Apparatus and method capable of secure wireless configuration and provisioning
First Claim
1. An apparatus platform, comprising:
- an RFID tag interfaced with said apparatus, said RFID tag enables wireless provisioning and configuration of said apparatus, wherein after an initial writing said reader then locks said RFID tag from receiving any further RF interface commands, thereby restricting access to RFID tag information to the platform itself.
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Abstract
An embodiment of the present invention provides an apparatus, comprising an RFID tag interfaced with the apparatus, the RFID tag enables wireless provisioning and configuration of the apparatus and may be a passive read/write RFID tag. The apparatus may be, in one embodiment, a platform such as a client or server and the passive RFID tag may be interfaced with the platform such that the tag'"'"'s EEPROM can also be read from or written to by the platform using a wired serial connection. The apparatus may further comprise a host processor with an operating system (OS) and an embedded microcontroller, the embedded microcontroller may have access to dynamic and non-volatile memory capable of operating independently of the host processor and OS and with direct access to a network interface, wherein the RFID tag may be read from or written to by either a RFID reader or the platform via a direct connection to the embedded processor.
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1. An apparatus platform, comprising:
an RFID tag interfaced with said apparatus, said RFID tag enables wireless provisioning and configuration of said apparatus, wherein after an initial writing said reader then locks said RFID tag from receiving any further RF interface commands, thereby restricting access to RFID tag information to the platform itself. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14)
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15. A method of wirelessly provisioning and configuring an apparatus platform, comprising:
interfacing an RFID tag with said apparatus, said RFID tag enabling wireless provisioning and configuration of said apparatus, further comprising locking said RFID tag from receiving any further RF interface commands after an initial writing by said reader thereby restricting access to RFID tag information to the platform itself. - View Dependent Claims (16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28)
- 29. An article comprising a storage medium having stored thereon instructions, that, when executed by a computing platform, results in wirelessly provisioning and configuring an apparatus by interfacing an RFID tag with said apparatus, said RFID tag enabling wireless provisioning and configuration of said apparatus and locking said RFID tag from receiving any further RF interface commands after an initial writing by said reader thereby restricting access to RFID tag information to the platform itself.
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35. An apparatus platform, comprising:
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an RFID tag interfaced with said apparatus, said RFID tag enables wireless provisioning and configuration of said apparatus; and an embedded processor having direct access to said RFID tag apparatus, wherein after an initial writing said reader then locks said RFID tag from receiving any further RF interface commands, thereby restricting access to RFID tag information to the platform itself. - View Dependent Claims (36, 37, 38, 39)
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