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Patent No.:

US 9678732 B1

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Date of Patent:
Jun. 13, 2017

Filed:

Sep. 14, 2012
Applicants:

Balakesan P. Thevar, Bangalore, IN;

Sankaranarayanan Venkatasubramanian, Tamil Nadu, IN;

Karunakara Kotary, Bangalore, IN;

Rebecca Morali, Ma'aleh Adumim, IL;

Karthick C, Bangalore, IN;

Inventors:

Balakesan P. Thevar, Bangalore, IN;

Sankaranarayanan Venkatasubramanian, Tamil Nadu, IN;

Karunakara Kotary, Bangalore, IN;

Rebecca Morali, Ma'aleh Adumim, IL;

Karthick C, Bangalore, IN;

Assignee:

INTEL CORPORATION, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/445 (2006.01); G06F 21/57 (2013.01); G06F 9/44 (2006.01); G06F 1/32 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 8/61 (2013.01); G06F 9/4411 (2013.01); G06F 21/575 (2013.01); G06F 1/3206 (2013.01); Y02B 60/183 (2013.01);
Abstract

Methods, apparatuses and storage medium associated with providing firmware to a device are disclosed herein. In various embodiments, an apparatus may include a device, and a processor to host a computing environment that includes the device and a device driver of the device. Further, the apparatus may include a firmware agent, disposed outside the computing environment, to provide, on behalf of the device driver, firmware to the device on power-on of the device. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.


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Thevar, Balakesan. (2017). Firmware agent (U.S. Patent No. 9678732). U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. https://idiyas.com/patent/badge/9678732

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