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US 2020/0004522 A1Published application
Selective download of a portion of a firmware bundle
AssigneeHewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP
InventorsMurali Mohan Chakravarthy Chintagunta, Krishna Kumar Mani
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Abstract
In some examples of the present disclosure, a method can include selectively downloading only a metadata portion of a remotely web-hosted distributable firmware bundle, reviewing the downloaded metadata portion to identify files of the distributable firmware bundle for firmware components applicable to a given machine, and selectively downloading only the identified files.
Claims20
A method comprising:
- selectively downloading only a metadata portion of a remotely web-hosted distributable firmware bundle;
- reviewing the downloaded metadata portion to identify files of the distributable firmware bundle for firmware components applicable to a given machine;
- and
- selectively downloading only the identified files.
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A non-transitory machine readable storage medium having stored thereon machine readable instructions to cause a computer processor to:
- fetch metadata of a remotely web-hosted archive file;
- analyze the downloaded metadata portion to identify sub-regions of the archive file applicable to a given machine;
- and
- fetch the identified sub-regions without fetching the entire archive file.
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A system comprising:
- a processing resource;
- and
- a memory resource storing machine readable instructions to cause the processing resource to:
- fetch a portion of a complete firmware bundle, wherein the portion includes a boot record volume descriptor, a primary volume descriptor and partition information;
- determine, based on the downloaded portion, sub-regions of the firmware bundle that include information on relevant firmware components for the system;
- and
- fetch the determined sub-regions without fetching the complete firmware bundle.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.