Rapid dissemination of information to widely dispersed network nodes via patch
OwnerJeremy Johnson, Raj Vaswani +1inventors
InventorsJeremy Johnson, Raj Vaswani, Kunal Shah
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Abstract
A method of distributing information to a plurality of nodes in a network. The method includes selecting a node of the plurality of nodes as a seed node, providing a patch image to the seed node, creating, by the seed node, a second image from the patch image, and disseminating the second image to a plurality of neighbor nodes.
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A method of distributing information to a plurality of nodes in a network, the method comprising:
- selecting a node of the plurality of nodes as a seed node;
- providing a patch image to the seed node;
- creating, by the seed node, a second image from the patch image;
- and
- disseminating the second image to a plurality of neighbor nodes.
A method of distributing information to a plurality of nodes in a network, the method comprising:
- receiving a first patch image by a first node of the plurality of nodes, the first node having a first firmware type;
- building, by the first node, a first complete image using the first patch image;
- informing the plurality of nodes that the first complete image is available;
- receiving a request for the first complete image from another of the plurality of nodes;
- and
- sending the first complete image from the first node to the node which requested the first complete image.
A method of updating a network having nodes with two or more incompatible firmware types, the method comprising:
- selecting a first node in the network having a first firmware-type as a first seed node;
- selecting a second node in the network having a second firmware-type as a second seed node;
- providing a first firmware-type patch image to the first node;
- providing a second-firmware-type patch image to the second node;
- recreating, by the first node, a first firmware-type complete image;
- recreating, by the second node, a second firmware-type complete image;
- disseminating, by the first node, the first firmware-type complete image to a first plurality of nodes on the network having the first firmware-type;
- and
- disseminating, by the second node, the second firmware-type complete image to a second plurality of nodes on the network having the second firmware-type.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.