Patent ID: 11915015
Assignee: DELL PRODUCTS L.P.
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 8:
9. A method for supporting use of pre-boot resources of an Information Handling System (IHS) by a plurality of workspaces operating on the IHS, the method comprising:
receiving, from a remote workspace orchestration service, a notification of an initialization of a first workspace on the IHS, wherein the notification specifies a segregated variable space for use by the first workspace;
initializing the segregated variable space and populating the segregated variable space with a plurality of pre-boot variables allowed for configuration by the first workspace, wherein the segregated variable space is populated with the pre-boot variables based on an access control list that specifies the plurality of pre-boot variables allowed for configuration by the first workspace, and wherein an update key is stored in the segregated variable space during initialization of the segregated variable space, and wherein a modification to the pre-boot variables allowed for configuration by the first workspace is decrypted using the update key;
receiving, from the first workspace, a request to configure use of a pre-boot variable of the IHS;
identifying the segregated variable space as being mapped for use by the first workspace;
determining whether the first workspace is allowed to configure the requested pre-boot variable based on the pre-boot variables that are populated in the segregated variable space; and
when the requested pre-boot variable configuration is allowed, configuring the requested pre-boot variable on behalf of the first workspace.