Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Method, apparatus, and medium for using a stored pre-boot authentication password to skip a pre-boot authentication step
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Application No.: US15389329Application Date: 2016-12-22
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Publication No.: US10671731B2Publication Date: 2020-06-02
- Inventor: Taisuke Furuya
- Applicant: TOSHIBA CLIENT SOLUTIONS CO., LTD.
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: TOSHIBA CLIENT SOLUTIONS CO., LTD.
- Current Assignee: TOSHIBA CLIENT SOLUTIONS CO., LTD.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Rutan & Tucker, LLP
- Priority: com.zzzhc.datahub.patent.etl.us.BibliographicData$PriorityClaim@70042dbd
- Main IPC: G06F21/57
- IPC: G06F21/57 ; G06F21/32 ; G06F9/4401 ; G06F21/31 ; G06F11/14

Abstract:
According to one embodiment, an electronic apparatus includes a hardware processor. The hardware processor executes first authentication processing and second authentication processing when the electronic apparatus is powered on or rebooted. The hardware processor executes the first authentication processing using first data stored in the nonvolatile storage region after executing the second authentication processing in a case of executing the second authentication processing when the electronic apparatus is powered on or rebooted. The hardware processor deletes the first data from the nonvolatile storage region when setting of not executing the second authentication processing upon the electronic apparatus is powered on or rebooted is made.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170185782A1 ELECTRONIC APPARATUS, METHOD AND STORAGE MEDIUM Public/Granted day:2017-06-29
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