Systems for selectively enabling and disabling hardware features

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 9400678
APP PUB NO 20140280815A1
SERIAL NO

13797809

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In one embodiment, a system includes a processor and logic integrated with and/or executable by the processor. The logic is adapted to: define a hardware feature policy for one or more hardware components of a system; and enable and/or disable one or more hardware features of one or more of the hardware components based on the hardware feature policy, wherein the hardware feature policy comprises instructions to enable and/or disable access to the one or most hardware features based on one or more criteria selected from a 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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  • INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Candelaria, Susan K Tucson, US 58 511
Paveza, John R Morgan Hill, US 40 689

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