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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 01, 2019
Filed:
Mar. 19, 2015
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Karunakara Kotary, Portland, OR (US);
Vincent J. Zimmer, Federal Way, WA (US);
Scott D. Brenden, Hillsboro, OR (US);
Jose Benchimol, Haifa, IL;
Panner Kumar, Bangalore, IN;
Rajesh Poornachandran, Portland, OR (US);
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
A dynamic firmware module loader loads one of a plurality of a firmware contexts or modules as needed in a containerized environment for secure isolated execution. The modules, called applets, may be loaded and unloaded in a firmware context. The loader may use a hardware inter process communication channel (IPC) to communicate with the secure engine. The modules may be designed to implement specific features desired by basic input/output system vendors, without the use of a system management mode. Designed modules may provide necessary storage and I/O access driver capabilities to be run in trusted execution environment containers.