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US 2020/0050460 A1Published application
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 said USB port to said USB device controller of said BMC.
2 more elements
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 said BMC;
- connecting a data processing device with said server via said USB port;
- and
- downloading a firmware to said BMC through said data processing device via said USB port.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.