Mechanism for facilitating dynamic and trusted cloud-based extension upgrades for computing systems

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-8949818-B2
Application number	US-201213539201-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 29, 2012
Priority date	Jun 29, 2012
Publication date	Feb 3, 2015
Grant date	Feb 3, 2015

Abstract

A mechanism is described for facilitating dynamic and trusted cloud-based extension upgrades for computing systems according to one embodiment of the invention. A method of embodiments of the invention includes detecting a computing device needing an upgrade. The upgrade may relate to a hardware component at the computing device needing an upgrade element for the upgrade. The method may further include calling a first cloud server to provide the upgrade over a network. The first cloud server may have first resources including the upgrade element. The method may further include facilitating the hardware component to access the upgrade element at the first cloud server without having to upgrade or replace the hardware component.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A processor-implemented method comprising:
detecting a hardware component at a computing device needing an upgrade, wherein the upgrade relates to seeking an upgraded hardware element to replace an existing hardware element of the hardware component;
calling, over a network, a plurality of cloud servers serving as extension cloud servers to determine whether one or more of the plurality of cloud servers are capable of offering the upgraded hardware element…

Assignees

• Chhabra Jasmeet
• Intel Corp

Inventors

• Chhabra Jasmeet

Classifications

• G06F8/656

  Physics · mapped topic

• G06F11/3031

  Physics · mapped topic

• G06F8/658

  Physics · mapped topic

• G06F8/64

  Physics · mapped topic

• H04L67/141

  Electricity · mapped topic