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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:
Jan. 11, 2022

Filed:

Apr. 24, 2020
Applicant:

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

Inventors:

Allen C. Wynn, Round Rock, TX (US);

Ibrahim Sayyed, Georgetown, TX (US);

Carl C. McAdams, Round Rock, TX (US);

Gregory A. Havenga, Lakeway, TX (US);

Ruhull A. Bhuiyan, Austin, TX (US);

Assignee:

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

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/44 (2018.01); G06F 8/654 (2018.01); G06F 8/61 (2018.01); G06F 21/57 (2013.01); G06F 1/24 (2006.01); G06F 11/36 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 8/654 (2018.02); G06F 1/24 (2013.01); G06F 8/63 (2013.01); G06F 11/366 (2013.01); G06F 21/572 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method may include, during a boot of an information handling system: determining, based on settings stored in non-volatile memory of the information handling system, whether to perform pre-commit execution of a firmware update image prior to committing the firmware update image to a motherboard of the information handling system, and responsive to determining to perform pre-commit execution, load the firmware update image from a basic input/output system partition of a storage resource of the information handling system and execute the firmware update image in lieu of a firmware image stored on the motherboard.


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