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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 22, 2019
Filed:
Mar. 15, 2016
Dell Products L.p., Round Rock, TX (US);
Sumanth Vidyadhara, Bangalor, IN;
Chandrasekhar Puthillathe, Bangalore, IN;
Aniruddha Herekar, Bangalore, IN;
Dell Products L.P., Round Rock, TX (US);
Abstract
Systems and methods are provided that may be implemented to securely load Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) images (e.g., UEFI Applications, UEFI Drivers, UEFI firmware volumes, etc.) onto an information handling system from an authenticated (e.g., OEM authenticated) hardware image source device or 'IO store' (e.g., such as USB device, network file system device, PCIe device, network storage, shared storage, dynamic RAM disk, etc.) based on a UEFI virtual device path that is mapped to an authenticated hardware device path that is established for the authenticated hardware image source device.