Dell Products Inc.

Isaac S Hsu

Adolfo Sandor Montero

Myungkee Yoon

Franklin Chuang

Xiaomei Zhu

Lip Vui Simon Kan

Mick Chiu

Systems and methods described herein provide a haptic feedback system and method for touch-based function row keyboards that leverages existing components on laptop computers to provide tactile feedback for users when a touch function row key is pressed. According to one embodiment, an Information Handling System (IHS) includes a keyboard with a touch function row having multiple touch keys, a mouse pad with one or more electro-acoustic transducers, and executable instructions that receive a message indicating that one of the touch keys of the touch function row has been pressed. In response to the received message, the instructions actuate at least one of the electro-acoustic transducers to provide haptic feedback for the one pressed touch key.

Haptic feedback system and method for touch function row keyboards

An information handling system may include an embedded controller, a serial peripheral interface (SPI) read-only memory (ROM) device to store a first basic input/output system (BIOS) firmware for the information handling system, and a non-volatile memory device includes a boot partition to store a second BIOS firmware. The embedded controller detects a failure during a boot process, switches a first SPI of a chipset from the SPI ROM to the embedded controller and executes the second BIOS firmware from the non-volatile memory device via a sideband access of the non-volatile memory device.

System and method to run basic input/output system code from a non-volatile memory express device boot partition

A mobile device receives a request for diagnosis from an information handling system in a service mode, diagnoses the information handling system in response to the request, and executes a routine to troubleshoot the information handling system based on results of the diagnosing the information handling system. The mobile device accesses the information handling system at a basic input/output system level while executing the routine to troubleshoot.

Device and method for remote management of information handling systems

An information handling system includes a BIOS ROM that stores a first firmware volume of BIOS code. A non-volatile memory device includes a first boot partition that stores a second firmware volume of the BIOS code. A processor executes the first and second firmware volumes during a Pre-EFI Initialization phase of a Unified Extensible Firmware Interface boot process.

System and method to install firmware volumes from NVMe boot partition

Systems and methods for reducing the power consumption of an Information Handling System (IHS). In some embodiments, an IHS may be configured to: in response to a request to operate in static display mode: (a) render static content on a display, (b) allow the processor to enter standby by notifying an OS that the display is off while keeping the display on, and (c) maintain the display refreshed with the static content; while in static mode and in response to a command that requires updating the static content, wake up the processor and generate updated static content using the processor; and after generating the updated static content: render the updated static content on the display while the processor is awake, allow the processor to re-enter standby by notifying the OS that the display is off while keeping the display on, and maintain the display refreshed with the updated static content.

Reducing the power consumption of an information handling system capable of handling both dynamic and static display applications

An information handling system a first controller and a solid state drive. The first controller receives an indication that a forced shutdown of the information handling system has been initiated, and triggers a cache flush command in response to receiving the indication that the forced shutdown has been initiated. The solid state drive includes a memory to store data, a cache to buffer data prior to writing the data in the memory, and a second controller. The second controller receives the cache flush command, and flushes the cache by writing the data in the cache to the memory in response to the cache flush command being received.

System and method for preventing solid state drive corruption after dirty shutdown power loss

A keyboard backlight event messaging system includes a backlit keyboard that includes a plurality of keys and a plurality of light emitting subsystems. Each respective light emitting subsystem of the plurality of light emitting subsystems is configured to backlight a respective key of the plurality of keys. The keyboard backlight event messaging system also includes a computing system that is coupled to the backlit keyboard. The computing system includes a controller that is coupled to the backlit keyboard and that is configured, in response to an event occurring in the computing system, to receive event messaging information that is associated with the event and activate a subset of the plurality of light emitting subsystems according to an event messaging sequence defined by the event messaging information in order to backlight a respective subset of the plurality of keys to provide an event message.

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Isaac S Hsu