Patent ID: 9270697
Filing Date: 2016-02-23
CPC Classification: G06F,H04L

Claim Text:
1. An apparatus, comprising: a hardware processor of a target machine, the hardware processor configured to implement a Basic Input/Output System (BIOS) level management operating mode, the hardware processor including (1) an acquiring module configured to execute within the BIOS level management operating mode and (2) a network module configured to execute within the BIOS level management operating mode, the acquiring module configured to acquire an indication of a memory state of a memory of the target machine in response to the hardware processor entering the BIOS level management operating mode, the network module configured to send the indication of the memory state to an analysis module in response to (1) the hardware processor entering the BIOS level management operating mode and (2) the acquiring module acquiring the indication of the memory state, the hardware processor configured to remain in the BIOS level management operating mode until the network module has completed sending the indication of the current memory state to the analysis module.