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US 11,385,885 B2Granted
System and method of downloading a firmware to a server
AssigneeLenovo Enterprise Solutions (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
InventorZhipeng Gao
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Abstract
A method of downloading a firmware to a server is disclosed as including providing a server with a mainboard with a baseboard management controller (BMC) and at least one universal serial bus (USB) port, connecting the USB port to a USB device controller of the BMC of the server, resetting the BMC, connecting a data processing device with the server via the USB port, and downloading a firmware to the BMC from or through the data processing device via the USB port.
Claims15
A server including:
- a mainboard with a baseboard management controller (BMC) having a universal serial bus (USB) device controller;
- at least one USB port;
- and
- an integrated circuit (IC) device,
- wherein the IC device is operable to connect the USB port to the USB device controller of the BMC, and wherein the IC device is operable to enable the BMC to boot from the USB port.
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A method including:
- connecting a universal serial bus (USB) port of a server to a USB device controller of a baseboard management controller (BMC) of the server;
- resetting the said BMC;
- connecting a data processing device with the server via the USB port;
- and
- downloading a firmware to the BMC through the data processing device via the USB port, including enabling the BMC to boot from the USB port of the server.
2 more elements
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.