Patent ID: 8832435

Claim:
A method of providing a real-time indication of platform trust, the method comprising: determining, by an integrity reporting module, that a platform is currently operating in a system management mode (SMM); receiving from an integrity measurement module, by the integrity reporting module, an integrity measurement results signal; in response to determining that the platform is currently operating in the SSM, determining, by the integrity reporting module, whether the received integrity measurement results signal indicates the platform is trusted; if the received integrity measurement results signal indicates that the platform is trusted, providing to a user of the platform, by the integrity reporting module, a real-time visual indication that the platform is trusted; and if the received integrity measurement results signal indicates that the platform is not trusted, providing to the user of the platform, by the integrity reporting module, a real time visual indication that the platform is not trusted, wherein the real time visual indication is based on continuous periodic assessments of the received integrity measurement results.