Patent ID: 9424434
Filing Date: 2016-08-23
CPC Classification: G06F

Claim Text:
1. A personal electronic device, comprising: a user-data storage medium; an internet-communication interface with an internet-communication address of the personal electronic device; a Basic Input/Output System memory; and a processing unit, executing the codes contained in the Basic Input/Output System memory in accordance with anti-theft software when the internet-communication address of the personal electronic device is detected by a server through the internet and the server determines that the internet-communication address has been listed in a lost list, wherein by executing the codes contained in the Basic Input/Output System memory a medium password for the user storage medium is set and the personal electronic device is prohibited from use, wherein: the anti-theft software is operated in an Operating System of the personal electronic device and is activated when the internet-communication address of the personal electronic device is detected by the server and the server determines that the internet-communication address has been listed in the lost list; a System Management Interrupt is called by the anti-theft software to operate a Basic Input/Output System of the personal electronic device to set the medium password; the Basic Input/Output System further loads the medium password into the Basic Input/Output System memory which is also loaded into the user storage medium; and the medium password contained in the Basic Input/Output System memory is to be read out by a recovery machine of a vendor of the personal electronic device.