Intel Corporation

Brett P Wang

John Charles Weast

Karunakara Kotary

Tao Zhao

Mohan J Kumar

Murugasamy K Nachimuthu

Ashok Raj

Sarathy Jayakumar

Ying Liu

Bin Yang

Nicholas J Adams

Di Zhang

Ruijia Li

Krishnakumar Narasimhan

Minqiang Wu

Zhuangzhi Li

Nicholas J Yoke

Young Guo

Kenny Chen

Zhi Jin

Edwin L Wang

Winters Zhang

Hongbing Zhang

Xinwu Liu

Genliu Xing

Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture perform an enhanced S3 protocol to update firmware with a Boot Script update are disclosed. An example apparatus includes a management agent to store a firmware update into memory; and request an operating system (OS) to enter into an S3 sleep state; the OS to, in response to the request from the management agent, enter into the S3 sleep state and trigger an interrupt; and a basic input/output system (BIOS) to, in response to the interrupt from the OS update a Boot Script according to the firmware update; and wake up the OS with a wake vector.

Methods and apparatus to perform an enhanced S3 protocol to update firmware with a boot script update

Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture to perform a pseudo-S3 protocol to update firmware and/or activate new firmware with a warm reset are disclosed. An example apparatus includes an advanced configuration and power interface (ACPI) to: initiate a pseudo-sleep event in response to identifying a firmware update; and assert a power button event, the power button event to cause an operating system (OS) to prepare to enter into a sleep state; a basic input/output system (BIOS) to: initiate a warm reset in response to the OS preparing to enter the sleep state, the warm reset to update firmware according to the firmware update; and transmit a wake vector to the OS to continue operation.

Methods and apparatus to perform a pseudo-S3 protocol to update firmware and/or activate new firmware with a warm reset

Systems and methods for determining a foreground application and at least one background application from multiple graphics applications executing within an execution environment are disclosed. Pixel data rendered by the foreground application may be displayed in the execution environment while a rendering thread of the background application may be paused.

Full screen processing in multi-application environments

A mechanism is described for facilitating dynamic capsule generation and recovery in computing environments according to one embodiment. A method of embodiments, as described herein, includes accessing a current firmware and a capsule driver binary file ('capsule file') from a storage device, and merging the current firmware with the capsule file and a capsule header into a capsule payload. The method may further include assigning a security protocol to the capsule payload to ensure a secured capsule payload, and storing the secured capsule payload at the storage device for subsequent updates.

Dynamic capsule generation and recovery in computing environments

Technologies for securely booting a computing device includes a security engine of the computing device that consecutively determines a hash value for each block of initial boot firmware and generates an aggregated hash value from the hash value determined for each of the blocks. A processor of the computing device determines whether the aggregated hash value matches a reference checksum value. Initialization of the processor is completed in response to a determination that the aggregated hash value matches the reference checksum value. In some embodiments, the security engine consecutively retrieves each block of the initial boot firmware from a memory of the computing device, stores each retrieved block in a secure memory of the security engine, and determines the hash value for each stored block. Each block stored in the secure memory is copied to a portion of a cache memory of the processor initialized as Cache as RAM.

Securely booting a computing device

Systems and methods are described herein to provide for improved hardware device connectivity. Other embodiments include apparatus and system for receiving messages from an operating system and sending messages to one or more hardware devices. Further embodiments include methods for receiving messages from an operating system regarding operations on a hardware device and responding to those messages. Other embodiments include methods for receiving interrupt messages and mapping those interrupt messages to hardware devices. Other embodiments are described and claimed.

Systems and methods for improved hardware device connectivity

Machine-readable media, methods, and apparatus are described. In some embodiments, a header policy for a packet to be transmitted through the network is defined based upon characteristics of the network and a header of the packet is compressed based upon whether the header policy indicates the header of the packet is to be compressed.

Header compress/decompress framework

A method and apparatus for low latency transport of signals. In some embodiments a method may include providing a buffer controller between two consecutive signal transmission processes between a host and a client to synchronize a write from a first of the two consecutive signal transmission processes and a read to a second of the of the two consecutive signal transmission processes, wherein the buffer controller includes a first buffer, a second buffer, and a first status list and a second status list that each provide an association status of the first buffer and the second buffer.

Method and system for low latency audio-visual transport

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Brett P Wang