US Patent Issued to Dell Products on June 23 for "Dynamic transitioning among device security states based on server availability" (Texas, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,239, issued on June 23, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Dynamic transitioning among device security states based on server availability" was invented by Mukund P. Khatri (Austin, Texas), Senthilkumar Ponnuswamy (San Jose, Calif.) and Eugene David Cho (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are provided for dynamic transitioning among device security states based on server availability. One method comprises configuring a processing device to be in a first one of multiple security states, wherein the first security state comprises user authentication factors administered by one or more servers; t...