Patent ID: 8375220
Filing Date: 2013-02-12
Classification: G06F,H04L,H04W

Abstract:
1. A method, comprising: receiving, at a computer, a wake-up message from a remote mobile device via a short message service (SMS); authenticating, at the computer, the wake-up message so as to authenticate a source of the wake-up message; providing, at the computer, a BIOS boot policy that specifies different security protocols, including different types of authentication and encryption, for handling access attempts from different sources; querying the BIOS boot policy for an appropriate security policy among the different security protocols for handling the remote mobile device, based on the authenticated source of the wake-up message; receiving, from the BIOS boot policy the appropriate security policy, including the types of authentication and decryption, to be applied to the source of the wake-up message; requesting, via the SMS, a BIOS boot password from the remote mobile device; decrypting and authenticating the BIOS boot password that is received, via the SMS, from the remote mobile device, wherein the BIOS executes when the authentication of the received BIOS boot password succeeds; requesting, via the SMS, a login password from the remote mobile device; and decrypting the login password that is received, via the SMS, from the remote mobile device.