Patents by Inventor Rick Edgecombe

Rick Edgecombe 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).

  • Technologies for pre-boot biometric authentication
    Patent number: 10747885
    Abstract: A method of providing authentication services for a hardware component within a secure execution environment during a pre-boot process is provided. The method is implemented using a computing device. The method includes loading, within the secure execution environment, a biometric authentication enclave, the secure execution environment being isolated from untrusted software of the computing device and receiving, by a manageability controller, a biometric template from a network source. The method also includes mutually authenticating the manageability controller and the biometric authentication enclave, and provisioning, to the biometric authentication enclave, from the manageability controller, the biometric template in response to mutual authentication. The method further includes authenticating, by the biometric authentication enclave, a biometric input using the biometric template. The method may further include providing access to a hardware component in response to authenticating the biometric input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Reshma Lal, Rick Edgecombe
  • TECHNOLOGIES FOR PRE-BOOT BIOMETRIC AUTHENTICATION
    Publication number: 20190042756
    Abstract: A method of providing authentication services for a hardware component within a secure execution environment during a pre-boot process is provided. The method is implemented using a computing device. The method includes loading, within the secure execution environment, a biometric authentication enclave, the secure execution environment being isolated from untrusted software of the computing device and receiving, by a manageability controller, a biometric template from a network source. The method also includes mutually authenticating the manageability controller and the biometric authentication enclave, and provisioning, to the biometric authentication enclave, from the manageability controller, the biometric template in response to mutual authentication. The method further includes authenticating, by the biometric authentication enclave, a biometric input using the biometric template. The method may further include providing access to a hardware component in response to authenticating the biometric input.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2018
    Publication date: February 7, 2019
    Inventors: Reshma Lal, Rick Edgecombe