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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:
May. 26, 2009
Filed:
Jul. 14, 2003
Eric Balard, Vence, FR;
Alain Chateau, Cagnes sur Mer, FR;
Jerome Azema, Villeneuve-Loubet, FR;
Texas Instruments Incorporated, Dallas, TX (US);
Abstract
A computing platform () protects system firmware () using a manufacturer certificate (). The manufacturer certificate binds the system firmware () to the particular computing platform (). The manufacturer certificate may also store configuration parameters and device identification numbers. A secure run-time platform data checker () and a secure run-time checker () check the system firmware during operation of the computing platform () to ensure that the system firmware () or information in the manufacturer certificate () has not been altered. Application software files () and data files () are bound to the particular computing device () by a platform certificate (). A key generator may be used to generate a random key and an encrypted key may be generated by encrypting the random key using a secret identification number associated with the particular computing platform (). Only the encrypted key is stored in the platform certificate ().
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