Universal serial bus system interface for intelligent...

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2006-05-15

2011-11-29

Zele, Krista (Department: 2453)

Electrical computers and digital processing systems: multicomput

Computer-to-computer protocol implementing

C709S226000, C709S203000, C370S392000, C370S386000, C345S501000, C710S014000, C713S324000

Reexamination Certificate

active

08069257

ABSTRACT:
Methods, systems, and apparatus are disclosed for utilizing a universal serial bus (“USB”) transport as a system interface to transmit and receive IPMI commands and responses. An intelligent platform management interface (“IPMI”) transport library is provided that receives IPMI commands from IPMI client applications executing on a host. The IPMI commands are encapsulated into vendor specific small computer systems interface (“SCSI”) commands and transmitted over the USB transport to a virtual mass storage device provided by a management device. In response to receiving the vendor specific commands, IPMI firmware executing on the management device extracts the IPMI commands and executes them. A response may be returned to the host by encapsulating the IPMI response into a vendor specific SCSI response and transmitting the response to the host.

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