Patent ID: 6711736
Filing Date: 2004-03-23
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
A method of obtaining the BIOS version date in the windows operating system, which comprises the steps of:defining input and output parameter buffers; obtaining the initial address and area size of search memory; mapping physical addresses to linear addresses; initializing an address shift; making sure that the shift is smaller than the memory size minus 8; making sure that the address pointed by the initial address plus the shift is a number; taking the address with the number as a base address and making sure that the second and fifth bytes are the symbol â€œ/â€ ; making sure that the zeroth through seventh bytes of the base address comprises the symbol â€œ/â€  and numbers; making sure that the eighth and ninth bytes are numbers; and keeping the values of the zeroth through ninth bytes of the base address and returning the values thereof to the application routine.