ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,261, issued on June 30, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).
"Secure boot partition for cloud compute nodes" was invented by Brian Spencer Payne (Portland, Ore.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present embodiments relate to a secure boot partition for a cloud computing device of a cloud computing system. The computing device of the cloud computing system can transmit a first request for a pre-boot execution environment executable from a smart network interface card (SmartNIC). The computing device can receive the pre-boot environment executable from the SmartNIC and verify the pre-boot execution envi...