Patent ID: 7016950

Claim:
One or more computer-readable media having stored thereon instructions that, when executed by one or more processors of a system, cause the one or more processors to: allow management devices corresponding to a plurality of management agents responsible for managing the system to access the system; and implement a controller to operate as a trusted third party mediating interaction among the plurality of management agents by assigning each of the plurality of management agents to a different one of a plurality of ownership domains and restricting the rights of each ownership domain in the system, wherein one of the plurality of ownership domains is a top-level ownership domain having a first set of rights, wherein each of the other ownership domains in the plurality of ownership domains has a second set of rights, and wherein the controller allows a device corresponding to any one of the other ownership domains to revoke the top-level ownership domain, and wherein the controller erases a system memory during the revocation process.