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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Jul. 16, 2019

Filed:

May. 05, 2017
Applicant:

Dell Products L.p., Round Rock, TX (US);

Inventors:

Piyush Sharma, Round Rock, TX (US);

Eugene David Cho, Austin, TX (US);

Kiran George Vetteth, Round Rock, TX (US);

Murali K. Somarouthu, Austin, TX (US);

Michael Emery Brown, Austin, TX (US);

Brian L. Brelsford, Austin, TX (US);

Assignee:

Dell Products L.P., Round Rock, TX (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 11/14 (2006.01); G06F 9/4401 (2018.01); G06F 21/57 (2013.01); G06F 11/36 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 11/1417 (2013.01); G06F 9/4401 (2013.01); G06F 11/1451 (2013.01); G06F 11/1469 (2013.01); G06F 11/3604 (2013.01); G06F 21/572 (2013.01);
Abstract

In accordance with embodiments of the present disclosure, an information handling system may include a host system comprising a host system processor and a device coupled to the host system processor. The information handling system may also include a management controller communicatively coupled to the host system processor and configured to provide management of the information handling system via management traffic communicated between the management controller and a network external to the information handling system and perform runtime verification of a firmware image of the management controller by responsive to each particular read request of the firmware image during runtime of the firmware, verifying integrity of a respective block of the read request and responsive to determining the respective block is corrupted, causing a bootloader of the firmware to, on a subsequent boot of the firmware image, perform recovery of the firmware image.


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