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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 09, 2023
Filed:
Jun. 22, 2021
Dell Products L.p., Round Rock, TX (US);
Anantha K. Boyapalle, Cedar Park, TX (US);
Charles D. Robison, Buford, GA (US);
Vaibhav Soni, Austin, TX (US);
Dell Products L.P., Round Rock, TX (US);
Abstract
Systems and methods are provided that may be implemented to provide a hardware-rooted, protected, and operating system (OS)-agnostic environment in which designated logic (e.g., one or more software and/or firmware tools such as an OS agent) may be run to verify the ownership and/or registration of a given information handling system before the OS is booted and running, and therefore before system data (e.g., user data) is exposed. In one exemplary embodiment, the designated logic may include a unified extensible firmware interface (UEFI) driver that is protected (e.g., signed), and that runs during the system boot sequence before the OS is booted. The disclosed systems and methods may be advantageously implemented in one embodiment to allow a system user who purchases and acquires a given information handling system from a source and/or channel other than the original system manufacturer to register and/or associate the given information handling system with their manufacturer-assigned user account.