# US 10,768,948 B2 · Apparatus and method for dynamic modification of machine branding of information handling systems based on hardware inventory > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 10,768,948 B2 - Document ID: US10768948B2 - Status: Granted - Kind: B2 - Application number: 16/042,217 - Filed: 2018-07-23 - Published: 2020-01-23 - Granted: 2020-09-08 - Earliest claimed: 2018-07-23 - Assignees: Dell Products L.P. - Applicants: Dell Products, LP - Inventors: Timothy M. Lambert; Eugene Cho; Pablo R. Arias - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US10768948B2 ## CPC - G06F 9/44542: {Retargetable} - G06F 9/4411: {Configuring for operating with peripheral devices; Loading of device drivers} - G06F 13/102: {where the program performs an interfacing function, e.g. device driver (G06F13/105 takes precedence; contention policies within device drivers G06F9/4881; scheduling within device drivers G06F9/52)} - G06F 16/24569: {Query processing with adaptation to specific hardware, e.g. adapted for using GPUs or SSDs} - G06F 9/4401: Bootstrapping (security arrangements therefor G06F21/57) - G06F: ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING (computer systems based on specific computational models G06N) ## Abstract An apparatus executes a boot operation, and determines a planar type associated with a motherboard. The apparatus queries an electronic database for the planar type associated with the motherboard, and identifies a branding identity that is electronically associated with the planar type. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A system comprising: a hardware processor; and a memory device storing instructions that when executed cause the hardware processor to perform operations, the operations including: executing a boot operation; determining a planar type associated with a motherboard; querying an electronic database for the planar type associated with the motherboard, the electronic database having entries that electronically associate branding identities to planar types including the planar type associated with the motherboard; and identifying a branding identity of the branding identities in the electronic database that is electronically associated with the planar type. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The system of claim 1, wherein the operations further include determining a model number that is electronically associated with the planar type associated with the motherboard. ### Claim 3 (depends on 1) The system of claim 1, wherein the operations further include retrieving a planar type minor. ### Claim 4 (depends on 3) The system of claim 3, wherein the operations further include determining the planar type based on the planar type minor. ### Claim 5 (depends on 1) The system of claim 1, wherein the operations further include retrieving a planar type major. ### Claim 6 (depends on 5) The system of claim 5, wherein the operations further include determining the planar type based on the planar type major. ### Claim 7 (depends on 1) The system of claim 1, wherein the operations further include determining the planar type based on a value of a serial peripheral interface obtained from an operating system. ### Claim 8 A method of dynamically branding an information handling system, the method comprising: executing, by the information handling system, a boot operation; determining, by the information handling system, during the boot operation, a planar type minor and a planar type major associated with a motherboard installed within the information handling system; querying, by the information handling system, an electronic database for the planar type minor associated with the motherboard, the electronic database having entries that electronically associate branding identities and planar types including the planar type minor associated with the motherboard; and identifying one of the branding identities in the electronic database that is electronically associated with the planar type minor. ### Claim 9 (depends on 8) The method of claim 8, further comprising determining a model number that is electronically associated with the planar type minor associated with the motherboard. ### Claim 10 (depends on 8) The method of claim 8, further comprising retrieving the planar type minor. ### Claim 11 (depends on 8) The method of claim 8, further comprising extracting the planar type minor from a value of a restore Serial Peripheral Interface. ### Claim 12 (depends on 8) The method of claim 8, further comprising retrieving the planar type major. ### Claim 13 (depends on 11) The method of claim 11, further comprising reading a value of a Serial Peripheral Interface as the planar type minor. ### Claim 14 (depends on 13) The method of claim 13, wherein if the value of the restore Serial Peripheral Interface matches the value of the Serial Peripheral Interface, then determining the planar type minor is a matching value between the value of the restore Serial Peripheral Interface and the value of the Serial Peripheral Interface. ### Claim 15 An apparatus storing instructions that when executed cause a hardware processor to perform operations, the operations comprising: executing a boot operation by an information handling system; determining, during the boot operation, a planar type minor and a planar type major associated with a motherboard; constructing a planar type based on the planar type minor and the planar type major; querying a branding database for the planar type constructed based on the planar type minor and the planar type major, the electronic database electronically associating branding identities and planar types including the planar type constructed based on the planar type minor and the planar type major; and identifying a brand of the branding identities in the electronic database that is electronically associated with the planar type constructed based on the planar type minor and the planar type major. ### Claim 16 (depends on 15) The apparatus of claim 15, wherein the operations further include retrieving the planar type minor. ### Claim 17 (depends on 15) The apparatus of claim 15, wherein the operations further include constructing the planar type once per the boot operation. ### Claim 18 (depends on 15) The apparatus of claim 15, wherein the operations further include holding the information handling system in an S5 power state while the planar type is being constructed based on the planar type minor and the planar type major. ### Claim 19 (depends on 15) The apparatus of claim 15, wherein the operations further include reading a value of a restore Serial Peripheral Interface. ### Claim 20 (depends on 19) The apparatus of claim 19, wherein the operations further include: reading a value of a Serial Peripheral Interface; determining a matching value between the value of the restore Serial Peripheral Interface and the value of a Serial Peripheral Interface; and assigning the planar type minor to the matching value between the value of the restore Serial Peripheral Interface and the value of a Serial Peripheral Interface.