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US 7,353,377 B2Granted
Remotely providing basic input/output system to a client system
AssigneeIntel Corporation
InventorsSoo Keong Ong, Hai Ming Khor, Yoeng Haur Phuah, Wei Kee Law
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Abstract
In one embodiment, the present invention includes a method of initializing a system without a basic input/output system (BIOS) to vector to a memory dedicated to a network controller, requesting the BIOS from a remote source using code stored in the memory, and storing the BIOS in a volatile memory of the system.
Claims15
An apparatus comprising:
- a network controller to request a basic input/output system (BIOS) from a remote source if the network controller is within a system that does not include an on-board BIOS;
- a local memory dedicated to the network controller to store at least a portion of the BIOS, the local memory comprising a volatile memory;
- and
- said controller to request a BIOS update from said remote source and to enable execution of said update without restarting said apparatus.
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A system comprising:
- a network controller to request a basic input/output system (BIOS) and a BIOS update from a remote source if the network controller is within a system that does not include an on-board BIOS and said controller to enable execution of said update without restarting said system;
- a local memory dedicated to the network controller to store at least a portion of the BIOS, the local memory comprising a volatile memory;
- and
- a dynamic random access memory coupled to the network controller.
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An article comprising a machine-accessible storage medium containing instructions that if executed enable a system to:
- initialize the system without a basic input/output system (BIOS) to vector to a memory dedicated to a network controller;
- request a BIOS and a BIOS update from a remote source using code stored in the memory;
- store the BIOS and BIOS update in a volatile memory of the system;
- and
- execute said BIOS update without restarting said system.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.