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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 10, 2013
Filed:
Jul. 11, 2006
Apurva Mahendrakumar Bhansali, Austin, TX (US);
Manoj Kumar Jain, Austin, TX (US);
Shradha Dube, Austin, TX (US);
Gayathri Rangarajan, Austin, TX (US);
Mehul Ramjibhai Patel, Austin, TX (US);
Rayesh Kashinath Raikar, Austin, TX (US);
Kamal Mansukhlal Dhanani, Austin, TX (US);
Ranjit Kapila, Austin, TX (US);
Elza Abraham Varghese, Houston, TX (US);
Thomas David Tucker, Austin, TX (US);
Apurva Mahendrakumar Bhansali, Austin, TX (US);
Manoj Kumar Jain, Austin, TX (US);
Shradha Dube, Austin, TX (US);
Gayathri Rangarajan, Austin, TX (US);
Mehul Ramjibhai Patel, Austin, TX (US);
Rayesh Kashinath Raikar, Austin, TX (US);
Kamal Mansukhlal Dhanani, Austin, TX (US);
Ranjit Kapila, Austin, TX (US);
Elza Abraham Varghese, Houston, TX (US);
Thomas David Tucker, Austin, TX (US);
Softex Incorporated, Austin, TX (US);
Abstract
A system and method for securing and tracking an electronic device. The system includes hardware, software and firmware components that cooperate to allow tracking, disabling, and other interaction with the stolen electronic device. The system includes an application component, non-viewable component and Basic Input/Output Subsystem (BIOS) component that are present on the electronic device. The BIOS component maintains the secured environment of the application and non-viewable components. If only the application component was provided, a simple low level format of the hard disk drive would remove the application and bypass the security features. The system implements an 'application and BIOS' based solution to electronic device security.