Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Persistent enrollment of a computing device using a BIOS
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Application No.: US15466830Application Date: 2017-03-22
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Publication No.: US10445106B2Publication Date: 2019-10-15
- Inventor: Jason Roszak , Craig Newell , Shravan Shantharam , Varun Murthy , Kalyan Regula , Blake Watts
- Applicant: VMware, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA Palo Alto
- Assignee: VMware, Inc.
- Current Assignee: VMware, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Palo Alto
- Agency: Clayton, McKay & Bailey, PC
- Main IPC: G06F15/177
- IPC: G06F15/177 ; G06F9/4401 ; G06F9/451 ; H04L29/08 ; G06F11/14 ; G06F8/61

Abstract:
Systems and methods are included for causing a computing device to install a management agent prior to an operating system completing its first boot. A bootstrap loader is flashed into firmware, such as the BIOS, of a computing device. The bootstrap loader installs an enroller that identifies a management agent. This can include downloading the management agent from a management server. The enroller can find or contact the management server by contacting an address provided in a WINDOWS Platform Binary Table (WPBT). The management agent is installed prior to the user logging into the operating system to prevent circumvention of management policies.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180276000A1 PERSISTENT ENROLLMENT OF A COMPUTING DEVICE USING A BIOS Public/Granted day:2018-09-27
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