| Patent Number |
Title Of Patent |
Date Issued |
| 7366891 |
Methods and apparatus to provide dual-mode drivers in processor systems |
April 29, 2008 |
| Methods and apparatus to provide dual-mode drivers in a processor system are disclosed. An example method disclosed herein comprises including operating system (OS) agnostic mode services that are available during an OS agnostic mode to allow a single set of drivers to be used during boo |
| 7349991 |
Host computer using basic input and output system to process control command received from a rem |
March 25, 2008 |
| A technique for providing communication between two computers through a network in a way to allow one computer to control the other. |
| 7305544 |
Interleaved boot block to support multiple processor architectures and method of use |
December 4, 2007 |
| A flash memory has an interleaved boot block compatible with multiple processor architectures. The interleaved boot block may include one boot block compatible with a first CPU architecture and another boot block compatible with a second CPU architecture. These two boot blocks may be |
| 7299354 |
Method to authenticate clients and hosts to provide secure network boot |
November 20, 2007 |
| A method for authenticating clients and boot server hosts to provide a secure network boot environment. Messages are exchanged between a client and a boot server or authentication server proxy for the boot server during pre-boot operations of the client to authentic the boot server and |
| 7228263 |
Method for representing root busses using object oriented abstractions |
June 5, 2007 |
| A method for representing root busses and their subordinate bus configurations using an object oriented abstraction scheme that enables various system components to communication with peripheral devices attached to the root busses and their subordinate busses without requiring specif |
| 7203767 |
System processing data packets received from remote host to control system operation according t |
April 10, 2007 |
| A technique for providing communication between two computers through a network in a way to allow one computer to control the other. |
| 7124226 |
Method or apparatus for establishing a plug and play (PnP) communication channel via an abstract |
October 17, 2006 |
| A method and system for accessing devices through use of an abstraction layer interface that "hides" the access methods from components accessing the devices, such as device drivers and OPROMs. The abstraction layer interface includes a set of resource access methods and a database c |
| 7117353 |
Methods and apparatus to enable console redirection in a multiple execution environment |
October 3, 2006 |
| Methods and apparatus to enable console redirection in a multiple execution environment are disclosed. In an example method, at least one periodic interrupt in a first basic input/output system (BIOS) execution environment of a local console is initiated. Data associated with a secon |
| 7055024 |
Computer system component initialization using a BIOS formal hardware language to represent the |
May 30, 2006 |
| A BIOS system and method to initialize the platform hardware components of a computer system. An object oriented abstraction of each hardware component, the features of the hardware component to be initialized, and the initialization setting for each feature according to a common syntax |
| 6999995 |
Console redirection system for remotely controlling operation of devices on a host computer if d |
February 14, 2006 |
| A technique for providing communication between two computers through a network in a way to allow one computer to control the other. |
| 6748423 |
Remote control of a linked computer |
June 8, 2004 |
| Techniques for using a controlling computer to control another computer with special instruction package prior to launch of the operating system in the controlled computer. For example, a method includes operating the package prior to running the OS in the controlled computer, using the |
| 6721868 |
Redirecting memory accesses for headless systems |
April 13, 2004 |
| Redirection of accesses to non-existent memory is instead sent to a virtual buffer. The virtual buffer may be implemented in headless systems which include no video buffer. Console redirection may use the virtual buffer to display information about the headless system. Accesses to the |
| 6609151 |
System for configuring a computer with or without an operating system to allow another computer |
August 19, 2003 |
| A technique for providing communication between two computers through a network in a way to allow one computer to control the other. |
| 6550006 |
Method and apparatus to perform a remote boot |
April 15, 2003 |
| A method comprises reading a remote boot signal and a program type signal from a memory of a computer system. The remote boot signal and program type signal are written by way of an external channel. A program identified by the program type signal is booted. |
