Patents by Inventor Franklin Chuang

Franklin Chuang 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).

  • System and method to install firmware volumes from NVMe boot partition
    Patent number: 10990411
    Abstract: An information handling system includes a BIOS ROM that stores a first firmware volume of BIOS code. A non-volatile memory device includes a first boot partition that stores a second firmware volume of the BIOS code. A processor executes the first and second firmware volumes during a Pre-EFI Initialization phase of a Unified Extensible Firmware Interface boot process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Xiaomei Zhu, Mick Chiu, Franklin Chuang, Adolfo S. Montero, Isaac Hsu
  • System and Method to Install Firmware Volumes from NVMe Boot Partition
    Publication number: 20200310774
    Abstract: An information handling system includes a BIOS ROM that stores a first firmware volume of BIOS code. A non-volatile memory device includes a first boot partition that stores a second firmware volume of the BIOS code. A processor executes the first and second firmware volumes during a Pre-EFI Initialization phase of a Unified Extensible Firmware Interface boot process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2019
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Inventors: Xiaomei Zhu, Mick Chiu, Franklin Chuang, Adolfo S. Montero, Isaac Hsu
  • Method for extracting BIOS attributes for BIOS management and system therefor
    Patent number: 10268628
    Abstract: A method includes parsing basic input/output system (BIOS) information to collect configuration attributes defining configurable features at an information handling system. A configuration attribute file is generated that includes the configuration attributes. The configuration attribute file is stored at a BIOS non-volatile random-access memory (NVRAM) at the information handling system and is accessible during initialization of the information handling system by BIOS instructions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2019
    Assignee: Dell Products, LP
    Inventors: Franklin Chuang, Xiaomei Miller
  • Method for Extracting BIOS Attributes for BIOS Management and System Therefor
    Publication number: 20180150302
    Abstract: A method includes parsing basic input/output system (BIOS) information to collect configuration attributes defining configurable features at an information handling system. A configuration attribute file is generated that includes the configuration attributes. The configuration attribute file is stored at a BIOS non-volatile random-access memory (NVRAM) at the information handling system and is accessible during initialization of the information handling system by BIOS instructions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2016
    Publication date: May 31, 2018
    Inventors: Franklin Chuang, Xiaomei Miller
  • Firmware based runtime operating system switch
    Patent number: 9690596
    Abstract: Approaches for firmware-based runtime operating system switch. UEFI firmware receives a request to switch an active operating system on a device from a first operating system to a second operating system. The UEFI firmware changes the operational state of the first operating state to an ACPI S3 state. The UEFI firmware performs a set of ACPI S3 resume boot path operations on the second operating system to cause the second operating system to become the active operating system. The set of ACPI S3 resume boot path operations may be performed while the second operating system is loaded into a memory area inaccessible to the first operating system and the first operating system remains in the ACPI S3 state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2017
    Assignee: Phoenix Technologies Ltd.
    Inventor: Franklin Chuang