US Patent Issued to Dell Products on Sept. 29 for "PCIe DPC SMI storm prevention system" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,748,656, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"PCIe DPC SMI storm prevention system" was invented by Tuyet-Huong Thi Nguyen (Cedar Park, Texas), Wei Liu (Austin, Texas) and Austin Patrick Bolen (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A Peripheral Component Interconnect express (PCIe) Downstream Port Containment (DPC) System Management Interrupt (SMI) storm prevention system includes a Basic Input/Output System (BIOS) subsystem coupled to a first PCIe device. In response to an error being experienced in the first PCIe device and causing the first PCIe device to perform DPC operations, the BIOS s...