DYNAMIC TIMEOUT DETERMINATION FOR MICROCONTROLLER MANAGEMENT OF FIRMWARE UPDATES

Patent №

US 9,477,458

Granted

2016-10-25

Filed 2012

Owner

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION

AI components

2

planning · hardware

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

13728139

Embodiments of the invention provide a method, system and computer program product for dynamic time out determination during a microcontroller driven firmware update. In an embodiment, the method includes selecting by a processor of a server a firmware update to be applied by a microcontroller to firmware of the server and computing a timeout value according to a function based upon a date of production of the server. The method also includes transmitting a request to the microcontroller to apply the selected firmware update to the firmware. Finally, the method includes determining a failure state responsive to detecting a lapse in time from the request beyond the timeout value without response by the microcontroller.

AI classification

AI hardware0.99
Planning0.75
Knowledge representation0.04
Vision0.01
Evolutionary computation0.01
Natural language0.00
Machine learning0.00
Speech0.00

Ownership

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION

assignment · 295330698

Assignors

ASSELIN, ALBERT A., NOLTERIEKE, MICHAEL H., ROBERTS, DAVID

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

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