APPARATUS FOR SUPPORTING FIRMWARE UPDATE AND METHOD FOR THE SAME

    公开(公告)号:US20180349129A1

    公开(公告)日:2018-12-06

    申请号:US15944629

    申请日:2018-04-03

    Abstract: Disclosed herein is an apparatus for providing firmware update, which includes a state information analysis unit for analyzing device state information received from a firmware update target device and thereby acquiring information about a version of existing firmware and information about a storage unit of the firmware update target device; an image creation unit for creating a delta image in units of pages based on a flash memory page size included in the information about the storage unit and on a difference between the existing firmware and new firmware; an update information creation unit for creating update information in which an update method is specified; and a communication unit for transmitting the update information and the delta image to the firmware update target device in order to update the existing firmware of the firmware update target device based on the update method.

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