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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 27, 2009
Filed:
Sep. 15, 2004
Martin L. Holladay, Bremerton, WA (US);
Mukesh Karki, Issaquah, WA (US);
Parthasarathy Narayanan, Bellevue, WA (US);
Martin L. Holladay, Bremerton, WA (US);
Mukesh Karki, Issaquah, WA (US);
Parthasarathy Narayanan, Bellevue, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Systems and/or methods that enable secure deployment and/or receipt of an operating system and updates for the operating system to a bare computer across a network susceptible to malicious communication are described. These systems and/or methods can, in one embodiment, securely deploy an image having an operating system and enable secure receipt of an update for the operating system, both via a network susceptible to malicious communication. They can also, in another embodiment, enable a bare computer added to a network to have an operating system deployed to it and updated via the network before the bare computer is subjected to malicious code communicated over the network.