US 12,147,290 B2
Capturing and using dynamic information to manage field replace units
Jyun-Jie Huang, Taoyuan (TW); Shu-Ming Chu, Taoyuan (TW); and Hsin-Yu Chang, Taoyuan (TW)
Assigned to QUANTA COMPUTER INC., Taoyuan (TW)
Filed by Quanta Computer Inc., Taoyuan (TW)
Filed on Feb. 13, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/168,557.
Prior Publication US 2024/0272973 A1, Aug. 15, 2024
Int. Cl. G06F 11/00 (2006.01); G06F 11/07 (2006.01)
CPC G06F 11/0727 (2013.01) [G06F 11/0769 (2013.01); G06F 11/0784 (2013.01); G06F 11/0787 (2013.01); G06F 11/079 (2013.01)] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A computer-implemented method for managing a compute system with field replace units, the computer-implemented method comprising:
receiving status information corresponding to the field replace units, the status information being collected from the field replace units in response to the compute system being powered on;
in response to a predetermined condition being met, sending, for each of the field replace units, one or more instructions to erase a dynamic portion of electrically erasable programmable read-only memory (EEPROM) located at a respective field replace unit, the EEPROM at the respective field replace unit having the dynamic portion and a read-only portion;
sending, for each of the field replace units, one or more instructions to write a portion of the status information corresponding to the respective field replace unit in the dynamic portion of the EEPROM at the respective field replace unit;
receiving a status request for one of the field replace units;
directing the status request to the one of the field replace units;
receiving status information directly from the one of the field replace units; and
using the received status information to satisfy the status request.