Methods for selectively enabling and disabling hardware features
US9400679B2 · kind B2 · utility
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| Filing date | Oct 25, 2013 |
| Grant date | Jul 26, 2016 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Jun 17, 2034 |
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- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04L41/02
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
In one embodiment, a method includes defining a hardware feature policy for one or more hardware components of a system; and enabling and/or disabling one or more hardware features of one or more of the hardware components based on the hardware feature policy, where the hardware feature policy comprises instructions to enable and/or disable access to the one or more hardware features based on one or more criteria selected from the group consisting of: a feature access schedule; a volume feature access group; a job feature access group; and an user feature access group.
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