Dell Products Inc.

Openpeak Inc.

Danilo Ong Tan

Fernando L Guerrero

Srikanth Kondapi

Abu Shaher Sanaullah

Geroncio Ong Tan

Daniel Lawrence Hamlin

Nikhil Manohar Vichare

Mohit Arora

Michael S Gatson

Anantha K Boyapalle

Marc Randall Hammons

Paul Krzyzanowski

Harpreet S Narula

Robert M Dare

Daniel J Gittleman

John R Brown

Christopher Michael Wade

Timothy Carlyle Shaw

James T Gillon

Hariprasad Janardana Iyer

Alexander Kucheravy

Zheng Yuan

Douglas Wayne Gillespie

Mark R Ligameri

Yuan-Chang Lo

Carlton A Andrews

Todd Erick Swierk

Sathish Kumar Bikumala

Ibrahim Sayyed

Philip M Seibert

Dirie N Herzi

James Damon Trim

Mandy Christina Phelps

Steven Downum

Brijesh Kumar Mishra

Purushothama R Malluru

Kurian George

Shun-Tang Hsu

Juan Manuel Martinez

Nathan Benjamin Buch

Vani Budhati

A security lock is provided for a mobile device. The security lock includes a pair of locking elements and a pair of electromechanical actuators. Each locking element has a profile configured to complement a profile of a locking tab of an external locking assembly. Each electromechanical actuator is configured to engage an associated one of the locking elements to lock the locking tab to the mobile device, and to disengage the associated locking element to unlock the locking tab.

Integrated security lock

Enabling codecs at an IHS, including: detecting a request to encode or decode a media file, the media file associated with a particular codec for encoding or decoding of the media file, the codec wrapper indicating to the media framework a capability to encode or decode the media file, the codec wrapper not including the particular codec; in response to receiving the request, failing, based on the codec wrapper not including the particular codec, encoding or decoding of the media file by the codec wrapper; transmitting a request to a cloud codec management service for a particular token associated with the particular codec; receiving the particular token, the particular token signed and unique to the IHS, and in response: uninstalling the wrapper codec from being associated with the media framework; and enabling the particular codec for the media file to be associated with the media framework.

Codec management at an information handling system

Enabling codecs at an IHS including: accessing a local token store that stores tokens, each token associated with a codec; identifying codecs enabled at the IHS based on the tokens; receiving a request to encode or decode a media file, the media file associated with a particular codec for encoding or decoding of the media file; determining that the particular codec is not enabled at the IHS based on the previously identified enabled codecs, and in response, transmitting a request to a cloud codec management service; receiving the particular token, the particular token signed and unique to the IHS, and in response, storing the particular token at the local token store; restarting the driver, and in response, accessing the local token store; obtaining from the local token store, the particular token, and in response, enabling the particular codec for the media file.

Dynamic device enablement is provided. A device management application can be configured as a shell application and can be customized dynamically with plugins for devices that are connected to a computing device. The plugins can be defined within driver metadata of drivers for the devices. When the drivers are loaded, the device management application can access the driver metadata to dynamically determine which plugins to install and can then automatically install them.

Dynamic device enablement

Systems and methods for an adaptive scheduler for collaboration networking are described. In an illustrative, non-limiting embodiment, a first Information Handling System (IHS) may include: a processor; and a memory coupled to the processor, wherein the memory comprises program instructions store thereon that, upon execution by the processor, cause the first IHS to: establish a peer-to-peer (P2P) connection with a second IHS; and adapt a scan rate and an advertisement rate of the first IHS based, at least in part, on context of the P2P connection. If the first IHS is configured as a host for the P2P connection, then it can adapt an advertisement rate of the first IHS, and stop any scans by the first IHS. If the first IHS is configured as a client for the P2P connection, it can adapt a scan rate of the first IHS, and stop any advertisements by the first IHS.

Adaptive scheduler for collaboration networking

An information handling system may include at least one processor and a non-transitory, computer-reading medium having instructions thereon that are executable by the at least one processor for: providing access to one or more objects via a plurality of application programming interface (API) endpoints; receiving a call to a particular API endpoint from an app; and determining, based on a security identifier (SID) of the app, whether the call should be allowed; wherein the SID of the app is based on one or more custom capabilities defined in a manifest of the app.

Authorizing application access via custom UWP SID

Bluetooth devices can be paired using patterns. A pattern can be used to ensure that the correct Bluetooth device is being paired. A pattern may also be used to provide security to the pairing process by encrypting the key exchange with keys generated from the pattern. In some implementations, the pattern to be used can be generated based on the device class.

Using patterns to pair Bluetooth devices

An information handling system downloads device drivers for recovery operation of the information handling system, and subsequently obtains first configuration information associated with each of the device drivers. The system performs an inventory of devices associated with the information handling system that includes obtaining second configuration information associated with each of the devices in the inventory, and compares the first configuration information and the second configuration information. If the particular device driver is missing, then the system downloads the particular device driver prior to boot to a service operating system.

System and method for runtime synchronization and authentication of pre-boot device drivers for a rescue operating system

Minimizing data exposure during screen sharing, including detecting remote access of an information handling system by an external information handling system; in response to detecting the remote access, identifying a selection of one or more application elements of an application executing on the information handling system for obscuration; applying an image filter to the selected application elements to adjust display properties of the selected application elements such that display content of the application elements is obscured for viewing by the external information handling system; and after applying the image filter to the selected application elements, providing remote access of the information handling system to the external information handling system, including providing remote access to the obscured display content of the selected application elements of the application.

Minimizing data exposure during screen sharing

An information handling system includes an motion sensor, an embedded controller, and a battery charge indicator. The motion sensor detects a battery charge request, and provides a trigger signal in response to the battery charge request being detected. The embedded controller receives the trigger signal from the motion sensor, and requests a relative state of charge of a battery in response to the trigger signal. The embedded controller then receives the relative state of charge of the battery, and provides a relative state of charge indication signal. The battery charge indicator receives the relative state of charge indication signal, and outputs an indication of the relative state of charge of the battery based on relative state of charge indication signal.

Information handling system with sensor activated battery charge level indicator

C-state transitions due to software timer interrupts can be minimized. A timer interrupt synchronizer can be deployed on a computing device to function as an intermediary between software components that rely on timer interrupts and a timer interrupt architecture of the computing device. When the software components request timer interrupts, the timer interrupt synchronizer can ensure that timer interrupts having the same frequency can be synchronized to occur at the same time. As a result of this synchronization, a CPU can experience fewer C-state transitions due to the timer interrupts.

Minimizing C-state transitions due to software timer interrupts

An information handling system includes a memory to cache a manifest that has authorized programming interfaces of a client application after the manifest was retrieved from the client application. A native service may receive a connection request from the client application, and verify that a digital signature of the client application is valid and untampered. The native service may also retrieve the manifest from the client application, receive an application programming interface request from the client application, and validate whether the application programming interface request is authorized based on the manifest. If the application programming interface request is authorized, then the application programming interface request is processed.

Client authorization mechanisms to access native services

A computerized method to store aggregate information handling system interaction telemetry data representing levels of operational activity reported for a user of an information handling system in a monitoring system data repository memory device and for receiving aggregate information handling system interaction telemetry data for a plurality of other users crowd-sourced from a population of information handling systems accessed by a plurality of other users. An interaction signature platform may apply a supervised learning model algorithm to the aggregate information handling system interaction telemetry data for the user in comparison to the aggregate information handling system interaction telemetry data for the plurality of other users to determine at least one indirect identifier of the interaction telemetry data. The interaction signature platform constructs a fingerprint profile of operational activity by the user including a usage signature baseline for the at least one indirect identifier unique enough for identification.

System and method to assess anomalous behavior on an information handling system using indirect identifiers

An information handling system may include a processor to execute code of a threat level detection module to receive and store in memory labeled data descriptive of operating environment variables related to the information handling system including operating environment variables selected from a basic input/output system (BIOS) setting, an information handling system hardware setting, and at least one of an operating system (OS) environment setting, a developer tool access setting, or a network setting; the processor to determine, via execution of a machine learning process of the threat level detection module, a threat level value; and a security module associated with a first application executed on the information handling system to: map the threat level value with the first application; and adjust the security level associated with the first application based on the provided threat level value to modify security checks operating with the first application.

Systems and methods of implementing security context aware response time optimization

An information handling system includes a device, a driver associated with the device, and a BIOS. The device provides first information associated with a first function and second information associated with a companion application. The BIOS receives the first and second information. The BIOS includes a procedure to implement the first function, but lacks a procedure to implement the second function. The BIOS sends the second input information to the driver. The driver determines that the companion application is instantiated on the information handling system and directs the second information to the companion application, and the driver determines that the companion application is not instantiated on the information handling system, accesses a network to install the companion application, and directs the second information to the companion application.

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Austin, TX, United States of America

Danilo Ong Tan