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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 26, 2026
Filed:
Jan. 02, 2024
Quanta Computer Inc., Taoyuan City, TW;
Yu-Chu Huang, Taoyuan City, TW;
Ko-Chin Chung, Taoyuan City, TW;
Quanta Computer Inc., Taoyuan City, TW;
Abstract
Systems and methods are disclosed for automating firmware updating on a computing system. Specifically, the aspects and features disclosed allow a baseboard management controller (BMC) to automatically step through the local firmware versions of various components of a computing system and compare those versions with up-to-date firmware versions to see whether any of the local firmware versions should be replaced with the respective up-to-date firmware version. The up-to-date firmware versions can be obtained from vendor firmware server(s) either locally by the computing system (e.g., by a BMC or main processor of the computing system) or remotely. When up-to-date firmware versions are obtained remotely, a facilitator system can obtain the up-to-date firmware versions and save them to a removable storage device, which can be temporarily coupled to the BMC of the computing system to automatically update the firmware of the components of that computing system.