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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 11, 2009
Filed:
Feb. 21, 2006
Christopher Scott Dickens, Issaquah, WA (US);
Asad Yaqoob, Redmond, WA (US);
Saad Syed, Kirkland, WA (US);
Christopher Scott Dickens, Issaquah, WA (US);
Asad Yaqoob, Redmond, WA (US);
Saad Syed, Kirkland, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Approving a client to boot in a pre-boot execution environment. A request is received from the client to boot the client by a computing device. The request includes device information associated with the client. A data store having a collection of known device information is queried in response to the received request. The request is stored, and it is determined whether to execute the received request by evaluating the device information in the stored request. The received request is responded to as a function of the evaluated device information.