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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 23, 2003
Filed:
Mar. 31, 2000
Applicant:
Inventors:
Michael F. Angelo, Houston, TX (US);
George David Wisecup, Houston, TX (US);
David L. Collins, Magnolia, TX (US);
Assignee:
Hewlett-Packard Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/5177 ; G06F 9/445 ; G06F 1/214 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/5177 ; G06F 9/445 ; G06F 1/214 ;
Abstract
A method and apparatus for protecting a computer system. Specifically, a method and system for validating portions of memory at each power-on cycle is described. A Boot Block is used to validate the BIOS, CMOS and NVRAM of a system. The BIOS may also be used to validate the Boot Block, CMOS and NVRAM.