Operating system-firmware interface update recovery

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 8132055
APP PUB NO 20110126043A1
SERIAL NO

12622969

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Operating system (‘OS’)-firmware interface update recovery including determining, for each of a plurality of available OS-firmware interface images for booting a computer, whether each available OS-firmware interface image is corrupted or uncorrupted; setting, for each corrupted OS-firmware interface image, a predictive failure analysis (‘PFA’) bit in nonvolatile memory available to the OS-firmware interface update recovery module; selecting an uncorrupted OS-firmware interface image; initiating a boot for the computer with the selected OS-firmware interface image; determining whether a previous update to one of the available OS-firmware interface images was interrupted; and notifying a user that the previous update was interrupted if the previous update to one of the available OS-firmware interface images interrupted.

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INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONNEW ORCHARD ROAD ARMONK NY 10504

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Anderson, Paul L Raleigh, US 15 185
Atherton, William E Raleigh, US 20 423
Dang, Tu T Raleigh, US 14 519
Elles, Michael C Raleigh, US 16 556

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