FLOATING PLATFORMS SPECIALLY ADAPTED

Brand	Owner	Address	Description
APEX	TELEDYNE INSTRUMENTS, INC.	1049 Camino Dos Rios Thousand Oaks CA 91360	Floating platforms specially adapted for carrying water temperature, salinity, depth, and/or biogeochemical measurement instruments; instruments and apparatus for measuring characteristics of bodies of water, namely, temperature, salinity, depth, and/or biogeochemical; and apparatus for monitoring temperature, salinity, depth, and/or biogeochemical of water;
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Technical Examples

Methods, apparatus, and systems for updating firmware for clustered computing platforms. Firmware provided on each platform is loaded for operating system runtime availability. The firmware update process begins by issuing an update directive that includes firmware update data to a first platform. That platform then interacts with firmware running on other platforms to update the firmware for those platforms, wherein communications between the platforms is enabled via an out-of-band (OOB) communication channel or network. In one embodiment, OOB communications are facilitated by a hidden execution mode known as the System Management Mode (SMM), which has the ability to receive and respond to periodic System Management Interrupts (SMI) and execute corresponding SMI handlers configured to support inter-platform communication in a manner that is transparent to operating systems running on the platforms. The method allows firmware to be updated across multiple platforms, such as server blades, using a single administrative action.