Patents by Inventor Paul E. Finkelstein

Paul E. Finkelstein 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).

  • Automated operating system device driver updating system
    Patent number: 8584115
    Abstract: Generally speaking, systems, methods and media for updating device drivers of an operating system for a server computer system are disclosed. Embodiments may include a method for updating device drivers for a server computer system by a build server. Embodiments of the method may include determining whether device drivers for an operating system image source need to be updated, such as by crawling a vendor website. Embodiments may also include in response to determining that device driver updates need to be downloaded, scheduling a time for download of device driver updates. Embodiments of the method may also include downloading the scheduled device driver updates based on the scheduled time and storing the device driver updates in a device driver update database. Further embodiments of the method may include installing the operating system image source on a target server and installing the device driver updates on the target server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2013
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Paul E. Finkelstein, Susan M. Guy, Rajeev Puri, Hsiao C. Thio, Nelson Velazquez
  • Automated Operating System Device Driver Updating System
    Publication number: 20080098094
    Abstract: Generally speaking, systems, methods and media for updating device drivers of an operating system for a server computer system are disclosed. Embodiments may include a method for updating device drivers for a server computer system by a build server. Embodiments of the method may include determining whether device drivers for an operating system image source need to be updated, such as by crawling a vendor website. Embodiments may also include in response to determining that device driver updates need to be downloaded, scheduling a time for download of device driver updates. Embodiments of the method may also include downloading the scheduled device driver updates based on the scheduled time and storing the device driver updates in a device driver update database. Further embodiments of the method may include installing the operating system image source on a target server and installing the device driver updates on the target server.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2006
    Publication date: April 24, 2008
    Inventors: Paul E. Finkelstein, Susan M. Guy, Rajeev Puri, Hsiao C. Thio, Nelson Velazquez