Patent ID: 7673023

Claim:
A service processor computing arrangement associated with a cellular multiprocessing cell, comprising: A) a scan machine coupled to communicate with processing hardware of the cellular multiprocessing cell, the scan machine comprising, an external communications interface; a first processor coupled to the external communications interfaces; remote scan software having instructions that cause the first processor to perform at least one of monitoring and configuration of the processing hardware; and a first remote install program having instructions that cause the first processor to receive update data via the external communications interface; and B) a service processing machine coupled to the external communications interface of the scan machine, the service processing machine comprising, a second processor; server control software having instructions that cause the second processor to perform at least one of monitoring and configuring the cellular multiprocessing cell via the scan machine; and a second remote install program having instructions that cause the second processor to send the update data to the scan machine, wherein the update data is applied to the remote scan software via the first remote install program.