Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Technologies for lifecycle management with remote firmware
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Application No.: US15824604Application Date: 2017-11-28
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Publication No.: US10795595B2Publication Date: 2020-10-06
- Inventor: Murugasamy K. Nachimuthu , Mohan J. Kumar
- 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
- Priority: com.zzzhc.datahub.patent.etl.us.BibliographicData$PriorityClaim@7a83221a
- Main IPC: G06F8/65
- IPC: G06F8/65 ; G06F9/445 ; G06F3/06 ; G06F16/174 ; G06F21/57 ; G06F21/73 ; H04L12/24 ; H04L29/08 ; G06F11/30 ; G06F9/50 ; H03M7/30 ; H03M7/40 ; H04L12/26 ; H04L12/813 ; H04L12/851 ; G06F11/07 ; G06F11/34 ; G06F7/06 ; G06T9/00 ; H03M7/42 ; H04L12/28 ; H04L12/46 ; H04L29/12 ; G06F13/16 ; G06F21/62 ; G06F21/76 ; H03K19/173 ; H04L9/08 ; H04L12/933 ; G06F9/38 ; G06F9/48 ; G06F12/02 ; G06F12/06 ; G06T1/20 ; G06T1/60 ; G06F9/54 ; G06F8/656 ; G06F8/658 ; G06F8/654 ; G06F9/4401 ; H01R13/453 ; H01R13/631 ; H05K7/14 ; H04L12/911 ; G06F11/14 ; H04L29/06 ; G06F15/80

Abstract:
Technologies for lifecycle management include multiple computing devices in communication with a lifecycle management server. On boot, a computing device loads a lightweight firmware boot environment. The lightweight firmware boot environment connects to the lifecycle management server and downloads one or more firmware images for controllers of the computing device. The controllers may include baseboard management controllers, network interface controllers, solid-state drive controllers, or other controllers. The lifecycle management server may select firmware images and/or versions of firmware images based on the controllers or the computing device. The computing device installs each firmware image to a controller memory device coupled to a controller, and in use, each controller accesses the firmware image in the controller memory device. The controller memory device may be a DRAM device or a high-performance byte-addressable non-volatile memory. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180150293A1 TECHNOLOGIES FOR LIFECYCLE MANAGEMENT WITH REMOTE FIRMWARE Public/Granted day:2018-05-31
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