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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 09, 2014
Filed:
Apr. 28, 2012
Carl A. Bender, Highland, NY (US);
Nihad Hadzic, Wappingers Falls, NY (US);
Jeffrey C. Hanscom, Poughkeepsie, NY (US);
Howard M. Haynie, Wappingers Falls, NY (US);
Jeffrey M. Turner, Poughkeepsie, NY (US);
Carl A. Bender, Highland, NY (US);
Nihad Hadzic, Wappingers Falls, NY (US);
Jeffrey C. Hanscom, Poughkeepsie, NY (US);
Howard M. Haynie, Wappingers Falls, NY (US);
Jeffrey M. Turner, Poughkeepsie, NY (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Programmable hardware devices are re-programmed without system downtime. To re-program the device, the device is quiesced, state associated with the device is saved, updates are loaded, the state is restored and operations are resumed, all transparent to the system, except for a possible delay in the system.