US 12,386,967 B2
Hash look-up table to triage catastrophic system failures
Xiaomei Zhu Miller, Round Rock, TX (US); Adolfo S. Montero, Pflugerville, TX (US); and Shekar Babu S, Bangalore (IN)
Assigned to Dell Products L.P., Round Rock, TX (US)
Filed by DELL PRODUCTS L.P., Round Rock, TX (US)
Filed on Aug. 25, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/455,804.
Claims priority of application No. 202311052040 (IN), filed on Aug. 2, 2023.
Prior Publication US 2025/0045406 A1, Feb. 6, 2025
Int. Cl. G06F 21/57 (2013.01)
CPC G06F 21/575 (2013.01) 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An information handling system, comprising:
a memory device including a location to store a path hash value; and
a Basic Input/Output System (BIOS) configured to execute a plurality of processes of a boot sequence to boot the information handling system, each process having a unique identifier (ID), wherein, when the BIOS executes a first process of the boot sequence, the BIOS calculates a first hash value of a first ID of the first process and stores the first hash value in the location, and, each time the BIOS executes a subsequent process of the boot sequence, the BIOS calculates a second hash value of the path hash value and a second ID of the subsequent process and stores the second hash value in the location.