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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 23, 2025
Filed:
Nov. 15, 2023
Dell Products, L.p., Round Rock, TX (US);
A Anis Ahmed, Bangalore, IN;
Jason Matthew Young, Round Rock, TX (US);
Balakrishna Padhy, Bangalore, IN;
Dell Products, L.P., Round Rock, TX (US);
Abstract
Systems and methods are provided for validation of the transfer of hardware components between two different IHSs (Information Handling Systems). During factory provisioning of the two IHSs, a factory-signed inventory certificate is uploaded to each IHS that identifies factory-installed hardware of the respective IHS. This inventory certificate is used to validate that the detected hardware of each IHS is genuine factory-installed hardware. When a discrepancy is detected during these validations, each IHS notifies a certificate management system. If the certificate management system receives discrepancy notifications from two IHSs that correspond to an authorized transfer of hardware components between these IHSs, delta certificates are generated for use by each IHS in validating these changes to the factory-installed hardware in each respective IHS.