Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Technologies for secure hybrid standby power management
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Application No.: US15387214Application Date: 2016-12-21
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Publication No.: US10437310B2Publication Date: 2019-10-08
- Inventor: Karunakara Kotary , Ashish Hira , Krishnakumar Narasimhan
- Applicant: Intel Corporation
- Applicant Address: US CA Santa Clara
- Assignee: Intel Corporation
- Current Assignee: Intel Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Santa Clara
- Agency: Barnes & Thornburg LLP
- Main IPC: G06F1/32
- IPC: G06F1/32 ; G06F1/3234 ; G06F9/4401 ; G06F1/3228

Abstract:
Technologies for secure hybrid standby power management include a computing device with a processor supporting low-power idle standby. An operating system writes a power management sleep request, such as an ACPI S3 request, to a power management control register of the computing device. The processor traps the write to the power management control register and executes a firmware sleep mapper that causes the processor to enter an idle standby power state such as S0ix. The firmware sleep mapper may be included in a firmware isolated memory region. The address of the firmware sleep mapper may be included in a model-specific register of the processor. The processor may verify the firmware sleep mapper before execution. In response to a wake event, the processor resumes the firmware sleep mapper, which switches the processor to real mode and jumps to a waking vector of the operating system. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180173294A1 TECHNOLOGIES FOR SECURE HYBRID STANDBY POWER MANAGEMENT Public/Granted day:2018-06-21
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