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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 19, 2021
Filed:
Feb. 17, 2016
Dell Products, L.p., Round Rock, TX (US);
Satyajit Dipakbhai Desai, Round Rock, TX (US);
Sanjeev Dambal, Austin, TX (US);
Krishna P. Mohan, Austin, TX (US);
Sruthi Reddy Mothukupally, Round Rock, TX (US);
Mark W. Shutt, Austin, TX (US);
Wayne R. Weilnau, Round Rock, TX (US);
Dell Products, L.P., Round Rock, TX (US);
Abstract
Systems and methods for enabling license management in pre-boot environments are described. In some embodiments, a method may include: loading, by a Basic System Input/Output (BIOS) of an Information Handling System (IHS), prior to the booting of any Operating System (OS) by the IHS, a license manager Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) driver; and executing, by the BIOS, a command received from a component or device coupled to the IHS following a license management protocol provided by the UEFI driver, where the command is to obtain or verify license data.