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Patent No.:

US 9575791 B1

PDFFull Text
Date of Patent:
Feb. 21, 2017

Filed:

Feb. 12, 2014

Unified extensible firmware interface system management mode initialization protections with system management interrupt transfer monitor sandboxing

Applicant:

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

Inventors:

Ricardo L. Martinez, Leander, TX (US);

Allen C. Wynn, Round Rock, TX (US);

Assignee:

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

Attorney:

Larson Newman, LLP

Primary Examiner:

Chun-Kuan Lee

Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 13/20 (2006.01); G06F 9/455 (2006.01); G06F 13/24 (2006.01); G06F 21/53 (2013.01); G06F 9/44 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/45558 (2013.01); G06F 9/4401 (2013.01); G06F 13/24 (2013.01); G06F 21/53 (2013.01); G06F 9/4411 (2013.01); G06F 9/45533 (2013.01); G06F 2009/45579 (2013.01);
Abstract

An information handling system includes a processor configured to trap system management interrupts (SMIs) via a system management mode transfer monitor (STM), a first system resource, a SMI handler configured to operate within the STM, launch a first system management mode (SMM) virtual machine, load first SMM code for a first driver into the first SMM virtual machine, and associate the first SMM virtual machine with the first system resource and not with the second system resource.

Find Patent Forward Citations

Martinez, Ricardo. (2017). Unified extensible firmware interface system management mode initialization protections with system management interrupt transfer monitor sandboxing (U.S. Patent No. 9575791). U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. https://idiyas.com/patent/badge/9575791

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