IDiyas

For the Inventor, By the Inventor

The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document.

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.

Patent No.:

US 11200046 B1

PDFFull Text
Date of Patent:
Dec. 14, 2021

Filed:

Oct. 22, 2019

Managing composable compute system infrastructure with support for decoupled firmware updates

Applicant:

Lenovo Enterprise Solutions (Singapore) Pte. Ltd., Singapore, SG;

Inventors:

Fred A. Bower, III, Durham, NC (US);

Caihong Zhang, Shanghai, CN;

Assignee:

Lenovo Enterprise Solutions (Singapore) Pte. Ltd., Singapore, SG;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:

Tuan A Vu

Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/44 (2018.01); G06F 8/656 (2018.01); G06F 8/658 (2018.01); G06F 12/1081 (2016.01); G06F 9/4401 (2018.01); G06F 9/50 (2006.01); G06F 9/48 (2006.01); G06F 9/455 (2018.01); G06F 3/06 (2006.01); H04L 12/24 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 8/656 (2018.02); G06F 8/658 (2018.02); G06F 9/4418 (2013.01); G06F 9/45558 (2013.01); G06F 9/4856 (2013.01); G06F 9/5027 (2013.01); G06F 9/5066 (2013.01); G06F 9/5088 (2013.01); G06F 12/1081 (2013.01); G06F 3/0673 (2013.01); H04L 41/12 (2013.01);
Abstract

Managing composable compute system infrastructure with support for decoupled firmware updates includes mapping a device to a server, wherein the device is in a resource pool of devices including at least one idle device, and wherein the device and the server are within a pod of composable compute elements connected by a fabric in a composable system executing a workload; detecting that the device has a needed firmware update; exchanging, transparent to the workload executing in the composable system, the mapping for the device with the needed firmware update and the idle device in the resource pool; and performing the firmware update on the unmapped device as the workload executes in the composable system with the newly mapped device.

Find Patent Forward Citations

Loading…