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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 04, 2024
Filed:
Oct. 22, 2021
Dell Products, L.p., Round Rock, TX (US);
Marshal F. Savage, Austin, TX (US);
Jason Matthew Young, Round Rock, TX (US);
Mukund P. Khatri, Austin, TX (US);
Dell Products, L.P., Round Rock, TX (US);
Abstract
Systems and procedures are provided for enforcing geographic restrictions on the operation of an IHS (Information Handling System). During factory provisioning of the IHS, a signed inventory certificate is uploaded to the IHS that specifies a plurality of allowed geographic locations at which the IHS is operational. Upon delivery and initial powering of the IHS, a validation environment is instantiated and further initialization of the IHS is halted until a location of the IHS can be determined. Once a geographic location of the IHS has been determined, it is compared to the allowed geographic locations from the inventory certificate stored during factory provisioning. When the location of the IHS is not at an allowed geographic location specified in the inventory certificate, the IHS is rendered non-operational. When the location of the IHS is at an allowed geographic location specified in the inventory certificate, further initialization of the IHS is enabled.