FIRMWARE MANAGEMENT

Patent №

US 8,601,463

Granted

2013-12-03

Filed 2011

Owner

HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, L.P.

Lab

AI components

2

planning · hardware

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

13258380

Computer-readable storage media, methods and systems are provided for managing firmware on a plurality of field-replaceable units (“FRU”) (12). An aspect of installed firmware of the FRU (12) may be compared to an aspect of a firmware bundle. The firmware bundle may contain one or more images that are expected to be installed on the plurality of FRUs (10, 20) already or that are intended to be installed. A mismatch indication may be produced where the aspect of the installed firmware does not match the aspect of the firmware bundle.

AI classification

AI hardware1.00
Planning0.82
Vision0.32
Knowledge representation0.03
Evolutionary computation0.01
Natural language0.00
Machine learning0.00
Speech0.00

Ownership

HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, L.P.

assignment · 270070867

Assignors

BOUCHIER, PAUL, FRYE, TIMOTHY A., PIOTROWSKI, PETER M., KATO, RICK A.

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

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