US Patent Issued to Dell Products on July 28 for "Device onboarding in distributed systems using meta payloads" (Massachusetts, Ohio, New Hampshire Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,695,615, issued on July 28, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Device onboarding in distributed systems using meta payloads" was invented by Bradley K. Goodman (Nashua, N.H.), Joseph Caisse (Burlington, Mass.), James Daniel Harms (Worthington, Ohio) and John Jian Li (Westford, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for managing endpoint devices are disclosed. The endpoint devices may be managed by onboarding them. To onboard the endpoint devices, ownership vouchers may include information that directs the endpoint device to a meta payload that contains a link to a bootable installer and/or disk image...