Patent ID: 11863691
Assignee: DELL PRODUCTS L.P.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 9:
10. An IHS (Information Handling System) comprising:
a plurality of lockable devices;
a persistent memory, wherein during factory provisioning of the IHS an inventory certificate is uploaded to the persistent memory, wherein the inventory certificate includes an inventory that identifies the plurality of lockable devices as factory-installed components of the IHS, and wherein the inventory certificate further includes a plurality of encrypted codes for accessing the factory-installed lockable devices;
one or more processors; and
one or more memory devices coupled to the processors, the memory devices storing computer-readable instructions that, upon execution by the processors, cause the IHS to:
retrieve the inventory certificate stored to the persistent memory during factory provisioning of the IHS;
collecting an inventory of detected lockable devices of the IHS;
compare the collected inventory of detected lockable devices against the inventory from the inventory certificate in order to validate the IHS is operating using only the factory-installed lockable devices; and
validate that the encrypted codes included in the inventory certificate are decipherable using one or more private keys of the customer such that the deciphered codes provide access to the lockable devices.