Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Thorley Industries, LLC

Rochak Chadha

Henry F Thorne

Robert D Daley

Richard Juchniewicz

Justin Cole

Gregory J Zavertnik

Chad Johnathan Staller

David Szakelyhidi

Parker Trow

Sun Jan Huang

Robert Pike

Cheng-Yi Hung

Techniques are described herein in which boot firmware validated by secure flash memory validates read-only portions of firmware stored by the firmware or a downloaded image of the read-only portions. The secure flash memory validates a portion of the firmware, which includes the boot firmware and a reference hash of the read-only portions, by comparing a calculated hash of the portion and the reference hash of the portion. The boot firmware initiates a boot of the firmware and validates the read-only portions (or the downloaded image of the read-only portions) by comparing a calculated hash of the read-only portions (or a calculated hash of the downloaded image) and the reference hash of the read-only portions. The boot firmware completes the boot of the firmware based at least on the read-only portions (or the downloaded image) being validated.

Validating read-only portions of firmware or a downloaded image thereof by boot firmware validated by secure flash memory

A child seat or child restraining system for securing a child to a vehicle seat, and method of installing the car seat are provided. The child seat, which is configured to be secured to a seat of a vehicle, includes: a seat base secured to the seat of the vehicle; a child receiving portion supported by the seat base; and a belt tensioning system incorporated into the seat base. The belt tensioning system is configured to receive a belt that couples the seat base to the seat of the vehicle. The child seat also includes a controller operatively connected to the belt tensioning system and configured to automatically actuate the belt tensioning system. The belt tensioning system may be configured to drive the at least one belt in a pay-in direction to apply tension to the at least one belt.

Child restraint system with user interface

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