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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:
Jun. 06, 2023

Filed:

Jul. 27, 2021
Applicant:

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

Inventors:

Prashanth Giri, Round Rock, TX (US);

Wei G. Liu, Austin, TX (US);

Assignee:

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

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/57 (2013.01); G06F 9/4401 (2018.01); H04L 9/32 (2006.01); G06F 13/42 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/572 (2013.01); G06F 9/4401 (2013.01); G06F 13/4282 (2013.01); H04L 9/3239 (2013.01); H04L 9/3247 (2013.01); G06F 2213/0042 (2013.01); G06F 2221/033 (2013.01);
Abstract

In one or more embodiments, one or more systems, one or more methods, and/or one or more processes may read configuration information that indicates utilization of a custom information handling system firmware IHSFW image by an information handling system (IHS); provide the custom IHSFW image and a signature of the custom IHSFW image to a processor of the IHS; decrypt the signature of the custom IHSFW image to obtain a hash value of the custom IHSFW image; determine a test hash value of the custom IHSFW image; determine if the hash value matches the test hash value; if the hash value matches the test hash value, boot a custom IHSFW from the custom IHSFW image; and if the hash value does not match the test hash value, boot another IHSFW from another IHSFW image stored by a non-volatile memory medium of the IHS.


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