US 12,450,071 B2
Embedded controller based NVMe key management service
Gowtham Moorthy, Namakkal (IN); Shekar Babu Suryanarayana, Bangalore (IN); and Ranjan Kumar, Siliguri (IN)
Assigned to Dell Products L.P., Round Rock, TX (US)
Filed by Dell Products L.P., Round Rock, TX (US)
Filed on Jan. 24, 2024, as Appl. No. 18/421,137.
Prior Publication US 2025/0238237 A1, Jul. 24, 2025
Int. Cl. G06F 9/4401 (2018.01)
CPC G06F 9/4401 (2013.01) 14 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A computer-implementable method for performing a firmware management operation, comprising:
providing an information handling system with a distributed BIOS, the distributed BIOS including a BIOS component and a BIOS variable;
identifying a processor environment installed on an information handling system from a plurality of processor environments;
performing a firmware key management operation, the firmware key management operation managing a key when performing a distributed firmware management operation; and wherein
the firmware key management operation uses a replay protected memory block service to enable secure read and write operations with an associated boot partition; and,
the replay protected memory block service enables write protection of the associated boot partition during operating system runtime.