Patent ID: 11953992
Assignee: DELL PRODUCTS L.P.
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 0:
1. A method comprising:
collecting operational data from one or more user devices;
receiving one or more modifications to at least one of firmware and software for the one or more user devices from one or more vendor devices;
staging the one or more modifications in one or more servers;
identifying applicability of the one or more modifications to respective ones of the one or more user devices;
generating one or more virtual instances of respective ones of the one or more user devices based at least in part on the operational data and the identifying;
sending the one or more modifications to the one or more virtual instances from the one or more servers;
testing the one or more modifications on the one or more virtual instances to determine if there are one or more issues with the one or more modifications;
pushing, in response to a determination that the one or more issues with the one or more modifications are absent, the one or more modifications to the one or more user devices; and
generating, in response to a determination that the one or more issues with the one or more modifications are present, a notification for the one or more user devices at least one of indicating the presence of the one or more issues with the one or more modifications and specifying one or more available dependencies for removing the one or more issues;
wherein the steps of the method are executed by at least one processing device operatively coupled to at least one memory.