System and method for using an extensible firmware interface...

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2007-03-13

2007-03-13

Lee, Thomas (Department: 2116)

Electrical computers and digital processing systems: support

Digital data processing system initialization or configuration

Loading initialization program

C713S001000, C710S001000

Reexamination Certificate

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10894808

ABSTRACT:
Disclosed is a system and a method for implementing an extensible firmware interface (EFI). In one embodiment, a system and a method pertain to launching an EFI utility during a boot process of a computer system, and building an EFI layer that resides between an operating system of the computer system and a legacy basic input/output system (BIOS) of the computer system using the EFI utility.

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