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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 02, 2016
Filed:
Feb. 27, 2013
Lenovo Enterprise Solutions (Singapore) Pte. Ltd., Singapore, SG;
Shiva R. Dasari, Austin, TX (US);
Sudhir Dhawan, Austin, TX (US);
Raghuswamyreddy Gundam, Austin, TX (US);
Joshua H. Israel, Austin, TX (US);
Karthik Kolavasi, Austin, TX (US);
Newton P. Liu, Austin, TX (US);
Douglas W. Oliver, Round Rock, TX (US);
Mehul M. Shah, Austin, TX (US);
Wingcheung Tam, Austin, TX (US);
Lenovo Enterprise Solutions (Singapore) Pte. Ltd., Singapore, SG;
Abstract
Preventing propagation of hardware viruses in a computing system, including: determining, by a hardware virus detection module, whether an empty connector in the computing system is damaged, wherein the empty connector is blocked from receiving an attachable computing device by a bumper; determining, by the hardware virus detection module, whether a connector for the attachable computing device is damaged; and responsive to determining that the empty connector is not damaged and that the connector for the attachable computing device is not damaged, moving the bumper such that the empty connector is not blocked from receiving the attachable computing device.