Patent ID: 11880672
Assignee: DELL PRODUCTS L.P.
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 0:
1. A method comprising: performing, by a processor of an information handling system, an inventory of updateable components of the information handling system; retrieving an update path catalog for each updateable component of the updateable components, wherein the update path catalog includes information about published updates for the updateable component; determining, by a systems manager, that different versions of the published updates between a current version and a target version for the each updateable component of the updateable components is available according to the update path catalog; determining, by the systems manager, update recommendations based on the different versions of the published updates between the current version and the target version; and consolidating, by the systems manager, the update recommendations based on the different versions of the published updates into a consolidated update recommendation according to a criterion; and installing one or more of the published updates based on the consolidated update recommendation.