Patent application number | Description | Published |
20080294829 | Method And System Of Supporting Multi-Plugging In X8 And X16 PCI Express Slots - A card having a first device and a second device is plugged into a root port having a predefined root port width. The first device is trained and the device lane width is determined. If the root port width is greater than the device lane width then the root port is dynamically configured via hardware strapping to include a predefined number of adjacent ports with each port having a lane width equal to the device lane width. The root port is reset to force training of the first device and the second device. | 11-27-2008 |
20090113198 | Methods, Systems and Media for Configuring Boot Options - Implementations described herein generally provide methods of configuring boot options. One method may generally include receiving on a remote management information handling system (IHS), boot information relating to a remotely configured HIS, using the boot information on the remote management IHS to create boot options and sending the boot options from the remote management IHS to the remotely configured IHS. | 04-30-2009 |
20090217374 | License Scheme for Enabling Advanced Features for Information Handling Systems - A method for BIOS to pass license key information to a device via CLP interface during a power on self-test (POST). The license key may be stored in different locations within the information handling system. For example, the license key may be stored within a secure location on a BIOS flash chip, in which case the license key is maintained across BIOS updates. Alternately, the license key may be stored within motherboard persistent storage (such as an internal universal serial bus (USB) key that is provided on certain servers. Alternately, the license key may be stored on a central location on a network to which the information handling system is coupled. | 08-27-2009 |
20090327682 | System and Method for Transferring Configuration Information to an Embedded Device Using a Command Line Interface - A system and method is disclosed for transferring configuration information to an embedded device associated with an option ROM during those periods in which the option ROM is disabled. The method of the present invention involves the enumeration of PCI devices within the system and the determination of whether the PCI devices are associated with an option ROM and whether the option ROM is enabled. If the embedded device is associated with an option ROM and if the option ROM is not enabled, the option ROM is loaded to a shadow memory and the command-line interface of the option ROM is called to transfer configuration data to the embedded device. The option ROM is later removed from shadow memory to remove the footprint of the option ROM in shadow memory. | 12-31-2009 |
20100115257 | Systems and Methods to Provide Failover Support for Booting Embedded Hypervisor From an Internal Non-Volatile Memory Card - The present disclosure further relates to information handling systems with failover support for booting an embedded hypervisor, the information handling system. For example, an information handling system with failover support may comprise a processor; one or more applications configured to be executed, at least in part, by the processor; a memory communicatively coupled to the processor and comprising a basic input/output system (BIOS), the BIOS comprising a BIOS universal serial bus (USB) driver, the BIOS USB driver comprising a mass storage device driver; a primary internal embedded hypervisor non-volatile memory (NVM) card communicatively coupled to the memory, the first NVM card comprising a first bootable hypervisor image; and a back up internal embedded hypervisor NVM card communicatively coupled to the memory, the second NVM card comprising a second bootable hypervisor image. | 05-06-2010 |
20140204026 | Synchronizing A Cursor from a Managed System with a Cursor from a Remote System - A method includes receiving reports of the pointing device events occurring on a remote computer at a host computer and performing computations in the host computer based upon the mouse reports. The method includes generating screen images in the host computer based upon the computations, the screen images not containing images of a cursor representing locations pointed to by a pointing device of the host computer. The generated screen images are transmitted to the remote computer. In some embodiments, the reports may be received by a remote console controller. An information handling system includes boot firmware to set a mouse to operate in absolute mode under control of the boot firmware. An information handling system separately transmits to a remote console controller of the information handling system screen images without a cursor and cursor images. | 07-24-2014 |
20150193620 | System and Method for Managing UEFI Secure Boot Certificates - A service processor of an information handling system receives a Secure Boot database from a provisioning server coupled to the service processor by a data communication network. The Secure Boot database is stored at a memory device included at the service processor. The Secure Boot database is provided to a basic input output system (BIOS) at the information handling system in response to a request issued by intrinsic BIOS instructions executed during initialization of the information handling system. | 07-09-2015 |
20150363713 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR EXTENDING FACTORY MANUFACTURING MODE TO NETWORKING DEVICES - In accordance with embodiments of the present disclosure, an information handling system may include a processor, a first information handling resource communicatively coupled to the processor, and a second information handling resource for initializing one or more information handling resources of the information handling system. The second information handling resource may be configured to determine whether the information handling system is in a manufacturing mode and responsive to determining that the information handling system is in a manufacturing mode, expose an interface of the second information handling resource to the first information handling resource to enable the first information handling resource to perform one or more manufacturing mode-specific operations. | 12-17-2015 |