Automatic firmware corruption recovery and update

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 7849454
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11331509

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Firmware for a baseboard management controller (BMC) of a blade server module in an information handling system may have automatic firmware corruption recovery and updating through a TFTP transfer from a central storage location having the most recent BMC firmware image. Upon blade power-on or reset the BMC firmware image is checked for corruption and if corrupted a new BMC firmware image is loaded into the BMC memory. If the BMC firmware image is not corrupted then it is checked to determine if it is the latest version. If it is the latest version the BMC starts normal program execution. If not the latest version then the BMC firmware is updated through the TFTP transfer from the central storage location having the most recent BMC firmware image.

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DELL PRODUCTS L PONE DELL WAY ROUND ROCK TX 78682

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Cochran, Stephen Cedar Park, US 14 455
Lambert, Timothy Austin, US 12 273
Lopez, Pedro Austin, US 52 1097

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