US Patent Issued to Dell Products on Nov. 25 for "Managing out of band software updates" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,493, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Managing out of band software updates" was invented by Rajaravi Chandra Kollarapu (Allen, Texas), Vinodkumar Vasudev Ottar (Mckinney, Texas), Adolfo Sandor Montero (Pflugerville, Texas), Richard M. Tonry (Georgetown, Texas), Abeye Teshome (Austin, Texas), Luis Antonio Valencia Reyes (Waxahachie, Texas), Bassem El-Azzami (Austin, Texas) and Mohit Arora (Frisco, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for updating a data processing system are disclosed. To update the data processing system, an out of band communication channel may be used by...