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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 07, 2024
Filed:
Jul. 12, 2021
Applicant:
Dell Products, L.p., Round Rock, TX (US);
Inventors:
Mukund P. Khatri, Austin, TX (US);
Eugene David Cho, Austin, TX (US);
Assignee:
Dell Products, L.P., Round Rock, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/57 (2013.01); G06F 21/10 (2013.01); G06F 21/31 (2013.01); G06F 21/60 (2013.01); G06Q 30/012 (2023.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/575 (2013.01); G06F 21/31 (2013.01); G06F 21/602 (2013.01); G06Q 30/012 (2013.01); G06F 21/107 (2023.08);
Abstract
Embodiments of systems and methods for indicating a type of secure boot to endpoint devices by a security processor are described. In some embodiments, a security processor may include: a core and a memory coupled to the core, the memory having program instructions stored thereon that, upon execution by the core, cause the security processor to: identify a type of secure boot last performed to bootstrap an Information Handling System (IHS); and make an indication of the type of secure boot available to a host processor or Baseboard Management Controller (BMC) of the IHS.