Lenovo (singapore) Pte. Ltd.

Keiko Kokubun

Seiichi Kawano

Mikio Hagiwara

Jeffrey Mark Estroff

Randall Scott Springfield

David Carroll Challener

An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for pre-boot policy modification. A key module exchanges a key with a server in a secure environment. A communication module receives a policy encoded with the key. A decode module decodes the encoded policy using the key and saves the policy setting prior to booting an operating system on the computer. An update module boots the computer using the policy.

Apparatus, system, and method for pre-boot policy modification

A system, apparatus, and methods are disclosed for aligning a stored scancode sequence that corresponds to a hardware password, with a password input device type such as a current keyboard type. Aligning the stored scancode sequence with the password input device type enables successful validation of a hardware password despite a change in a password input device type or inadvertent corruption of a non-volatile memory used for storing the scancode sequence such as non-volatile memory that stores BIOS information for a computing device.

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Yokohama, Japan

Keiko Kokubun