Patents by Inventor Toby Zimmerman

Toby Zimmerman 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 MANAGEMENT MODE (SMM) ERROR HANDLER
    Publication number: 20230342234
    Abstract: The technology describe herein includes upon entering a mode of a processor that is not visible to an operating system (OS), setting a flag indicating entry into the mode and saving an identifier (ID) of an error causing entry into the mode; and responsive to a system reset initiation while in the mode, booting a basic input/output system (BIOS), creating an error record to be accessible to the OS after booting, the error record including the flag and the error ID, and booting the OS.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2022
    Publication date: October 26, 2023
    Applicant: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Pannerkumar Rajagopal, Santhosh Raghuram Krishnaswamy, Siddhartha Selvaraj, Anshul Soni, Toby Zimmerman
  • Exposing BIOS information to an ACPI aware operating system
    Publication number: 20050283599
    Abstract: A method, system and article of manufacture to expose Basic Input/Output System (BIOS) information to an Advanced Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI) aware operating system. BIOS setup data is copied to an ACPI memory region during a pre-boot phase of a computer system. An operating system on the computer system is booted. The BIOS setup data is accessed during an operating system runtime of the computer system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2004
    Publication date: December 22, 2005
    Inventors: Toby Zimmerman, John Mathews