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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 22, 2015
Filed:
Apr. 25, 2012
Applicants:
Cemil J Ayvaz, Houston, TX (US);
Jorge Daniel Cisneros, Houston, TX (US);
Lee a Preimesberger, Houston, TX (US);
Inventors:
Cemil J Ayvaz, Houston, TX (US);
Jorge Daniel Cisneros, Houston, TX (US);
Lee A Preimesberger, Houston, TX (US);
Assignee:
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP, Houston, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 29/06 (2006.01); G06F 21/00 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/00 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method includes upon receiving a request from a user to perform an operation on a device that is running under an operating system, authenticating the user on the basis of credential data that is retrieved from a data storage unit that is associated with a lights-out management (LOM) capability of the device. If authentication of the user is successful, the user is enabled to perform the operation.