Patents by Inventor Donald Gerhart

Donald Gerhart 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).

  • Updating firmware of unsupported devices
    Patent number: 11334342
    Abstract: An information handling system may include an unsupported information handling resource that has not been qualified by a manufacturer of the information handling system for use with the information handling system. The system may execute a system update procedure configured to: download a vendor update package for the unsupported information handling resource; determine that the vendor update package requires an operating system different from a currently installed operating system of the information handling system; create a bootable medium comprising the operating system and the vendor update package; trigger a first reboot of the information handling system into the operating system of the bootable medium, wherein the bootable medium is configured to install the vendor update package; and trigger a second reboot of the information handling system into the currently installed operating system of the information handling system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Donald Gerhart, Santosh Gore, Raveendra Babu Madala, Alaa Yousif