Patent Document ID: 7991785
Application ID: 12538486

Base Claim:
1. A computer-implemented method for providing an extended interface to a human interface infrastructure (HII) database in an extensible firmware interface (EFI) environment, the method comprising computer-implemented operations for: receiving a request to store the contents of a package in an HII database maintained in the EFI environment; in response to the request, identifying a HII component stored in the package; computing extended information regarding the identified HII component, wherein the HII component comprises a string and the extended information comprises the length of the string in Unicode characters; storing the extended information regarding the identified HII component in the HII database; and exposing a method for retrieving the extended information from the HII database.

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Claim 6:
6. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , wherein the HII component comprises strings of a plurality of languages.