Patent ID: 9626196
Date: 2017-04-18
CPC Classifications: G06F,H04L

Claim:
1. A client device for receiving broadcast management information, the client device comprising: a network module to analyze a network interface of the client device during a boot process of the client device to receive message fragments broadcast by a management server; a fountain decoding module to (i) store the message fragments in a firmware cache of the client device, (ii) decode the message fragments stored in the firmware cache to generate at least a part of a message using a fountain code decoding algorithm, and (iii) determine whether the message is complete in response to decoding of the message fragments stored in the firmware cache and generation of the at least a part of the message; and an update management module to (i) parse the message to identify management data included in the message by the management server in response to a determination that the message is complete, and (ii) apply the management data to the client device; wherein the network module is to analyze the network interface and the fountain code decoding module is to decode the message fragments and determine whether the message is complete a second time in response to a reboot of the client device.