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Date of Patent:
Jan. 08, 2019

Filed:

Mar. 16, 2018
Applicant:

Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);

Inventors:

Stefan Thom, Snohomish, WA (US);

Ronald Aigner, Redmond, WA (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 29/06 (2006.01); G06F 21/62 (2013.01); G06F 21/12 (2013.01); G06F 21/57 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/577 (2013.01); G06F 21/121 (2013.01); G06F 21/575 (2013.01); G06F 21/62 (2013.01); H04L 63/145 (2013.01); G06F 21/57 (2013.01); G06F 2221/034 (2013.01);
Abstract

The use of one or more device health values to indicate the health status of a computing device may enable operating system developers to directly manage the security configuration of the computing device. For instance, a device health value is generated based on a state of the hardware component and/or a state of a software stack that includes the operating system at boot up. The device health value may be compared to a reference health value to determine whether the computing device is in a secured state. Based on the device health value not matching the reference health value, it is determined that the computing device is operating in an unexpected state. Also, a recovery environment may be implemented on the computing device in order to fix any errors with the computing device.


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