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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:
Jan. 11, 2022

Filed:

Aug. 03, 2018
Applicant:

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

Inventors:

Christopher H Stewart, Spring, TX (US);

Valiuddin Ali, Spring, TX (US);

Richard Bramley, Mansfield, MA (US);

Lan Wang, Spring, TX (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/44 (2018.01); G06F 8/65 (2018.01); G06F 9/4401 (2018.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 8/65 (2013.01); G06F 9/4401 (2013.01);
Abstract

In an example implementation according to aspects of the present disclosure, a method may include receiving by a controller a BIOS image, extracting a current manufacturing programming mode state corresponding to a computer system. A BIOS personality of the BIOS image is evaluated, wherein the BIOS personality is based on a differentiation of hardware and software functionality. Based on the current manufacturing programming state and the BIOS personality, a compatibility with the computer system is determined. Based on the compatibility, the BIOS image is written to non-volatile memory.


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