Patent ID: 9348604
Filing Date: 2016-05-24
CPC Classification: G06F

Claim Text:
1. A method for optimizing boot-up time of an information handling system comprising: determining whether one or more of a plurality of devices within the information handling system have changed configuration status from a last most recent boot-up operation; collecting device inventory information for only the devices that have changed configuration status from the last most recent boot-up operation; skipping collection of device inventory information for all other devices; and, performing a selective driver binding operation upon the devices that have changed configuration status; and wherein the selective driver binding operation further comprises determining which devices have changed by maintaining a hash value for each device where the hash value is calculated on each boot across all data gathered from a respective device and on subsequent boots, the selective driver binding operation calculates a subsequent boot hash value for each device and compares the subsequent boot hash value to the hash value.