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Bios-based multi-user management method and system

AssigneeInspur Suzhou Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd.

InventorsShuaishuai Jia, Daotong Li

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Abstract

A Basic Input Output System (BIOS)-based multi-user management method and system. The method includes: identifying states of multiple users of a current BIOS to find a user whose state is an enable state; finding a Non-Volatile Random Access Memory (NVRAM) corresponding to the user in the enable state, and reading BIOS configuration parameter information of the user in the enable state; monitoring a hot key boot phase of a BIOS startup process to determine whether there is a key action at the hot key boot phase; and when there is no key action, performing a manipulation to configure the current BIOS with the read BIOS configuration parameter information of the user in the enable state, thereby effectively configuring the BIOS for the multiple users, and retaining more customized parameters in BIOS information. Therefore, a server becomes a diversely used terminal device more easily.

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Dependent claims

A Basic Input Output System (BIOS)-based multi-user management method, comprising the following steps:

identifying states of multiple users of a current BIOS in a restart process of a server to find a user whose state is an enable state;
finding a Non-Volatile Random Access Memory (NVRAM) corresponding to the user in the enable state according to a correspondence correlation table between the user and the NVRAM, and reading BIOS configuration parameter information of the user in the enable state from the NVRAM;
in response to the BIOS configuration parameter information of the user in the enable state being read, monitoring a hot key boot phase of a BIOS startup process to determine whether there is a key action at the hot key boot phase;
in response to there being the key action at the hot key boot phase, performing a first manipulation to enter an interface matched with the key action;
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in response to there being no key action at the hot key boot phase, performing a second manipulation to configure the current BIOS with the BIOS configuration parameter information of the user in the enable state.

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Application: 17/789,380Filed 27 Oct 2020
Priority: CN 202010094702.616 Feb 2020
Published: US 2023/0040962 A19 Feb 2023
Granted: 20 Feb 2024
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification5 codes

G06F 9/4401
Arrangements for executing specific programs: bootstrapping
G06F 21/575
Certifying or maintaining trusted computer platforms, e.g. secure boots or power-downs, version controls, system software checks, secure updates…:…
G06F 9/4451
Configuring for program initiating, e.g. using registry, configuration files: user profiles; Roaming
G06F 21/31
Authentication, i.e. establishing the identity or authorisation of security principals: user authentication

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