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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 05, 2025
Filed:
Aug. 03, 2023
Dell Products L.p., Round Rock, TX (US);
Ibrahim Sayyed, Georgetown, TX (US);
Venkata Rama Krishna Rao Atta, Hyderabad, IN;
Adolfo S. Montero, Pflugerville, TX (US);
Dell Products L.P., Round Rock, TX (US);
Abstract
Disclosed systems and methods address escalated vulnerability attributable to system down time. In at least one embodiment, a customer-selectable threshold of detection establishes the number of days a system is allowed to be 'down' before forcing a secured update path as described herein. The threshold may represent a compromise and balance between inconvenience and security based on each customer's preference. Tracking of system down time or offline time may be managed via EC/SBIOS and a real time clock (RTC) timer. The system down time may then be compared to the customer setting, e.g., whenever the system is booted.