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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 19, 2026
Filed:
Oct. 31, 2023
Dell Products L.p., Round Rock, TX (US);
Richard M. Tonry, Georgetown, TX (US);
Abeye Teshome, Austin, TX (US);
Bassem El-Azzami, Austin, TX (US);
Mohit Arora, Frisco, TX (US);
Vinodkumar Vasudev Ottar, Mckinney, TX (US);
Luis Antonio Valencia Reyes, Waxahachie, TX (US);
Adolfo Sandor Montero, Pflugerville, TX (US);
Amy Christine Nelson, Round Rock, TX (US);
Rajaravi Chandra Kollarapu, Allen, TX (US);
Dell Products L.P., Round Rock, TX (US);
Abstract
Methods and systems for managing a data processing system are disclosed. A management controller of the data processing system may provide a sanitization request to a policy management server using an out-of-band communication channel. The management controller may obtain a response to the sanitization request from the policy management server via the out-of-band communication channel. The response may indicate whether performance of a sanitization process is authorized. The authorization may be based on a sanitization policy that governs sanitizations for the data processing system. If performance of the sanitization process is authorized, then the management controller may initiate and/or perform an action set based on the sanitization policy in order to complete the sanitization process, thereby placing the data processing system in a safe state.