Patent ID: 8819708

Claim:
A computer implemented method comprising: receiving a first Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) device path at a UEFI driver included at a first information handling system, the device path corresponding to a device installed at the first information handling system, the UEFI driver including a table identifying a mapping between each respective member of a set of UEFI device paths and a corresponding member of a set of correlatable identifier strings; determining that the first UEFI device path is included in the set of UEFI device paths; and providing a first correlatable identifier string in response to the determining; wherein the first correlatable identifier provides a platform independent identifier for referring to the installed device, and wherein a driver included at a second information handling system includes a table identifying a mapping between a device path corresponding to a device installed at the second information handling system and the first correlatable identifier.