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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 21, 2026
Filed:
Dec. 22, 2021
Nvidia Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Siamak Nazari, Mountain View, CA (US);
Dana Myers, Mountain View, CA (US);
Roopesh Tamma, San Ramon, CA (US);
Stuart Davies, Fremont, CA (US);
William Price, Alameda, CA (US);
Nvidia Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
A driver, e.g., a UEFI driver (), for a device () in a host () starts before an OS boot. The driver () provides functions including gathering information regarding the host system (), directing the device () to transmit the gathered information to a cloud-based service (), directing the device () to provide a catalog of current firmware, updating firmware in the host () or device () based on the catalog, and configuring the device (). The device may be a storage processing unit () that is part of a cluster () that presents virtual volumes including a boot volume () for the host (), and execution of the driver () can provide a delay until a boot volume () is ready.
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