Patents by Inventor Ashok N. Potti

Ashok N. Potti has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Systems and methods for reliable redundant management controller firmware update
    Patent number: 10387257
    Abstract: A firmware update of multiple processing nodes in an information handling system may include writing updated firmware images to reserve memory partitions associated with each node, rolling all nodes back to the existing firmware images if writing of an updated firmware image fails, booting each node into the updated firmware image stored on its associated reserve memory partition if writing of updated firmware images succeeds, booting each node into the updated firmware image stored on its associated reserve memory partition, rolling all nodes back to the existing firmware images if booting of an updated firmware image fails, copying the updated firmware images from reserve memory partitions associated with each node to the respective working memory partition associated with each node if booting of updated firmware images succeeds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2019
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Michael E. Brown, Senthil Kumar, Marshal F. Savage, Ashok N. Potti