Mark S. Doran
Intel
30 Papers
726 Citations
Mark S. Doran is an academic researcher from Intel. The author has contributed to research in topics: Firmware & Interface (computing). The author has an hindex of 16, co-authored 30 publications.
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Papers
Patent
Providing a secure execution mode in a pre-boot environment
Vincent J. Zimmer,Bryant Bigbee,Andrew J. Fish,Mark S. Doran +3 more
- 20 Oct 2003
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a method to establish a secure pre-boot environment in a computer system; and perform at least one secure operation in the secure environment; and the secure operation may be storage of a secret in the security preboot environment.
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Switching between a service virtual machine and a guest virtual machine in a virtual machine monitor environment
Gundrala D. Goud,Vincent J. Zimmer,Mallik Bulusu,Mark S. Doran,David K. Dorwin,Michael A. Rothman +5 more
- 30 Sep 2003
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a VM switch between a Service VM and a Guest VM in a virtual machine monitor (VMM) of a computer system, where the VMM is loaded on the computer system to support a ServiceVM and a guest VM.
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Power management of storage units in a storage array
Michael A. Rothman,Vincent J. Zimmer,Mark S. Doran +2 more
- 26 May 2004
TL;DR: In this article, a power profile is accessed for a storage array, including a plurality of storage units, wherein each storage unit is enabled to operate in one of the plurality of power consumption modes, and the power profile indicates a power mode specifying a power consumption mode.
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Aggressive content pre-fetching during pre-boot runtime to support speedy OS booting
Vincent J. Zimmer,Michael A. Rothman,Mark S. Doran,Andrew J. Fish +3 more
- 04 Aug 2006
TL;DR: In this paper, the content is pre-fetched from a data storage unit of the processing system based on a pre-fetch profile and loaded into system memory of the system.
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Method for firmware variable storage with eager compression, fail-safe extraction and restart time compression scan
Vincent J. Zimmer,Michael A. Rothman,Gregory L. Miller,Mark S. Doran +3 more
- 26 May 2004
TL;DR: In this article, an application program interface is provided to enable operating system runtime access to the stored firmware variables, and a determination is made to whether the variable is stored in a compressed or uncompressed form.
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