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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 08, 2012
Filed:
Aug. 12, 2009
Mark Collins, Dripping Springs, TX (US);
Subramanian Ganesan, Austin, TX (US);
Mark Collins, Dripping Springs, TX (US);
Subramanian Ganesan, Austin, TX (US);
Dell Products L.P., Round Rock, TX (US);
Abstract
A system which enables a secure network boot to address customer services offerings. The customer service offerings can include on-demand diagnostics to system reinstallation as well as automatic entitlement validation and service installation. Such a system enables a method of network booting that can be secure from beginning to end, is routable in any network configuration that supports Internet routing, avoids traditional infrastructure requirements thereby making the infrastructure more accessible, is extensible to address scaling requirements, is extensible to EFI technology and can be used on existing BIOS option-ROM implementations, provides a better (i.e., simpler, more secure) customer experience for network boot services, provides a multi-stage architecture that allows numerous service offerings to be obtained once entitlement is validated, and provides for both In-Band (OS operational and booted) and Out-of-Band (OS not operational or not installed) access to remote service capabilities.