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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 22, 2016
Filed:
Aug. 22, 2013
Applicant:
Via Technologies, Inc., New Taipei, TW;
Inventors:
Chung-Ching Huang, New Taipei, TW;
Kuo-Han Chang, New Taipei, TW;
Yao-Wen Tang, New Taipei, TW;
Chun-Wei Chan, New Taipei, TW;
Assignee:
VIA TECHNOLOGIES, INC., New Taipei, TW;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/44 (2006.01); G06F 21/57 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/4401 (2013.01); G06F 21/575 (2013.01);
Abstract
An embodiment of the invention provides a secure boot method for an electronic device including an embedded controller and a processor. The method includes the steps of verifying a secure loader by the embedded controller, unlocking a peripheral hardware of the electronic device by the embedded controller, and executing the secure loader by the processor.