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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:
Jul. 11, 2017

Filed:

Jun. 23, 2014
Applicant:

Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Inventors:

Giri P. Mudusuru, Portland, OR (US);

Vincent J. Zimmer, Federal Way, WA (US);

Karunakara Kotary, Portland, OR (US);

Ronald N. Story, Hillsboro, OR (US);

Robert C. Swanson, Olympia, WA (US);

Isaac W. Oram, Portland, OR (US);

Assignee:

INTEL CORPORATION, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/30 (2006.01); G06F 11/14 (2006.01); G06F 13/32 (2006.01); G06F 12/02 (2006.01); G11C 5/14 (2006.01); G06F 11/20 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/30 (2013.01); G06F 11/1441 (2013.01); G06F 12/0246 (2013.01); G06F 13/32 (2013.01); G11C 5/141 (2013.01); G06F 11/2015 (2013.01);
Abstract

Generally, this disclosure provides systems, devices, methods and computer readable media for a Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) with durable storage to provide memory write persistence, for example, in the event of power loss. The system may include a processor to host the firmware interface which may be configured to control access to system variables in a protected region of a volatile memory. The system may also include a power management circuit to provide power to the processor and further to provide a power loss indicator to the firmware interface. The system may also include a reserve energy storage module to provide power to the processor in response to the power loss indicator. The firmware interface is further configured to copy the system variables from the volatile memory to a non-volatile memory in response to the power loss indicator.


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