PROVISIONING AN UNKNOWN COMPUTER SYSTEM

Patent №

US 8,364,945

Granted

2013-01-29

Filed 2008

Owner

MICROSOFT CORPORATION

AI components

1

planning

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

12141925

A method of provisioning an unknown computer system is disclosed. The method includes detecting a computer system to be provisioned, determining that the computer system is unknown to a configuration management system, and identifying a global identifier and a digital certificate to be used to provision the computer system. The method further includes communicating the global identifier and the digital certificate from a network based boot strap server or from boot strap media to the computer system prior to loading an operating system onto the computer system.

AI classification

Planning1.00
Vision0.03
Evolutionary computation0.01
AI hardware0.00
Knowledge representation0.00
Machine learning0.00
Natural language0.00
Speech0.00

Ownership

MICROSOFT CORPORATION

assignment · 214320582

Assignors

WARD, DANIEL, SARDESAI, SHANTANU, MEDINA, KERWIN, CHINTALAPUDI, RAVIKIRAN

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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