US Patent 7376870 Self-monitoring and updating of firmware over a network

Patent 7376870 was granted and assigned to Intel on May, 2008 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.

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Intel

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United States Patent and Trademark Office

Patent Number

7376870

Date of Patent

May 20, 2008

Patent Application Number

10957444

Date Filed

September 30, 2004

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Dieu-Minh Le

Patent abstract

Embodiments include monitoring a computing system to determine whether firmware of the computing system is corrupted, hung up, or requires automatic update. The computing system may then request firmware update data over a network. Moreover, the computing system may include a controller with capability to determine whether the firmware is corrupted or hung and request and receive firmware update data over a network. In addition, the controller may have the capability operate when the firmware is corrupted or hung up, if the processor is held up, and if the operating system is halted, hung up, or soft-off. In addition, if the controller detects that the firmware is corrupted or hung up, the controller may halt the processor while updating the firmware.

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