Method and system for embedded, automated, component-level control of computer systems and other complex systems

摘要

A method and system for protecting and controlling personal computers (PCs), components installed in or attached to PCs, and other electronic, mechanical, and electromechanical devices and systems. An exemplary embodiment of the system includes a server running on a remote computer and hardware-implemented agents embedded within the circuitry that controls the various devices within a PC. The agents intercept all communications to and from the devices into which they are embedded, passing the communications when authorized to do so, and blocking communications when not authorized, effectively disabling the devices. Embedded agents are continuously authorized from the remote server computer by handshake operations implemented as communications messages.