Hitachi Vantara Assigned Patent

Hitachi Vantara LLC, Santa Clara, CA, has been assigned a patent (11635969) developed by Hong, Francis Kin-Wing, Cruz, Arturo, and Zhao, Liren, Santa Clara, CA, for “systems and methods to update add-on cards firmware and collect hardware information on any servers with any OS installed or bare-metal servers.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “Systems and methods described herein are directed to upgrading one or more of add-on firmware and disk firmware for a server, which can involve connecting a port of the server to an isolated network, the isolated network dedicated to firmware upgrades for the server, caching onto cache memory of the server, an operating system received through the isolated network, booting the operating system on the server from the cache memory, conducting an Network File System (NFS) mount on the server to determine hardware information associated with the upgrading of the one or more of the add-on firmware and the disk firmware, and upgrading the one or more of the add-on firmware and the disk firmware based on the hardware information.”

The patent application was filed on 2020-01-23 (17/779119).