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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 04, 2024
Filed:
Apr. 24, 2020
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Kevin Liedtke, Portland, OR (US);
James R. Hearn, Hillsboro, OR (US);
Scott P. Dubal, Oregon City, OR (US);
Jeffery Oliver, Oregon City, OR (US);
Patrick J. Mclaughlin, Wilsonville, OR (US);
Sharada Ashok Shiddibhavi, Hillsboro, OR (US);
Daniel K. Osawa, Tigard, OR (US);
Kelly J. Couch, Beaverton, OR (US);
Maciej Plucinski, Hillsboro, OR (US);
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
Examples described herein relate to a network interface receiving a firmware update from one or more packets. In some examples, the one or more packets indicate a start of a firmware update. In some examples, the network interface can also perform authenticating the start of firmware update indication and based on authentication of the firmware update, permit a firmware update of a device. In some examples, the device is one or more of: Board Management Controller (BMC), central processing unit (CPU), network interface, Ethernet controller, storage controller, memory controller, display engine, graphics processing unit (GPU), accelerator device, or peripheral device. In some examples, an end of firmware update indicator is received in the one or more packets. In some examples, communications are maintained through a port during a firmware change.