US 12,174,961 B2
Automated ephemeral context-aware device provisioning
John Henry Terpstra, Austin, TX (US); Jeroen Mackenbach, Roosendaal (NL); and Anantha K Boyapalle, Cedar Park, TX (US)
Assigned to Dell Products L.P., Round Rock, TX (US)
Filed by Dell Products L.P., Round Rock, TX (US)
Filed on Jun. 14, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/839,711.
Application 17/839,711 is a continuation in part of application No. 17/577,854, filed on Jan. 18, 2022, granted, now 11,983,275.
Prior Publication US 2023/0229779 A1, Jul. 20, 2023
Int. Cl. G06F 21/57 (2013.01); G06F 9/4401 (2018.01)
CPC G06F 21/575 (2013.01) [G06F 9/4406 (2013.01); G06F 21/572 (2013.01); G06F 2221/033 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An information handling system, comprising:
a processor; and
a memory device storing code that when executed causes the processor to perform operations, the operations including:
determining a personality flag value during a boot process of the information handling system;
executing, responsive to detecting that the information handling system entered a secure environment and based on the personality flag value indicates a managed ephemeral context-aware device, a system update handler configured for discovering and connecting to a control plane; and
provisioning by the system update handler a secure ephemeral operating system, wherein the provisioning of the secure ephemeral operating system includes receiving an image of the secure ephemeral operating system from the control plane responsive to a secure profile and validating the image prior to loading the secure ephemeral operating system to a random access memory of the information handling system and overriding an installed operating system while the information handling system is in the secure environment.