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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 01, 2024
Filed:
Oct. 22, 2021
Dell Products, L.p., Round Rock, TX (US);
Jason Matthew Young, Round Rock, TX (US);
A Anis Ahmed, Bangalore, IN;
Harmeet Singh, Bengaluru, IN;
Dell Products, L.P., Round Rock, TX (US);
Abstract
Methods and systems are provided for validating and registering an IHS (Information Handling System) and components of the IHS for technical support. Upon delivery and initialization of an IHS, an inventory certificate that was uploaded to the IHS during factory provisioning of the IHS is retrieved. The inventory certificate includes an inventory that identifies factory-installed hardware components in the IHS. The inventory also specifies whether a registration requirement has been specified for the IHS, such as to initiate technical support. While still operating a pre-boot validation process, an inventory is collected of the detected hardware components of the IHS. Based on the inventory certificate, the validation process confirms whether a detected hardware component is a factory-installed hardware component and determines whether registration is required. If required, registration of the IHS is initiated by the validation process and initialization of the IHS continues.