Patent ID: 11922177
Assignee: HEWLETT PACKARD ENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT LP
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  H | IPC G  H

Claim 16:
17. A method comprising:
during startup of a system:
executing, at the system, a unified extensible firmware interface (UEFI) shell that provides an output for a display device;
identifying, by the system, a location of a startup script;
requesting, by the UEFI shell, the startup script at the identified location over a network using a secure transfer network protocol of a UEFI network stack;
receiving, at the system over the network, the startup script; and
downloading, by the system, commands comprising a boot command to the UEFI shell to add functionality to the UEFI shell, wherein, after the downloading of the commands, the UEFI shell comprises the boot command, and wherein the boot command when invoked downloads an image comprising a bootstrap program to a memory of the system, the bootstrap program for booting the system.