Pre-Grant Publication Number: 20070118658
Filing Date: November 23, 2020
Inventors: Paul Broyles, Patrick Gibbons
Assignee: Hewlett Packard
Current U.S. Classification: 709, 709/227000
View Prior Art for Claim 00001
A computer system, comprising:
a processor;
a basic input/output system (BIOS) including logic instructions which, when executed by the processor, configure the processor to:
initiate power on self test (POST) processing in the basic input/output system of a computing device;
present one or more management alert formats in a user interface;
receive a selection signal from the user interface identifying one of the management alert formats presented in the user interface; and
configure a device coupled to the computing system with the identified management alert format.
Patent/Application # 7,185,189
Description
Patent number 7,185,189
Patent/Application # 5379431
Description
US Patent 5379431, System boots a processor and attached peripherals. Resets storage of peripherals. Then, initializes a simple environment to activate operating system, enabling file sharing and other basic services to customize IO devices, system preferences, and hardware configurations.
Patent/Application # US6928542
Description
US6928542 provides for detecting various OS's on a PDA and displaying them in a menu for user selection. Includes a POST step.
Patent/Application # US6178503
Description
Patent by PowerQuest for BootMagic boot menu for multiple operating systems.
Patent/Application # 5390324
Description
This patent describes a method to detect errors in the BIOS during the POST process. When an error is detected, the user can be alerted via a pager.
Patent/Application # 6353885
Description
This patent specifically refers to configuring a device via user selectable BIOS configuration settings. (This patent also teaches an improvement over user interaction to obtain a setting, the improvement being use of a smart card encoded with same.) A specific setting for "management alert format" is not mentioned however.
Title Intel® Active Management Technology (Intel® AMT) Quick Reference
Description
Describes configuring AMT through BIOS extension menu, after selecting AMT from a choice of AMT or ASF on a BIOS System Setup screen. Dated Oct. 2005 according to http://support.intel.com/support/motherboards/desktop/sb/CS-020828.htm.
