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Patent US7721341 - Method and system for allowing code to be securely initialized in a computer - Google Patents
A memory controller prevents CPUs and other I/O bus masters from accessing memory during a code (for example, trusted core) initialization process. The memory controller resets CPUs in the computer and allows a CPU to begin accessing memory at a particular location (identified to the CPU by the memory...http://www.google.com/patents/US7721341?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US7721341 - Method and system for allowing code to be securely initialized in a computer
Publication number US7721341 B2
Application number US 11/152,909
Also published as EP1209563A2, EP1209563A3, EP1209563B1, US6938164, US7543335, US20050144476, US20050235166
Publication number 11152909, 152909, US 7721341 B2, US 7721341B2, US-B2-7721341, US7721341 B2, US7721341B2
Inventors Paul England, Bryan Willman
Patent Citations (117), Non-Patent Citations (20), Referenced by (13), Classifications (13), Legal Events (2)
US 7721341 B2
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U.S. Classification 726/27, 713/193, 726/21
International Classification G06F9/445, G06F12/14, G06F21/22, G06F1/24
Cooperative Classification G06F9/4405, G06F21/575, G06F15/177
European Classification G06F9/44A2, G06F21/57B, G06F15/177