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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 04, 2017
Filed:
Jul. 30, 2015
Adtran, Inc., Huntsville, AL (US);
Andrew T. Ruble, Athens, AL (US);
Byron L. Young, New Market, AL (US);
Adtran, Inc., Huntsville, AL (US);
Abstract
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for managing device firmware. In one aspect, a system includes a file server; a subtending device coupled to the file server, and a telecommunications node coupled to the subtending device. The subtending device can include one or more line cards that connect one or more telecommunications nodes to a network. The telecommunications node receives, from the subtending device, a group name and replaces a wildcard in a firmware filename to derive a first network path of firmware files. The telecommunications node installs the firmware files and subsequently receives an updated group name. The telecommunications node replaces the wildcard with the updated group name to derive an updated path, and obtains different firmware files from the updated path. The firmware installed on the telecommunications node is managed based on the first firmware and the different firmware.