Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Preconfiguring hardware and speeding up server discovery prior to bios boot
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Application No.: US14328116Application Date: 2014-07-10
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Publication No.: US09965288B2Publication Date: 2018-05-08
- Inventor: Tao Wang , Scott Phuong , Lihfang Shen
- Applicant: Cisco Technology, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA San Jose
- Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA San Jose
- Agency: Edell, Shapiro & Finnan, LLC
- Main IPC: G06F9/44
- IPC: G06F9/44
Abstract:
Techniques are provided for preconfiguring hardware prior to BIOS boot up, and in particular, accessing a Basic Input Output System (BIOS) feature descriptor in the BIOS read only memory area, the BIOS feature descriptor comprising information associated with a BIOS of the server; and utilizing the BIOS feature descriptor, prior to boot up operations of the server, to configure hardware of the server.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160011879A1 PRECONFIGURING HARDWARE AND SPEEDING UP SERVER DISCOVERY PRIOR TO BIOS BOOT Public/Granted day:2016-01-14
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