comprising:
- automatically determining whether the application component operated correctly during last power-up of the electronic device;
- in response to a determination that the application component did not operate correctly during last power-up of the electronic device, automatically restoring the application component from a backup fileset;
- and
- automatically placing the electronic device under control of power on self test (POST) to proceed with powering-up the device in response to a determination that the application component operated correctly during last power-up of the electronic device.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.