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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 27, 2011
Filed:
May. 04, 2005
Paul H. Bouchier, Little Elm, TX (US);
John R. Diamant, Fort Collins, CO (US);
Gerald J. Kaufman, Fort Collins, CO (US);
Paul H. Bouchier, Little Elm, TX (US);
John R. Diamant, Fort Collins, CO (US);
Gerald J. Kaufman, Fort Collins, CO (US);
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
To control update of content in a programmable read-only memory in a system, the security status associated with the system is determined, where the security status is one of a secure mode and non-secure mode. In response to detecting that the system is in secure mode, a write to the programmable read-only memory is enabled. In response to detecting that the system is in non-secure mode, a write to the programmable read-only memory is disabled.