Patents by Inventor HAO-RUI YANG

HAO-RUI YANG 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).

  • Patent number: 9430221
    Abstract: A method for updating firmware of a rackmount server system is disclosed herein and is suited to update a firmware of an update-needed chip module by a control chip module. The method includes the following steps of: sending a plurality of packets constituting a renewed firmware to the update-needed chip module by the control chip module; sending a command of verifying the plurality of packets to the update-needed chip module by the control chip module; acquiring a plurality of verification messages, corresponding to the plurality of packets, from the update-needed chip module by the control chip module; and determining whether all of the plurality of verification messages corresponding to the plurality of packets are correct or not by the control chip module, thereby making sure whether the plurality of packets received by the update-needed chip module are incorrect or not.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2016
    Assignees: INVENTEC (PUDONG) TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION, INVENTEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hao-Rui Yang
  • Publication number: 20160026459
    Abstract: A method for updating firmware of a rackmount server system is disclosed herein and is suited to update a firmware of an update-needed chip module by a control chip module. The method includes the following steps of: sending a plurality of packets constituting a renewed firmware to the update-needed chip module by the control chip module; sending a command of verifying the plurality of packets to the update-needed chip module by the control chip module; acquiring a plurality of verification messages, corresponding to the plurality of packets, from the update-needed chip module by the control chip module; and determining whether all of the plurality of verification messages corresponding to the plurality of packets are correct or not by the control chip module, thereby making sure whether the plurality of packets received by the update-needed chip module are incorrect or not.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2014
    Publication date: January 28, 2016
    Inventor: HAO-RUI YANG