Patent ID: 11941391
Assignee: INTEL CORPORATION
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 14:
15. An out-of-band controller configured to be implemented on a bare metal platform on which a host operating system and applications in a tenant environment are executed, the bare metal platform provided by a cloud service provider and including one or more host central processing units (CPUs) coupled to a firmware storage device in which firmware including microcode (uCode) are stored, wherein the firmware storage device has a layout partitioned into a plurality of regions, including one or more uCode firmware volume (FV) regions, the out-of-band controller communicatively coupled to the firmware storage device and communicatively coupled to at least one host CPU, wherein the out-of-band controller is configured to:
during runtime operation of the host operating system,
receive uCode FV region layout information corresponding to the layout of the one or more uCode FV regions; and
write one or more uCode images in a uCode patch to a uCode FV region in the firmware storage device.