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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.

Date of Patent:
Dec. 01, 2015

Filed:

Mar. 29, 2013
Applicant:

Dell Products, Lp, Round Rock, TX (US);

Inventors:

Kurt D. Gillespie, Pflugerville, TX (US);

Gregory S. Hudgins, Round Rock, TX (US);

Assignee:

Dell Products, LP, Round Rock, TX (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/00 (2006.01); G06F 9/44 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/4418 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method includes booting an information handling system, providing by an EFI of the information handling system a memory segment for a first EFI type memory access, reserving a first portion of the segment from access by an operating system of the information handling system, determining a size of the first portion, determining a size of a second portion of the segment based upon the size of the first portion, allocating a third portion of the segment for the first EFI type memory access, the third portion including the first portion and the second portion, and passing a memory map to the operating system, the memory map including the third portion, wherein the third portion is reserved from access by the operating system.


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