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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. 09, 2024

Filed:

Jun. 02, 2022
Applicant:

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

Inventors:

Richard A Bramley, Mansfield, MA (US);

Baraneedharan Anbazhagan, Spring, TX (US);

Valiuddin Ali, Spring, TX (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/14 (2006.01); G06F 12/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/1416 (2013.01); G06F 12/0246 (2013.01); G06F 2212/1052 (2013.01); G06F 2212/7207 (2013.01);
Abstract

An example non-transitory computer readable storage medium comprising instructions that when executed cause a processor of a computing device to: in response to a trigger of a system management mode (SMM), verify all processor threads have been pulled into the SMM; in response to a successful verification, enable write access to a non-volatile memory of the computing device via two registers, where the writing access is disabled upon booting of the computing device; and upon exiting the SMM, disable the write access via the two registers.


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