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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:
Nov. 13, 2012
Filed:
Sep. 21, 2006
Applicants:
Vincent J. Zimmer, Federal Way, WA (US);
George Cox, Lake Oswego, OR (US);
Inventors:
Vincent J. Zimmer, Federal Way, WA (US);
George Cox, Lake Oswego, OR (US);
Assignee:
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 7/04 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Provided are a techniques for determining whether tagged memory is available. In response to determining that tagged memory is available, it is determined whether an Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI) system is implemented. In response to determining that the EFI system is implemented, object descriptors for EFI runtime code and data are allocated and one or more call points from non-tagged memory to tagged memory are provided for use at runtime.