Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Distributed and redundant firmware evaluation
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Application No.: US15428274Application Date: 2017-02-09
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Publication No.: US10601955B2Publication Date: 2020-03-24
- Inventor: Vincent J. Zimmer , Rajesh Poornachandran , Ned M. Smith , Mingqiu Sun , Gopinatth Selvaraje
- Applicant: Intel Corporation
- Applicant Address: US CA Santa Clara
- Assignee: Intel Corporation
- Current Assignee: Intel Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Santa Clara
- Agency: Barnes & Thornburg LLP
- Main IPC: H04L29/08
- IPC: H04L29/08 ; H04L29/06 ; H04L12/24

Abstract:
An automated method for distributed and redundant firmware evaluation involves using a first interface that is provided by system firmware of a client device to obtain, at an evaluation server, a first firmware resource table (FRT) from the client device. The evaluation server also uses a second interface that is provided by a component of the client device other than the system firmware to obtain a second FRT from the client device. The evaluation server automatically uses the first and second FRTs to identify a trustworthy FRT among the first and second FRTs. The evaluation server automatically uses the trustworthy FRT to determine whether the client device should be updated. For instance, the evaluation server may automatically use the trustworthy FRT to determine whether firmware in the client device should be updated. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180227391A1 DISTRIBUTED AND REDUNDANT FIRMWARE EVALUATION Public/Granted day:2018-08-09
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