Trusted Port Based Communication Queues for Secure Runtime Device Specific Execution
AssigneeDell Products L.P.
InventorsSagar Alatgi, Gowrishankar Rudraprakash, Shekar Babu Suryanarayana
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Abstract
A firmware management operation. The firmware management operation includes providing an information handling system with a distributed BIOS; identifying device specific data associated with a device of the information handling system; enumerating a trusted port via a trusted queue management operation; and, authorizing device specific communication via the trusted port, the device specific communication using a device-specific buffer handling operation.
Claims20
A computer-implementable method for performing a firmware management operation, comprising:
- providing an information handling system with a distributed BIOS;
- identifying device specific data associated with a device of the information handling system;
- enumerating a trusted port via a trusted queue management operation;
- and,
- authorizing device specific communication via the trusted port, the device specific communication using a device-specific buffer handling operation.
A system comprising:
- a processor;
- a data bus coupled to the processor;
- and
- a non-transitory, computer-readable storage medium embodying computer program code, the non-transitory, computer-readable storage medium being coupled to the data bus, the computer program code interacting with a plurality of computer operations and comprising instructions executable by the processor and configured for:
- providing an information handling system with a distributed BIOS;
- identifying device specific data associated with a device of the information handling system;
- enumerating a trusted port via a trusted queue management operation;
- and,
- authorizing device specific communication via the trusted port, the device specific communication using a device-specific buffer handling operation.
A non-transitory, computer-readable storage medium embodying computer program code, the computer program code comprising computer executable instructions configured for:
- providing an information handling system with a distributed BIOS;
- identifying device specific data associated with a device of the information handling system;
- enumerating a trusted port via a trusted queue management operation;
- and,
- authorizing device specific communication via the trusted port, the device specific communication using a device-specific buffer handling operation.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.