Patent ID: 11922173
Assignee: DELL PRODUCTS L.P.
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 12:
13. An article of manufacture comprising:
a non-transitory computer readable medium; and
computer-executable instructions carried on the computer readable medium, the instructions readable by a processor, the instructions, when read and executed, for causing the processor to, in a basic input/output system (BIOS) of an information handling system during a pre-boot environment of the information handling system:
register a soft keyboard driver, configured to analyze a system context of information handling system and determine whether to enable soft keyboard functionality, with a consplitter driver configured to handle user I/O interactions during the pre-boot environment;
collect contextual information indicative of the system context, wherein the contextual information includes information indicative of whether the information handling system has experienced a boot failure during a recent boot attempt;
based on the contextual information, determine, by the soft keyboard driver, whether to enable soft keyboard functionality; and
responsive to a determination to enable soft keyboard functionality, cause display of an interactive soft keyboard icon to the display device during the pre-boot environment.