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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 30, 2014
Filed:
May. 18, 2009
Applicants:
Mark A. Piwonka, Tomball, TX (US);
Bernard D. Desselle, Spring, TX (US);
Louis B. Hobson, Tomball, TX (US);
Inventors:
Mark A. Piwonka, Tomball, TX (US);
Bernard D. Desselle, Spring, TX (US);
Louis B. Hobson, Tomball, TX (US);
Assignee:
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/31 (2013.01); G06F 21/57 (2013.01); G06F 21/52 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/57 (2013.01); G06F 21/52 (2013.01);
Abstract
Systems and methods of determining a trust level from system management mode are disclosed. One such method includes: responsive to a system management mode interrupt (SMI), determining a trust level associated with code invoking the SMI; and responsive to determining that the trust level is untrusted, granting or denying a request made by the code invoking the SMI based at least in part on a type of the request.