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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:
Aug. 20, 2019

Filed:

Jul. 31, 2018
Applicant:

Dell Products L.p., Round Rock, TX (US);

Inventors:

Michael E. Brown, Austin, TX (US);

Senthil Kumar, Bangalore, IN;

Marshal F. Savage, Austin, TX (US);

Ashok N. Potti, Bangalore, IN;

Assignee:

Dell Products L.P., Round Rock, TX (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/445 (2018.01); G06F 11/14 (2006.01); G06F 11/07 (2006.01); G06F 8/65 (2018.01); G06F 9/4401 (2018.01); H04L 29/08 (2006.01); G06F 11/20 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 11/1433 (2013.01); G06F 8/65 (2013.01); G06F 9/4401 (2013.01); G06F 11/0793 (2013.01); G06F 11/1417 (2013.01); G06F 11/2041 (2013.01); H04L 67/34 (2013.01);
Abstract

A firmware update of multiple processing nodes in an information handling system may include writing updated firmware images to reserve memory partitions associated with each node, rolling all nodes back to the existing firmware images if writing of an updated firmware image fails, booting each node into the updated firmware image stored on its associated reserve memory partition if writing of updated firmware images succeeds, booting each node into the updated firmware image stored on its associated reserve memory partition, rolling all nodes back to the existing firmware images if booting of an updated firmware image fails, copying the updated firmware images from reserve memory partitions associated with each node to the respective working memory partition associated with each node if booting of updated firmware images succeeds.


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