Patents by Inventor Subramanian Ananthram

Subramanian Ananthram 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).

  • Method, system, and computer-readable medium for updating the firmware of a computing device via a communications network
    Patent number: 7363480
    Abstract: A method for updating the firmware of a computing device via a communications network is provided. A client computer having firmware to be updated boots into a preboot execution environment (“PXE”). A broadcast request is transmitted by the PXE that requests the network location of a server computer operative to provide a firmware update program. The broadcast request also requests the name of the firmware update program. Once the response to the broadcast request is received, the client computer transmits a request to the server computer for the firmware update program. The server computer transmits the firmware update program to the client computer. The client computer then executes the firmware update program in the PXE environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2008
    Assignee: American Megatrends, Inc.
    Inventors: Stefano Righi, Subramanian Ananthram