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Patent No.:

US 10747873 B1

PDFFull Text
Expired
Date of Patent:
Aug. 18, 2020

Filed:

Jan. 26, 2016

System management mode privilege architecture

Applicant:

Hewlett-packard Development Company, L.p., Houston, TX (US);

Inventors:

Richard A. Bramley, Jr., Mansfield, MA (US);

David Plaquin, Bristol, GB;

Maugan Villatel, Bristol, GB;

Jeffrey K. Jeansonne, Houston, TX (US);

Assignee:

Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Spring, TX (US);

Attorney:

HPI Patent Department

Primary Examiner:

Jeffrey C Pwu

Assistant Examiner:

Ali H Cheema

Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/53 (2013.01); G06F 21/55 (2013.01); G06F 21/57 (2013.01); G06F 21/62 (2013.01); G06F 21/74 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/53 (2013.01); G06F 21/57 (2013.01); G06F 21/577 (2013.01); G06F 21/629 (2013.01); G06F 21/6218 (2013.01); G06F 21/74 (2013.01); G06F 2221/2141 (2013.01); G06F 2221/2149 (2013.01);
Abstract

In one example, a system for a system management mode (SMM) privilege architecture includes a computing device comprising: a first portion of SMM instructions to set up a number of resources and implement a privilege architecture for the SMM of a computing device and a second portion of SMM instructions to execute a number of functions during the SMM of the computing device, wherein the privilege architecture assigns the first portion of SMM instructions to a first privilege level and assigns the second portion of SMM instructions to a second privilege level.

Find Patent Forward Citations

Bramley, Jr., Richard. (2020). System management mode privilege architecture (U.S. Patent No. 10747873). U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. https://idiyas.com/patent/badge/10747873

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