American Megatrends International, LLC

American Megatrends, Inc.

Howelle Blaine Summers

Stefano Righi

Madhan B Santharam

Presanna Raman

Feng Li

A firmware provides a setup browser that generates a setup menu. An internal forms representation of setup data for rendering the setup menu is converted to markup language (ML) setup data. The ML setup data is provided to an application that provides a GUI for defining a modified setup UI for the firmware. The application provides a graphical, drag-and-drop, WYSIWYG, UI through which a user can edit existing forms and controls, create new forms and controls, and specify default values and other properties. When a user modifies the setup menu using the application, customized ML setup data is generated that defines the modified setup UI. The customized ML setup data is used to create setup data that is stored in a firmware device for use by the setup browser with the internal format representation of setup data to render the modified setup UI.

Graphical customization of a firmware-provided user interface (UI)

Technologies are disclosed that allow the firmware of a remotely located target device to be configured. The target device can receive a command to reboot into a special remote setup mode for remote configuration. Once in the remote setup mode, the firmware listens for and can respond to HTTP requests for information on configurable data and instructions to update the configurable data.

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Decatur, GA, United States of America

Howelle Blaine Summers