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US 6,487,656 B1Granted
System and method for providing functionalities to system BIOS
AssigneePhoenix Technologies Ltd.
InventorsMyungseok Kim, Glenn E. Jystad
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Abstract
The present invention is a method and apparatus to provide functionalities to a system BIOS. The method comprises interfacing an interface module to the system BIOS, and receiving a request from the system BIOS to perform a task. System device information associated with the task is received from the system BIOS. The interface module translates the system device information to provide translated information. The translated information is then transferred to a corresponding module.
Claims27
A method to provide functionalities to a system BIOS, comprising:
- interfacing an interface module to the system BIOS;
- receiving a request from the system BIOS to perform a task;
- receiving the system device information associated with the task from system BIOS;
- translating, by the interface module, the system device information to provide translated information;
- and
- transferring the translated information to a corresponding module.
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A computer program product comprising:
- a computer usable medium having computer program code embodied therein to provide functionalities to a system BIOS, the computer program product having:
- computer readable program code to interface an interface module to the system BIOS;
- computer readable program code to receive a request from system BIOS to perform a task;
- computer readable program code to receive the system device information associated with the task from system BIOS;
- computer readable program code to translate the system device information to provide translated information;
- and
- computer readable program code to transfer the translated information to a corresponding module.
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A system comprising:
- a processor;
- and
- a memory coupled to the processor, the memory containing program code to provide functionalities to system BIOS, the program code, when executed by the processor, causes the processor to:
- interface an interface module to the system BIOS;
- receive a request from the system BIOS to perform a task;
- receive system device information associated with the task from system BIOS;
- cause the interface module to translate the system device information to provide translated information;
- and
- transfer the translated information to a corresponding module.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.