US 12,277,424 B2
Cloud-based provisioning of UEFI-enabled systems
Syama Sundararao Nadiminti, Karnataka (IN); Sriram Subramanian, Karnataka (IN); and Sunil Malhotra, Karnataka (IN)
Assigned to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP, Spring, TX (US)
Filed by Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP, Spring, TX (US)
Filed on Apr. 26, 2024, as Appl. No. 18/647,722.
Application 18/647,722 is a continuation of application No. 17/929,801, filed on Sep. 6, 2022, granted, now 11,995,450.
Claims priority of application No. 202241040569 (IN), filed on Jul. 15, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2024/0272913 A1, Aug. 15, 2024
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. G06F 9/4401 (2018.01); G06F 21/57 (2013.01)
CPC G06F 9/4416 (2013.01) [G06F 9/4406 (2013.01); G06F 21/575 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A computing system, comprising:
a controller configured to receive, from a cloud manager over a secure connection, unified extensible firmware interface (UEFI) configuration;
one or more processors; and
one or more non-transitory computer-readable storage media storing programming for execution by the one or more processors, the programming comprising instructions to:
identify, based on the UEFI configuration, a provisioning proxy server;
obtain, via the provisioning proxy server and based on the UEFI configuration, a startup script from a repository over a network connection;
download, by the startup script via the provisioning proxy server, an image file from the repository over the network connection; and
provision the computing system from the image file.