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US 10,853,089 B2Granted
Dynamically loading firmware based on geographic location
AssigneeLenovo Enterprise Solutions (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
InventorsPaul Artman, Gary D. Cudak
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Abstract
Apparatuses, methods, systems, and program products are disclosed for dynamically loading firmware based on geographic location. A location module determines a geographic location associated with a system. A firmware module determines a firmware configuration associated with the geographic location. A loading module dynamically accesses the firmware configuration associated with the geographic location from a remote data store, and loads the firmware configuration on the system.
Claims19
An apparatus comprising:
- a location module that determines a geographic location of a computing device comprising a volatile memory device, the computing device not comprising a firmware configuration that is persistently stored in a non-volatile storage device, wherein the computing device and volatile memory device are located at the determined geographic location;
- a firmware module that determines a firmware configuration associated with the determined geographic location, wherein a local copy of a firmware configuration associated with the determined geographic location is not stored in persistent storage of the computing device;
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- a loading module that:
- updates one or more firmware pointers on the computing device to point to one or more storage locations for the firmware configuration on a remote data store;
- reboots the computing device in response to updating the one or more firmware pointers;
- in response to the reboot, dynamically accesses the firmware configuration associated with the geographic location from a remote data store based on the one or more firmware pointers to the one or more storage locations;
- loads the firmware configuration on the volatile memory device of the computing device;
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- automatically deletes the firmware configuration from the volatile memory device in response to a reboot of the computing device to prevent the computing device from persistently storing a local copy of the firmware configuration in non-volatile storage,
- wherein said modules comprise hardware circuits, a programmable hardware device and/or executable code executing on a processor.
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A method comprising:
- determining, by use of a processor, a geographic location of a computing device comprising a volatile memory device, the computing device not comprising a firmware configuration that is persistently stored in a non-volatile storage device, the processor and volatile memory device are located at the determined geographic location;
- determining a firmware configuration associated with the determined geographic location, wherein a local copy of a firmware configuration associated with the determined geographic location is not stored in persistent storage of the computing device;
- updating one or more firmware pointers on the computing device to point to one or more storage locations for the firmware configuration on a remote data store;
- rebooting the computing device in response to updating the one or more firmware pointers;
- in response to the reboot, dynamically accessing the firmware configuration associated with the geographic location from a remote data store based on the one or more firmware pointers to the one or more storage locations;
- loading the firmware configuration on the volatile memory device of the computing device;
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- automatically deleting the firmware configuration from the volatile memory device in response to a reboot of the computing device to prevent the computing device from persistently storing a local copy of the firmware configuration in non-volatile storage.
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A program product comprising a non-transitory computer readable storage medium that stores code executable by a processor, the executable code comprising code to perform:
- determining a geographic location of a computing device comprising a volatile memory device, the computing device not comprising a firmware configuration that is persistently stored in a non-volatile storage device, volatile memory device are located at the determined geographic location;
- determining a firmware configuration associated with the determined geographic location, wherein a local copy of a firmware configuration associated with the determined geographic location is not stored in persistent storage of the computing device;
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- updating one or more firmware pointers on the computing device to point to one or more storage locations for the firmware configuration on a remote data store;
- rebooting the computing device in response to updating the one or more firmware pointers;
- in response to the reboot, dynamically accessing the firmware configuration associated with the geographic location from a remote data store based on the one or more firmware pointers to the one or more storage locations;
- loading the firmware configuration on the volatile memory device of the computing device;
- and
- automatically deleting the firmware configuration from the volatile memory device in response to a reboot of the computing device to prevent the computing device from persistently storing a local copy of the firmware configuration in non-volatile storage.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.