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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Jun. 25, 2019

Filed:

Apr. 28, 2017
Applicant:

Quanta Computer Inc., Taoyuan, TW;

Inventor:

Yen-Ping Tung, Taoyuan, TW;

Assignee:

QUANTA COMPUTER INC., Taoyuan, TW;

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/445 (2018.01); G06F 17/30 (2006.01); G06F 9/44 (2018.01); G06F 8/65 (2018.01); H04L 29/08 (2006.01); G06F 8/61 (2018.01); G06F 8/654 (2018.01); G06F 21/57 (2013.01); G06F 11/30 (2006.01); G06F 9/4401 (2018.01); G06F 8/30 (2018.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 8/65 (2013.01); G06F 8/63 (2013.01); G06F 8/654 (2018.02); H04L 67/34 (2013.01); G06F 8/30 (2013.01); G06F 9/4401 (2013.01); G06F 11/3055 (2013.01); G06F 21/572 (2013.01);
Abstract

The present disclosure provides a system and method for automatically updating firmware of components of a server system. For example, the method may include: downloading OS image file from a vendor, mounting downloaded OS image file to the server system via a virtual media (VM) A, automatically generating a universal serial bus (USB) read/write image containing a firmware image for VM B use, mounting the USB read/write image to a VM B, sending a command to a controller of the server system to set a boot disk via the VM A, rebooting the server system, and enabling an update service to automatically mount updated firmware image to the VM B.


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