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| 20080244168 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR A PRIMARY OPERATING SYSTEM AND AN APPLIANCE OPERATING SYSTEM - One embodiment includes a personal computer device comprising at least one machine to execute a primary user operating system, a first physical memory to be used by the primary user operating system, at least one appliance operating system that is independent from the primary user operating system, a second physical memory to be sequestered from the primary user operating system and an access violation monitor to restrict access from the at least one appliance operating system to the second physical memory, wherein the access violation monitor is to run only when the at least one appliance operating system is invoked and at least one appliance operating system is to be invoked only after the primary user operating system has been suspended to a standby state. | 10-02-2008 |
| 20080313489 | FLASH MEMORY-HOSTED LOCAL AND REMOTE OUT-OF-SERVICE PLATFORM MANAGEABILITY - A method, apparatus, and system are disclosed. In one embodiment, the method determines whether one or more manageability conditions are present in a computer system, and then invokes an out-of-service manageability remediation environment stored within a portion of a flash device in the computer system when one or more manageability conditions are present. | 12-18-2008 |
| 20090006848 | Secure credential management - Apparatus and methods associated with providing secure credential management are described. One apparatus embodiment includes a data store to store authentication data and an authentication supplicant (AS) logic to provide a response to an authentication communication (ACM) received from an authentication process. An authentication management (AM) logic may receive the ACM from a connection management (CM) logic associated with a host operating system (HOS), provide the ACM to the AS logic, and provide the response back to the CM logic. The apparatus may include a device management (DM) client logic to provide a secure connection to an operator DM server associated with the authentication process and to store authentication data provided by the operator DM server in the data store. The AS logic, AM logic, and DM logic may reside in firmware that is not accessible to the HOS. | 01-01-2009 |
| 20090089588 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING ANTI-THEFT SOLUTIONS TO A COMPUTING SYSTEM - A manageability engine (ME) may be used to authenticate a user for a computer system. A data collection module may be coupled to the ME to collect data (e.g., fingerprint image, facial images, speech, etc.) from a user. The ME processes the collected data to authenticate the user. If the authentication is successful, the system may boot, resume from a sleep state, or become re-accessible by the user; otherwise, the user is prevented from using the system or accessing data stored therein. | 04-02-2009 |
