Abstract: Systems and methods for determining a foreground application and at least one background application from multiple graphics applications executing within an execution environment are disclosed. Pixel data rendered by the foreground application may be displayed in the execution environment while a rendering thread of the background application may be paused.

Abstract: Systems and methods for determining a foreground application and at least one background application from multiple graphics applications executing within an execution environment are disclosed. Pixel data rendered by the foreground application may be displayed in the execution environment while a rendering thread of the background application may be paused.

Abstract: Systems and methods for determining a foreground application and at least one background application from multiple graphics applications executing within an execution environment are disclosed. Pixel data rendered by the foreground application may be displayed in the execution environment while a rendering thread of the background application may be paused.

Abstract: Systems and methods for determining a foreground application and at least one background application from multiple graphics applications executing within an execution environment are disclosed. Pixel data rendered by the foreground application may be displayed in the execution environment while a rendering thread of the background application may be paused.

Abstract: Systems and methods for determining a foreground application and at least one background application from multiple graphics applications executing within an execution environment are disclosed. Pixel data rendered by the foreground application may be displayed in the execution environment while a rendering thread of the background application may be paused.

Abstract: A mechanism is described for facilitating dynamic capsule generation and recovery in computing environments according to one embodiment. A method of embodiments, as described herein, includes accessing a current firmware and a capsule driver binary file (“capsule file”) from a storage device, and merging the current firmware with the capsule file and a capsule header into a capsule payload. The method may further include assigning a security protocol to the capsule payload to ensure a secured capsule payload, and storing the secured capsule payload at the storage device for subsequent updates.

Abstract: Systems and methods for determining a foreground application and at least one background application from multiple graphics applications executing within an execution environment are disclosed. Pixel data rendered by the foreground application may be displayed in the execution environment while a rendering thread of the background application may be paused.

Abstract: Technologies for securely booting a computing device includes a security engine of the computing device that consecutively determines a hash value for each block of initial boot firmware and generates an aggregated hash value from the hash value determined for each of the blocks. A processor of the computing device determines whether the aggregated hash value matches a reference checksum value. Initialization of the processor is completed in response to a determination that the aggregated hash value matches the reference checksum value. In some embodiments, the security engine consecutively retrieves each block of the initial boot firmware from a memory of the computing device, stores each retrieved block in a secure memory of the security engine, and determines the hash value for each stored block. Each block stored in the secure memory is copied to a portion of a cache memory of the processor initialized as Cache as RAM.

Abstract: A mechanism is described for facilitating dynamic capsule generation and recovery in computing environments according to one embodiment. A method of embodiments, as described herein, includes accessing a current firmware and a capsule driver binary file (“capsule file”) from a storage device, and merging the current firmware with the capsule file and a capsule header into a capsule payload. The method may further include assigning a security protocol to the capsule payload to ensure a secured capsule payload, and storing the secured capsule payload at the storage device for subsequent updates.

Abstract: Technologies for securely booting a computing device includes a security engine of the computing device that consecutively determines a hash value for each block of initial boot firmware and generates an aggregated hash value from the hash value determined for each of the blocks. A processor of the computing device determines whether the aggregated hash value matches a reference checksum value. Initialization of the processor is completed in response to a determination that the aggregated hash value matches the reference checksum value. In some embodiments, the security engine consecutively retrieves each block of the initial boot firmware from a memory of the computing device, stores each retrieved block in a secure memory of the security engine, and determines the hash value for each stored block. Each block stored in the secure memory is copied to a portion of a cache memory of the processor initialized as Cache as RAM.

Abstract: Multiple applications may display information in distinct regions of the display screen at the same time. Multiple user applications using different rendering technologies can display information simultaneously in distinct regions of the same display screen. In addition, a user interface application or user experience application may use different rendering technology than the user applications. The user application may use any desired rendering technology and still simultaneously display information on the user interface by enabling an off screen mode to be automatically implemented by an agent in the rendering technology.