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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:
Feb. 06, 2024

Filed:

Aug. 18, 2020
Applicant:

Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Inventors:

Murugasamy K. Nachimuthu, Beaverton, OR (US);

Deepak Gandiga Shivakumar, Hillsboro, OR (US);

Dan Williams, Forest Grove, OR (US);

Tiffany Kasanicky, Longmont, OR (US);

Krzysztof Rusocki, Ciechocinek, PL;

Nicholas Moulin, Longmont, CO (US);

Mohan J. Kumar, Aloha, OR (US);

Assignee:

Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 8/654 (2018.01); G06F 8/656 (2018.01); G06F 9/4401 (2018.01); G06F 9/48 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 8/654 (2018.02); G06F 8/656 (2018.02); G06F 9/4401 (2013.01); G06F 9/4881 (2013.01);
Abstract

Systems, apparatuses and methods may provide for technology that exchanges activation information between system firmware and an operating system (OS), wherein the activation information includes one or more of status information, activation state information, capability information, activation time information or quiesce time information. The technology also conducts a runtime upgrade of the device firmware based on the activation information, wherein the runtime upgrade bypasses a reboot of the computing system.


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