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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 05, 2026
Filed:
Nov. 15, 2023
Dell Products, L.p., Round Rock, TX (US);
Dharma Bhushan Ramaiah, Bangalore, IN;
Shinose Abdul Rahiman, Bangalore, IN;
Rama Rao Bisa, Bangalore, IN;
Mini Thottunkal Thankappan, Bangalore, IN;
Vineeth Radhakrishnan, Palakkad, IN;
A Anis Ahmed, Bangalore, IN;
Jason Matthew Young, Round Rock, TX (US);
Dell Products L.P., Round Rock, TX (US);
Abstract
Systems and methods are provided for supporting validation of flexible configurations of hardware components installed in IHSs (Information Handling Systems). During factory provisioning of an IHS, a factory-signed inventory certificate is uploaded to the IHS that identifies factory-installed hardware of the IHS, and that also includes designations for each of the factory-installed hardware components as required or optional components. Upon deployment of the IHS, validation procedures of the IHS use the inventory certificate to validate the detected IHS hardware as factory-installed hardware. When a hardware component specified in the inventory certificate as optional is not present in the detected hardware components, booting of the IHS may continue. When a hardware component specified in the inventory certificate as required is not present in the detected hardware components, a validation failure is signaled.