Patent ID: 8584115

Claim:
A method for updating device drivers for a computer system, the method comprising the steps of: a build server creating a list of current device drivers for an operating system image; the build server searching a pre-determined website for device driver updates for the operating system image using one or more stored keywords; the build server, responsive to finding a plurality of device driver updates for the operating system image, comparing the plurality of device driver updates with an exclusion filter, wherein the exclusion filter comprises an exclusion list indicating at least one device driver update of the plurality of device driver updates that is not to be scheduled for download; the build server, responsive to determining that a first device driver update of the plurality of device driver updates matches indicated by the exclusion list as not to be scheduled for download, updating the list of current device drivers for the operating system image to indicate the first device driver update on the list of current device drivers for the operating system image; the build server, responsive to determining that a second device driver update of the plurality of device driver updates is not indicated by the exclusion list, scheduling a time for downloading the second device driver update; the build server downloading the second device driver update at the scheduled time; and the build server storing the second device driver update in a database.