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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Feb. 20, 2024

Filed:

Dec. 09, 2019
Applicant:

Hewlett-packard Development Company, L.p., Spring, TX (US);

Inventors:

Mason Andrew Gunyuzlu, Spring, TX (US);

Robert Stephen Craig, Spring, TX (US);

Tevin Richards, Spring, TX (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/83 (2013.01); G06F 21/31 (2013.01); G06F 21/74 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/83 (2013.01); G06F 21/31 (2013.01); G06F 21/74 (2013.01);
Abstract

Example computing devices that are enabled to enter secure operating modes are provided. An example computing device includes a main processor to run an operating system enabled to establish communication from an external device to the main processor via a hardware interrupt handler when the external device is connected to the computing device. The computing device further includes a keyboard controller to detect a lock keystroke sequence at a keyboard, and, in response to detecting the lock keystroke sequence, cause the main processor to halt the operating system and to enter a secure operating mode in which communication from the external device to the main processor via the hardware interrupt handler is blocked.


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