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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 17, 2013
Filed:
Dec. 31, 2004
Applicants:
Tao Zhang, Shanghai, CN;
Jianfeng Mei, Changning District, CN;
Lechong Chen, Shanghai, CN;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/24 (2006.01); G06F 9/00 (2006.01); G06F 15/177 (2006.01); G06F 9/445 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method and system to manage an extension mechanism for firmware is described. A firmware binary file is stored in an extension area of a storage device of a computer system. The Basic Input/Output System (BIOS) of the computer system is modified to access the stored firmware binary file stored in the extension area. In one embodiment, the computer system is Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI) compliant.