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System and method to abstract hardware routing via a correlatable identifier

US8819708B2 · kind B2 · utility

3Cited by

1References

20Claims

0Family size

Assignee

Dell Products L.P. · US

Inventors

Mark W. Shutt · Austin, US
Anand Joshi · Round Rock, US
Austin Patrick Bolen · Austin, US
Patrick O. Boyd · Round Rock, US
Samer El Haj Mahmoud · Austin, US
William C. Edwards · Round Rock, US

Key dates

Filing date	Jan 10, 2011
Grant date	Aug 26, 2014
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Oct 19, 2031

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG06F8/61
WIPO fieldComputer technology
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

An information handling system includes a firmware management infrastructure. The firmware management infrastructure includes a database that identifies a correspondence between members of a set of device paths and members of a set of correlatable identifier strings. A device path represents a platform-specific reference to an object at the information handling system and a correlatable identifier string represents a platform independent reference to the object. Programs can access the database using an application programming interface.

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