Patents by Inventor David Wade Smith

David Wade Smith has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Systems and methods for detecting hardware tampering of information handling system hardware
    Patent number: 9858421
    Abstract: A method comprising may include storing, in a BIOS comprising a program of instructions executable by the processor and configured to cause the processor to initialize one or more information handling resources of an information handling system, a hardware profile of the information handling system, the hardware profile comprising identifying information of one or more information handling resources of the information handling system recorded during creation of the hardware profile. The method may also include, during a boot of the information handling system in a hardware verification mode, creating a new hardware profile comprising identifying information of the one or more information handling resources, comparing the new hardware profile to the hardware profile stored in the BIOS, and if the new hardware profile differs from the hardware profile stored in the BIOS, issuing an alert indicating potential tampering with hardware of the information handling system after creation of the profile.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Kurt D. Gillespie, Gregory S. Hudgins, David Wade Smith
  • SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETECTING HARDWARE TAMPERING OF INFORMATION HANDLING SYSTEM HARDWARE
    Publication number: 20160004867
    Abstract: A method comprising may include storing, in a BIOS comprising a program of instructions executable by the processor and configured to cause the processor to initialize one or more information handling resources of an information handling system, a hardware profile of the information handling system, the hardware profile comprising identifying information of one or more information handling resources of the information handling system recorded during creation of the hardware profile. The method may also include, during a boot of the information handling system in a hardware verification mode, creating a new hardware profile comprising identifying information of the one or more information handling resources, comparing the new hardware profile to the hardware profile stored in the BIOS, and if the new hardware profile differs from the hardware profile stored in the BIOS, issuing an alert indicating potential tampering with hardware of the information handling system after creation of the profile.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2014
    Publication date: January 7, 2016
    Inventors: Kurt D. Gillespie, Gregory S. Hudgins, David Wade Smith