176 results about "Firmware version" patented technology

Systems and methods for updating a network appliance. The method includes receiving an update request from a network appliance, wherein the update request includes at least one self-signed certificate; executing an authentication procedure to authenticate the network appliance; providing the network appliance with at least one updated certificate associated with a controller device; enabling communication between the appliance and a controller device; and providing to the appliance a network resource location indicator of a firmware repository including an updated firmware version to allow the appliance to obtain the updated firmware version.

The disclosure relates generally to firmware updates for conference room devices. When there is a firmware problem for a conference room device that needs fixing, it may result in the conference room sitting unused until an end user submits a ticket to information technology (IT). The present disclosure proposes a more proactive approach. For instance, a user may bring a laptop to a conference room for a meeting that uses a meeting application. The laptop may detect the presence of peripherals in the conference room and, in response, iterate through the different peripherals and discover current firmware version and health status for the peripherals. The laptop may then report to an IT server, for each peripheral, 1) peripheral identifier, 2) firmware version, 3) health status, 4) meeting room location. The IT server may then determine if any firmware fixes should be applied.

The invention provides a firmware set updating method, which is executed in a BMS (Baseboard Management Controller), and comprises the following steps: acquiring a firmware set and storing the firmware set in a nonvolatile memory, the firmware set comprising more than one firmware, and each firmware comprising more than one version; identifying the firmware type and the firmware version of each firmware in the firmware set; according to a preset firmware adaptation table and the firmware type and the firmware version of each firmware in the firmware set, generating a recommended update combination formed by each firmware in the firmware set; and according to a user instruction, reading the firmware selected by the user from the nonvolatile memory for automatic updating or reading the firmware corresponding to the recommended updating combination from the nonvolatile memory for automatic updating. According to the firmware set updating method provided by the invention, the recommended updating combination in the firmware set can be automatically identified and the firmware updating process can be automatically executed, so that the operation and maintenance cost can be saved.

The invention provides a configuration method and device for a basic input and output system. The method comprises the following steps: acquiring a target customized configuration identification number; according to the target customized configuration identification number, obtaining a corresponding target configuration parameter value; sending the target customized configuration identification number and the target configuration parameter value to a memory for storage; receiving a configuration modification instruction sent by the to-be-configured basic input / output system under the condition of determining that the to-be-configured basic input / output system completes the burning process of the preset universal firmware version; and in response to the configuration modification instruction, determining a target customized configuration identification number stored in the memory, and sending the target customized configuration identification number and the target configuration parameter value to the basic input / output system to be configured. According to the invention, the risk of mistaken modification in the customized configuration process is reduced.

The invention belongs to the technical field of server management and firmware upgrading, and particularly relates to a BMC firmware upgrading method and system in an offline state, and the method comprises the steps: firstly deploying an intelligent BMC firmware storage device in a server; then, the server detects that BMC firmware upgrading or repairing needs to be carried out, a specified abnormal request signal is sent to the intelligent BMC firmware storage device, and the intelligent BMC firmware storage device analyzes the abnormal request signal; the intelligent BMC firmware storage device generates a response, specifies a BMC firmware version according to the server, and sends corresponding BMC firmware version data to the BMC firmware; the BMC firmware receives the firmware version data and verifies the firmware version data; and the BMC firmware executes automatic upgrading according to the firmware version data, and writes new and verified BMC firmware version data into the BMC chip. Automatic upgrading and maintenance of the BMC firmware in the offline state are achieved, and the reliability, stability and efficiency of the server are improved.

The invention discloses a firmware upgrading method and device, equipment, a server and a storage medium. The firmware upgrading method comprises the steps that a first server sends a first data address to terminal equipment; the terminal device obtains a first data packet according to the first data address; the terminal equipment performs legality verification on the firmware upgrading process of the terminal equipment according to the first data packet; if the legality verification of the firmware upgrading process fails, the terminal equipment sends first error information to the first server; wherein the first error information is used for indicating that an error occurs in the firmware upgrading process; if the legality verification of the firmware upgrading process succeeds, the terminal device obtains a second data packet according to the first data address; wherein the second data packet is used for upgrading the target firmware in the terminal equipment to the target firmware version. According to the firmware upgrading method and device, the firmware upgrading process is subjected to legality verification before firmware upgrading, so that the success rate and reliability of firmware upgrading can be improved.

The invention discloses a firmware management system, a firmware management method, a firmware management product and firmware management equipment, relates to the technical field of servers, is applied to a multi-node server comprising mainboard nodes and logic devices, and comprises the following steps: respectively arranging two mutually redundant flash memories on each mainboard node of the multi-node server on a management board and the mainboard nodes, according to the invention, the management board is additionally provided with the cache memory for caching the target firmware and the logic device, so that a heterogeneous collaborative upgrading architecture is realized, and the flash memories corresponding to the nodes are arranged on the management board, so that the centralized management of the flash memories can be realized, and the upgrading efficiency is improved. According to the method, the firmware version alignment and management of each node in the multi-node server can be realized with little material change, the firmware upgrading efficiency is improved, meanwhile, a large amount of system operation and maintenance time is saved, and the influence on user services is reduced.

In one embodiment, a system determines a version identifier of a first firmware version at a complex programmable logic device (CPLD) executing the first firmware version. The system determines a second firmware version for the CPLD is available to the CPLD via a FOTA process, where a version identifier of the second firmware version is different from the version identifier of the first firmware version. The system performs a write operation to write data blocks corresponding to the second firmware version of the CPLD to a memory address of a data buffer of the CPLD in a block-by-block manner. The system instructs the CPLD to transfer the data blocks corresponding to the second firmware version from the data buffer to a configuration memory of the CPLD. The system causes the second firmware version at the configuration memory of the CPLD to load onto the CPLD.

A method includes detecting a startup of an apheresis machine; in response to detecting start up, transmitting data to a server; determining, based on the data, whether software of the apheresis machine is current; receiving, in response to the data, a response from the server; and preventing usage of apheresis machine if the response indicates the software is not current. The data transmitted to the server may include one or more of a data log, a firmware version identifier, and an error log. The response may include a lockout signal. The response may include a software update. The software update may include a firmware update. The method may include automatically initiating installation of the software update. The method may include ceasing prevention of usage of the apheresis machine following installation of the software update.

A process for management of Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices includes a management system for identifying, interrogating, and updating devices connected to one or more networks. The management system can include a data store for storing various data related to the devices and the various processes of the management system. The management system can include a controller for executing processes such as interrogation processes, firmware change processes, credential change processes, and other processes. The controller can determine versions of firmware and other configuration properties of a device and generate various profiles for updating the firmware and other configuration properties. The controller can determine upgrade paths for updating the firmware and other configuration properties from a first version to a second version, the upgrade paths including one or more intermediary versions for facilitating the upgrade path. The management system can update devices individually, on a device family basis, or on a system-wide basis.

The invention relates to a key device online upgrade supervision system and method based on the Internet of Things, and belongs to the technical field of the Internet of Things. The method specifically comprises the steps that current firmware version information is uploaded to a server according to a preset time interval, the server downloads the firmware upgrading information to a cache region according to the current firmware version information, an online upgrading instruction and the firmware upgrading information, the firmware upgrading information is authenticated, an authentication result is obtained, and when the authentication result is passed, the current firmware version information is uploaded to the server. Obtaining a sub-upgrade package according to the firmware upgrade information, obtaining a pre-upgrade list according to the sub-upgrade package, upgrading the key device according to the pre-upgrade list, monitoring real-time upgrade duration, optimizing the pre-upgrade list to obtain an optimized upgrade list when the real-time upgrade duration is greater than a threshold value, and updating the key device by the embedded device according to the optimized upgrade list. The key device is upgraded, so that the online upgrading of the key device is realized, and the working efficiency of equipment is improved.

Techniques for analyzing risk for devices within a managed environment are described. One example method includes receiving a provisioning request from a device including a device identifier, device credentials, and a current firmware revision, wherein the provisioning request indicates that the device is newly connected to the managed environment; verifying the authenticity of the device based at least in part on the device identifier and the device credentials; verifying that the current firmware revision of the device matches a master firmware revision associated with a type of the device; and determining a risk score associated with the device based at least in part on the device identifier, the device credentials, the current firmware revision of the device, and on whether any known vulnerabilities are associated with the type of the device.

The invention provides a firmware upgrading method and device for PLC (Programmable Logic Controller) equipment. The method comprises the following steps: receiving a remote online upgrading request which is sent by a client and aims at a plurality of pieces of PLC equipment accessing a PLC gateway; dividing the plurality of PLC devices into at least one PLC device group based on firmware version information in the remote online upgrading request; the firmware version information of the PLC devices contained in any PLC device group in the at least one PLC device group is the same; respectively acquiring at least one upgrade firmware file corresponding to the firmware version of the at least one PLC equipment group from the server, and broadcasting the acquired at least one upgrade firmware file, each PLC device in the plurality of PLC devices obtains the target upgrade firmware file corresponding to the PLC device group to which the PLC device belongs from the at least one upgrade firmware file, and firmware upgrade is completed. According to the method and the device, broadcast upgrading can be carried out on the PLC equipment, and the firmware upgrading efficiency of the PLC equipment is improved.

The invention discloses an initialized firmware upgrading method and device, a controller and a storage medium, and relates to the technical field of server firmware management.The corresponding initialized firmware version number is obtained according to an initialized firmware package carried in an initialized firmware upgrading instruction, and due to the fact that the initialized firmware has a version dependency relationship with controller firmware, the version number of the initialized firmware is not the version number of the initialized firmware; obtaining a first controller firmware version number of the controller firmware on which the initialized firmware version number depends; acquiring a second controller firmware version number of the current controller firmware, and if the first controller firmware version number is inconsistent with the second controller firmware version number, indicating that the version of the current controller firmware is incompatible with the initialized firmware corresponding to the initialized firmware version number, and needing to upgrade the current controller firmware; after the firmware of the controller is upgraded, the initialized firmware is upgraded according to the initialized firmware package. The upgrading efficiency is improved, and system faults are avoided.

The embodiment of the invention provides a firmware upgrading method and device, equipment and a storage medium, a to-be-upgraded function partition and a first physical address area of firmware are determined, and the to-be-upgraded function partition points to a second physical address area; obtaining an upgrade differential package from the server; writing the upgrading differential packet into a first physical address area; and under the condition of successful verification of the upgrade differential packet, changing the to-be-upgraded function partition from pointing to the second physical address area to pointing to the first physical address area, and obtaining an upgraded target function partition. When firmware upgrading is carried out, only the upgrading package corresponding to the to-be-upgraded function partition needs to be downloaded, the bandwidth is remarkably saved, the upgrading time is shortened, fine-grained function partition updating is achieved, coexistence of multiple versions of firmware is supported, system services do not need to be interrupted in the upgrading process, hot replacement of the function partition is achieved, and the upgrading efficiency is improved. And the system reliability and the service continuity are effectively improved.

The invention relates to a firmware upgrading method of a parallel system and the parallel system. The method comprises the following steps: reading a firmware version number of each device connected with a first device bus; determining device roles of the first device and each device based on the firmware version number of the first device, the firmware version number of each device and the bus communication addresses of all devices; wherein the device roles comprise an upgrade initiator, an upgrade receiver and a silence party; the firmware upgrading action corresponding to the device role of each device is executed, and the firmware information of the device corresponding to the upgrading initiator is used for upgrading the device corresponding to the upgrading receiver. By adopting the method, the upgrading failure risk caused by network instability can be avoided.

The invention belongs to the technical field of equipment upgrading, and discloses a unified cloud upgrading method based on multi-equipment serial communication. Comprising the following steps: S1, sending a broadcast silence mode instruction; s2, selecting a first device; s3, controlling the equipment to enter a firmware downloading mode; s4, downloading firmware to the equipment; s5, a restart instruction is sent to restart the device to operate the new firmware; s6, checking an upgrading result and controlling the equipment to enter a silent mode; s7, checking and switching equipment; s8, quitting the silent mode; according to the method, operation and maintenance personnel do not need to personally arrive at the place where the equipment is located for operation, batch orderly firmware upgrading can be conveniently and rapidly conducted on the equipment in a remote mode, the equipment supports running firmware version rollback, and it can be ensured that the equipment can run the last version of stable firmware once a hidden fault is triggered after new firmware runs.

Systems and methods are disclosed for automating firmware updating on a computing system. Specifically, the aspects and features disclosed allow a baseboard management controller (BMC) to automatically step through the local firmware versions of various components of a computing system and compare those versions with up-to-date firmware versions to see whether any of the local firmware versions should be replaced with the respective up-to-date firmware version. The up-to-date firmware versions can be obtained from vendor firmware server(s) either locally by the computing system (e.g., by a BMC or main processor of the computing system) or remotely. When up-to-date firmware versions are obtained remotely, a facilitator system can obtain the up-to-date firmware versions and save them to a removable storage device, which can be temporarily coupled to the BMC of the computing system to automatically update the firmware of the components of that computing system.

The invention provides a firmware recovery method and device and electronic equipment, and relates to the technical field of computers such as data recovery and software and hardware interaction. According to the specific implementation scheme, in response to device starting, a bootstrap program of a device is started; through the bootstrap program, the number of times that a target condition continuously appears on the device at present is obtained, and the target condition comprises that the device is restarted within a preset duration after the bootstrap program is started; and when the number of times reaches the preset number of times, recovering the firmware of the device from the current version to the target version. Therefore, the firmware version of the equipment can be recovered to the target version when the target condition continuously appears for multiple times at present, so that the equipment is recovered to normal operation, and the method is implemented through a bootstrap program and can be completed before the operation system is loaded, the operation system does not need to be normally loaded and operated by the equipment, the application range is wider, and the user experience is improved. And besides the bootstrap program of the equipment, the method does not need to depend on more software and hardware support, and the implementation mode is simple.

The invention provides a data processing method and an electronic device. The method comprises the steps of determining a plurality of second devices passing verification of a first device in a local area network; obtaining current firmware versions of the plurality of second devices, and determining a target device with the highest current firmware version in the first device and the plurality of second devices based on the current firmware versions of the plurality of second devices; obtaining firmware updating data of the target equipment; and based on the firmware updating data of the target device, updating the current firmware version of the second device of which the current firmware version is lower than that of the target device in the plurality of second devices.

The invention provides a server firmware version management method and a program product, and relates to the technical field of computers, the method comprises the following steps: obtaining current firmware version data of a server and firmware version data refreshed along with a line; if the current firmware version data of the server is inconsistent with the firmware version data refreshed along with the line, generating error reporting information; periodically acquiring historical firmware version data of the server; performing clustering analysis on the historical firmware version data by utilizing a clustering algorithm, and dividing similar data into the same cluster; and monitoring and acquiring new firmware version data of the server in real time, and if the new firmware version data deviates from the cluster to which the new firmware version data belongs, judging that the new firmware version data is abnormal data. By adopting the method provided by the invention, the firmware version can be checked, the firmware version information is ensured to be consistent with the expectation, and the firmware version management efficiency is improved.

The application provides a firmware version detection method and device, electronic equipment and a storage medium, and relates to the technical field of firmware detection. A firmware version detection method comprises the following steps: obtaining a corresponding element self-discovery register (CSR) design file based on a target configuration of a current product line server; the CSR design file comprises a latest version CSR firmware package corresponding to the target configuration, a firmware version table and a CSR self-checking program; updating the firmware in the server based on the latest version CSR firmware package to obtain a target server; determining a CSR target version in the target server based on the CSR self-checking program; comparing the CSR target version with the latest version CSR in the firmware version table, and determining a version detection result of the firmware based on the comparison result. Thus, the stability and reliability of the server can be improved, and the use performance of the server can be optimized.

This invention discloses a firmware update method, an electronic device, and a storage medium. The firmware update method includes obtaining a firmware update program; executing the firmware update program to enter a firmware update file system; and when device information of the storage device is obtained in the firmware update file system and a firmware version update command is received, updating the firmware of the storage device to the target firmware version while retaining all storage data and serial number of the storage device. This application simplifies firmware updates by automatically updating the storage device's firmware to the target firmware version upon receiving a firmware version update command, while retaining all storage data and serial number. This allows users to update firmware locally without further intervention, reducing the complexity of firmware updates.

The embodiment of the invention provides a firmware version upgrading method and system and a photovoltaic robot, and relates to the technical field of photovoltaics. According to the firmware version upgrading method, the difference file is generated according to the current firmware version information and the firmware version information of the new firmware version, the data size of the difference file is far smaller than the data size of a complete firmware program, and therefore the firmware version upgrading efficiency is improved. Moreover, according to the firmware version upgrading method provided by the embodiment of the invention, the size of the fragment is adjusted according to the communication quality value, and the differential file is cut into a plurality of fragment files for transmission. When the communication quality is good, the size of the fragments can be properly increased, the number of the fragments is reduced, and the transmission overhead is reduced; when the communication quality is general (for example, network fluctuation occurs), the size of the fragment can be properly reduced, transmission interruption or failure caused by the too large fragment is avoided, and therefore the upgrading stability of the firmware version is improved.

The invention provides a server instance firmware parallel test method and electronic equipment. In some embodiments of the present disclosure, in response to a firmware test instruction, physical hardware resources of a target server are allocated to a plurality of instances; wherein each instance comprises independent hardware resources, and a plurality of firmware testing environments which are mutually independent in logic are constructed on the same physical server; firmware mirror images corresponding to the instances are loaded, firmware starting processes corresponding to the instances are executed according to the firmware mirror images corresponding to the instances, each instance comprises independent hardware resource mapping and firmware mirror images, and different firmware versions can be started in the same physical server in parallel; issuing a firmware test case to the instance; firmware testing is carried out on the instances according to the firmware testing cases corresponding to the instances, and firmware testing results corresponding to the instances are obtained; the firmware testing cost is reduced, and the resource utilization rate is increased.

The application discloses a decoupling method, device, program product, server and storage medium, and relates to the field of servers. In view of the problem that the close coupling between a BMC and a BIOS causes the firmware versions of both to have to be kept in synchronization at all times, a decoupling method is provided, which introduces semantic hash values to replace field names to perform accurate matching of fields. Because the semantic hash values can represent the essential meaning of the fields better than the field names, the semantic hash values do not require complete consistency of surface names. Therefore, replacing the field names with the semantic hash values to perform field matching can improve compatibility and also enable automatic renaming of the field names. Based on this, the method can reduce the coupling between the BIOS and the BMC, so that the BMC and the BIOS versions can be upgraded independently and do not need to be maintained synchronously, thereby significantly reducing operation and maintenance costs.

1. Name of the product in this design: System Information Graphical User Interface for Electronic Devices. 2. Purpose of this design: To display a graphical user interface. 3. The key design features of this product are the interface content in the graphical user interface. 4. Images or photos that best illustrate the design key points: Interface state change diagrams. 5. The rest of the design is standard, omitting the rear view, left view, right view, top view, and bottom view. 6. Purpose of the graphical user interface: An information interface used to display system information. 7. Human-computer interaction method of graphical user interface: The main view is the central page of system information; by clicking the "Settings" button in the upper right corner of the main view, you can enter the interface change state diagram; the interface change state diagram will display information such as "product model", "operating system", "APP version", "firmware version", "MAC address" and "configuration table version" of the "smart central control".

The invention discloses a server detection method and a program product. Acquiring a hardware fingerprint vector and an operation parameter vector of the server, and determining an equipment state detection model corresponding to the server; wherein the hardware fingerprint vector comprises an equipment manufacturer code, a mainboard model code and a firmware version code; the operation parameter vector comprises a voltage ripple, a clock skew rate, a bus load rate and an environment temperature and humidity parameter; inputting the hardware fingerprint vector and the operation parameter vector into an equipment state detection model to obtain an equipment operation state of the server; wherein the equipment operation state comprises a normal state and at least one fault state; and determining a target response operation corresponding to the equipment running state of the server, and executing the target response operation. Therefore, the intelligent detection of the server can be realized, the potential hardware degradation risk in the server is avoided in time, and the accuracy of server detection is improved.

This application proposes a segmented OTA upgrade method and system adapted to zero-wait-area constraints. The method is applied to a terminal device, which includes flash memory with both zero-wait-area and non-zero-wait-area areas. The method includes: responding to a boot signal from the terminal device, calling a bootloader to read an OTA status flag from the non-zero-wait-area; if the OTA status flag is a first download flag, reading a program startup status flag from the non-zero-wait-area; if the program startup status flag is a first startup flag, calling a quick-write program to rewrite the program startup status flag from the first startup flag to a second startup flag, and starting the main program of the terminal device; responding to a successful boot signal from the main program, rewriting the program startup status flag from the second startup flag back to the first startup flag; if the OTA status flag is a second download flag, downloading a new firmware version for OTA upgrade. This application enables segmented OTA upgrades adapted to zero-wait-area constraints.

To reduce waste of processing time required for updating firmware of a sub-substrate, and to maintain consistency of firmware between sub-substrates.SOLUTION: The PC120 for maintenance makes the secure card substrate 111 read the version information of the firmware of the plurality of sub-substrates B, C113, 114 and transmit it to the PC120 for maintenance, selects the sub-substrate C114 for executing the update of the firmware according to the version information of the plurality of sub-substrates B, C113, 114, transfers a firmware update file to the secure card substrate 111, and then requests the secure card substrate 111 to execute an update sequence. In the update sequence, the firmware update file is transferred to the selected sub board C114, and the firmware is updated based on the firmware update file.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 2