Patents by Inventor Gowtham Moorthy

Gowtham Moorthy 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).

  • In-memory confirmation of basic input output system functionality
    Patent number: 12639078
    Abstract: A firmware management operation. The firmware management operation includes 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 an in-memory BIOS functionality operation, the in-memory BIOS functionality operation confirming functionality of the BIOS component and the BIOS variable with the processor environment installed on the information handling system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2024
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2026
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Ranjan Kumar, Gowtham Moorthy, Shekar Babu Suryanarayana
  • Processor Environment Agnostic Firmware Updates via Universal Firmware Management Protocol
    Publication number: 20260119153
    Abstract: A firmware management operation. The firmware management operation includes providing an information handling system with a distributed unified BIOS, identifying a processor environment installed on an information handling system from a plurality of processor environments, the processor environment comprising a processor architecture and performing a universal firmware update operation, the universal firmware update operation seamlessly updating firmware associated with a plurality of information handling system components.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2024
    Publication date: April 30, 2026
    Inventors: Gowtham Moorthy, Ranjan Kumar, Shekar Babu Suryanarayana
  • Extended firmware management operation to dynamically restore NVMe boot partition
    Patent number: 12608478
    Abstract: A firmware management operation. The firmware management operation includes 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; and, performing an extended firmware management operation, the extended firmware management operation recovering a copy of the BIOS component from a remote memory storage location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2024
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2026
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Gowtham Moorthy, Shekar Babu Suryanarayana, Ranjan Kumar
  • Non-Volatile Memory Boot Partition Smart Cache for Faster Platform Boot
    Publication number: 20260104897
    Abstract: A firmware management operation. The firmware management operation includes providing an information handling system with a distributed unified BIOS, the distributed unified BIOS comprising a firmware component, identifying a processor environment installed on an information handling system from a plurality of processor environments, the processor environment comprising a processor architecture, and performing a boot path management operation, the boot path management operation managing a memory storage location of the firmware component during an information handling system boot process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2024
    Publication date: April 16, 2026
    Inventors: Gowtham Moorthy, Xiaomei Zhu, Shekar Babu Suryanarayana
  • Embedded payload metadata signatures for tracking dispersed basic input output system components during operating system and pre-boot operations
    Patent number: 12481506
    Abstract: A firmware management operation. The firmware management operation includes 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; and, performing a BIOS component memory address tracking operation, the BIOS component memory address tracking operation tracking a system memory physical address of the BIOS component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2024
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2025
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Ranjan Kumar, Gowtham Moorthy, Shekar Babu Suryanarayana
  • Processor environment agnostic distributed basic input output system component management
    Patent number: 12481507
    Abstract: A firmware management operation. The firmware management operation includes 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; selecting a particular BIOS component based upon the processor environment installed on the information handling system; generating a particular BIOS variable based upon the processor environment installed on the information handling system; and, loading the particular BIOS component and particular BIOS variable on the information handling system, the loading being seamless regardless of the processor environment installed on the information handling system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2024
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2025
    Assignee: Dell Products
    Inventors: Ranjan Kumar, Gowtham Moorthy, Shekar Babu Suryanarayana
  • Embedded controller based NVMe key management service
    Patent number: 12450071
    Abstract: A firmware management operation. The firmware management operation includes 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.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2024
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2025
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Gowtham Moorthy, Shekar Babu Suryanarayana, Ranjan Kumar
  • Modern scalable flash firmware architecture
    Patent number: 12437074
    Abstract: An information handling system includes a flash memory having a basic input/output system (BIOS) firmware image having a modular file structure and a segment offset table that identifies offsets of a first set of modules including the firmware image. The system collects a second set of modules from a BIOS firmware update payload and maps the second set of modules to the first set of modules in the flash memory. The system also updates the BIOS firmware image with the second set of modules based on the offsets in the segment offset table.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2025
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Shekar Babu S, Gowtham Moorthy
  • Extended Firmware Management Operation to Dynamically Restore NVMe Boot Partition
    Publication number: 20250238516
    Abstract: A firmware management operation. The firmware management operation includes 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; and, performing an extended firmware management operation, the extended firmware management operation recovering a copy of the BIOS component from a remote memory storage location.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2024
    Publication date: July 24, 2025
    Inventors: Gowtham Moorthy, Shekar Babu Suryanarayana, Ranjan Kumar
  • Context Aware Redundant Sourcing of Basic Input Output System Components to Facilitate Fault Tolerant Boot Operations
    Publication number: 20250238239
    Abstract: A firmware management operation. The firmware management operation includes 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; determining whether to perform a redundant BIOS component management operation, the determining whether to perform the redundant BIOS component management operation being context aware; identifying a distributed BIOS backup storage location; performing the redundant BIOS component management operation using a BIOS payload stored at the distributed BIOS backup storage location.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2024
    Publication date: July 24, 2025
    Inventors: Ranjan Kumar, Gowtham Moorthy, Shekar Babu Suryanarayana
  • Firmware Failure Remediation Operation to Facilitate a Successful Information Handling System Boot Process
    Publication number: 20250238326
    Abstract: A firmware management operation. The firmware management operation includes 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 boot process failure remediation operation, the boot process failure remediation operation applying a remedial solution to a boot process failure to facilitate successful completion of a boot process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2024
    Publication date: July 24, 2025
    Inventors: Gowtham Moorthy, Shekar Babu Suryanarayana, Ranjan Kumar
  • Embedded Controller Based NVMe Key Management Service
    Publication number: 20250238237
    Abstract: A firmware management operation. The firmware management operation includes 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.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2024
    Publication date: July 24, 2025
    Inventors: Gowtham Moorthy, Shekar Babu Suryanarayana, Ranjan Kumar
  • Embedded Payload Metadata Signatures for Tracking Dispersed Basic Input Output System Components During Operating System and Pre-Boot Operations
    Publication number: 20250238235
    Abstract: A firmware management operation. The firmware management operation includes 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; and, performing a BIOS component memory address tracking operation, the BIOS component memory address tracking operation tracking a system memory physical address of the BIOS component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2024
    Publication date: July 24, 2025
    Inventors: Ranjan Kumar, Gowtham Moorthy, Shekar Babu Suryanarayana
  • Processor Environment Agnostic Distributed Basic Input Output System Component Management
    Publication number: 20250238238
    Abstract: A firmware management operation. The firmware management operation includes 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; selecting a particular BIOS component based upon the processor environment installed on the information handling system; generating a particular BIOS variable based upon the processor environment installed on the information handling system; and, loading the particular BIOS component and particular BIOS variable on the information handling system, the loading being seamless regardless of the processor environment installed on the information handling system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2024
    Publication date: July 24, 2025
    Inventors: Ranjan Kumar, Gowtham Moorthy, Shekar Babu Suryanarayana
  • In-Memory Confirmation of Basic Input Output System Functionality
    Publication number: 20250238236
    Abstract: A firmware management operation. The firmware management operation includes 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 an in-memory BIOS functionality operation, the in-memory BIOS functionality operation confirming functionality of the BIOS component and the BIOS variable with the processor environment installed on the information handling system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2024
    Publication date: July 24, 2025
    Inventors: Ranjan Kumar, Gowtham Moorthy, Shekar Babu Suryanarayana
  • MODERN SCALABLE FLASH FIRMWARE ARCHITECTURE
    Publication number: 20250045402
    Abstract: An information handling system includes a flash memory having a basic input/output system (BIOS) firmware image having a modular file structure and a segment offset table that identifies offsets of a first set of modules including the firmware image. The system collects a second set of modules from a BIOS firmware update payload and maps the second set of modules to the first set of modules in the flash memory. The system also updates the BIOS firmware image with the second set of modules based on the offsets in the segment offset table.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2023
    Publication date: February 6, 2025
    Inventors: Shekar Babu S, Gowtham Moorthy
  • MODULAR FLASH FIRMWARE PAYLOAD GENERATION
    Publication number: 20250045047
    Abstract: An information handling system identifies modified modules based on a comparison of first binaries of a first version of a system firmware with second binaries of a second version of the system firmware. The system bundles the modified modules including offset definitions as a binary file.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2023
    Publication date: February 6, 2025
    Inventors: Shekar Babu S, Gowtham Moorthy
  • System on a chip-agnostic dynamic firmware volumes for basic input/output extension
    Patent number: 12056010
    Abstract: An information handling system may include a processor and first non-transitory computer-readable media communicatively coupled to the processor and having stored thereon a basic input/output system (BIOS) core comprising BIOS core firmware sufficient to execute features of a BIOS of the information handling system to a particular portion of BIOS execution and an extension agent configured to identify and enumerate a firmware volume of a second non-transitory computer-readable media communicatively coupled to the processor and having stored thereon a BIOS extension comprising BIOS extension firmware for executing completion of BIOS execution from the particular portion of BIOS execution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2024
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Shekar Babu Suryanarayana, Karunakar Poosapalli, Gowtham Moorthy, Piyush Dhamdhere
  • Detecting and recovering a corrupted non-volatile random-access memory
    Patent number: 11740969
    Abstract: An information handling system includes a memory manager that may detect corruption of a non-volatile random-access memory, and perform a recovery process of the non-volatile random-access memory that includes determining whether a header of the non-volatile random-access memory is corrupted. If the header is not corrupted, then a data region associated with the header may be recovered from recovery data values in a spare store in the non-volatile random-access memory. If the header is corrupted, then the header and the data region may be recovered from default data values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Gowtham Moorthy, Annappa Kumar MN, Shekar Babu Suryanarayana
  • SYSTEM ON A CHIP-AGNOSTIC DYNAMIC FIRMWARE VOLUMES FOR BASIC INPUT/OUTPUT EXTENSION
    Publication number: 20230267045
    Abstract: An information handling system may include a processor and first non-transitory computer-readable media communicatively coupled to the processor and having stored thereon a basic input/output system (BIOS) core comprising BIOS core firmware sufficient to execute features of a BIOS of the information handling system to a particular portion of BIOS execution and an extension agent configured to identify and enumerate a firmware volume of a second non-transitory computer-readable media communicatively coupled to the processor and having stored thereon a BIOS extension comprising BIOS extension firmware for executing completion of BIOS execution from the particular portion of BIOS execution.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2022
    Publication date: August 24, 2023
    Applicant: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Shekar Babu SURYANARAYANA, Karunakar POOSAPALLI, Gowtham MOORTHY, Piyush DHAMDHERE