Patents by Inventor ShengRui Ji

ShengRui Ji 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).

  • Automatic discovery and installation of secure boot certificates
    Patent number: 10181036
    Abstract: A method includes a unified extensible firmware interface of a compute node identifying an option ROM or an OS boot loader within the compute node, wherein the option ROM or OS boot loader stores a signed image that can be verified using a required digital certificate. The method further includes determining that the unified extensible firmware interface does not store the required digital certificate in a revocation database or in an authorization database. Still further, the method includes automatically identifying the required digital certificate in a database of digital certificates other than the revocation database or the authorization database, and providing the required digital certificate to the authorization database.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2019
    Assignee: Lenovo Enterprise Solutions (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Nathan K. Campbell, Douglas W. Oliver, ShengRui Ji, SongWu Shen, WenWei Tang
  • AUTOMATIC DISCOVERY AND INSTALLATION OF SECURE BOOT CERTIFICATES
    Publication number: 20160378970
    Abstract: A method includes a unified extensible firmware interface of a compute node identifying an option ROM or an OS boot loader within the compute node, wherein the option ROM or OS boot loader stores a signed image that can be verified using a required digital certificate. The method further includes determining that the unified extensible firmware interface does not store the required digital certificate in a revocation database or in an authorization database. Still further, the method includes automatically identifying the required digital certificate in a database of digital certificates other than the revocation database or the authorization database, and providing the required digital certificate to the authorization database.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2015
    Publication date: December 29, 2016
    Inventors: Nathan K. Campbell, Douglas W. Oliver, ShengRui Ji, SongWu Shen, WenWei Tang