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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 05, 2015
Filed:
Jan. 17, 2013
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Albert A. Asselin, Morrisville, NC (US);
William J. Piazza, Holly Springs, NC (US);
David B. Roberts, Cary, NC (US);
Lenovo Enterprise Solutions (Singapore) Pte. Ltd., Singapore, SG;
Abstract
A computer program product including computer usable program code embodied on a tangible computer readable storage medium, wherein the computer program product includes computer usable program code for downloading a candidate version of a firmware image for a particular product, computer usable program code for updating incomplete firmware compatibility metadata by downloading additional firmware compatibility metadata for the particular product, and computer usable program code for using the updated firmware compatibility metadata to determine whether the candidate version of the firmware image is compatibility with a current version of a firmware image that is installed within the particular product.