METHOD, SYSTEM, AND PRODUCT FOR BOOTING A PARTITION USING ONE OF MULTIPLE, DIFFERENT FIRMWARE IMAGES WITHOUT REBOOTING OTHER PARTITIONS

Patent №

US 6,971,002

Granted

2005-11-29

Filed 2001

Owner

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION

AI components

2

planning · hardware

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

09925584

A method, system, and product within a logically partitioned computer system including multiple, different partitions are disclosed for booting a partition using one of multiple, different firmware images. These multiple, different firmware images are stored in the computer system. One of the partitions is rebooted utilizing one of the firmware images without rebooting other ones of the partitions.

AI classification

AI hardware0.72
Planning0.64
Evolutionary computation0.11
Natural language0.00
Knowledge representation0.00
Machine learning0.00
Vision0.00
Speech0.00

Ownership

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION

assignment · 120810729

Assignors

AUSTEN, CHRISTOPHER HARRY, LEE, VAN HOA, WILLOUGHBY, DAVID R.

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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