Patents by Inventor Greg Alan Havenga

Greg Alan Havenga 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 for consolidated BIOS-level event logging
    Patent number: 11507463
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer programs encoded on computer storage medium, for identifying, during a particular boot of an information handling system, basic input/output system (BIOS)-level events, each BIOS-level event associated with a different BIOS log event source; for each BIOS-level event: creating, by a respective driver computing module associated with the BIOS-level event, event data for the BIOS-level event; calling, by the respective driver computing module associated with the BIOS-level event, a dispatcher protocol to provide the event data associated with the respective driver computing module to a dispatcher computing module; placing, by the dispatcher computing module, each of the event data in a temporary data store, wherein each of the event data is unaltered; and creating, by the dispatcher computing module, a database log of the event data, including aggregating each of the event data to generate a sequence of events related to the particular boot of the IHS.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Carl Claude McAdams, Joshua Nathaniel Alperin, Ruhull Alam Bhuiyan, Allen Chester Wynn, Ibrahim Sayyed, Greg Alan Havenga
  • SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONSOLIDATED BIOS-LEVEL EVENT LOGGING
    Publication number: 20210026737
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer programs encoded on computer storage medium, for identifying, during a particular boot of an information handling system, basic input/output system (BIOS)-level events, each BIOS-level event associated with a different BIOS log event source; for each BIOS-level event: creating, by a respective driver computing module associated with the BIOS-level event, event data for the BIOS-level event; calling, by the respective driver computing module associated with the BIOS-level event, a dispatcher protocol to provide the event data associated with the respective driver computing module to a dispatcher computing module; placing, by the dispatcher computing module, each of the event data in a temporary data store, wherein each of the event data is unaltered; and creating, by the dispatcher computing module, a database log of the event data, including aggregating each of the event data to generate a sequence of events related to the particular boot of the IHS.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2019
    Publication date: January 28, 2021
    Inventors: Carl Claude McAdams, Joshua Nathaniel Alperin, Ruhull Alam Bhuiyan, Allen Chester Wynn, Ibrahim Sayyed, Greg Alan Havenga