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20080270652 | System and method of tamper-resistant control - A method of tamper-resistant configuration control for a system, the method comprising reading a flag from a memory of an electronic device, the flag indicating an enable/disable state of at least one component device of the electronic device, setting a register in memory to a disable state for the at least one component device in response to the flag indicating a disabled state for the at least one component device, and locking the register. | 10-30-2008 |
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20090116139 | Hard disk drive protection system and method - A hard disk drive protection system comprises a sensor configured to detect an impending shock event and a hard drive protection module configured to determine whether to issue a fast park command for a hard disk drive in response to detecting the impending shock event based on a permissible quantity of fast park cycles for the hard disk drive. | 05-07-2009 |
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20130154551 | CHARGING PORT - A computing system including a port to provide power to a portable device. The power state of the computing system is determined and the type of charging port to provide can be based on the power state of the computing system. | 06-20-2013 |
20140201743 | VIRTUALIZED DEVICE CONTROL IN COMPUTER SYSTEMS - Virtual device control in a computer system is described. Examples include: obtaining a device configuration policy from firmware in the computer system, the device configuration policy defining global access permissions to at least one embedded device in the computer system applied at boot time. Obtaining a virtual device configuration policy established for at least one of a selected user or a selected virtual machine (VM), the virtual device configuration policy defining additional access permissions to the at least one embedded device. Establishing a virtual hardware definition for an instance of the selected VM executing on the computer system based on the global access permissions and the additional access permissions. | 07-17-2014 |