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US 11,011,876 B2Granted
System and method for remote management of network interface peripherals
AssigneeDell Products L.P.
InventorsAndrew Butcher, Timothy M. Lambert, Lee Eric Ballard
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Abstract
Remote management of network interface peripheral cards uses physical pin reassignment and a dedicated management network. One or more physical pins in a connector may be dynamically redefined from an interface protocol to a different interface protocol. The dynamic redefinition allows existing input/output signals to be routed to the pins to provide remote management features.
Claims20
A peripheral card, comprising:
- a hardware processor;
- and
- a memory device accessible to the hardware processor, the memory device storing instructions that when executed cause the hardware processor to perform operations, the operations including:
- receiving a command sent via an inter-integrated circuit from a baseboard management controller;
- in response to the command sent via the inter-integrated circuit from the baseboard management controller:
- dynamically assigning a physical pin in a physical connector from a peripheral component interface express to a uniform serial bus interface without reassigning the remaining physical pins in the physical connector from the peripheral component interface express to the uniform serial bus interface;
- and
- routing a universal asynchronous receiver/transmitter interface through a uniform serial bus converter to the dynamically assigned physical pin;
- and
- receiving a remote management command via the peripheral component interface express from the baseboard management controller.
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A method, comprising:
- receiving, by a peripheral card, a command sent via an inter-integrated circuit from a baseboard management controller;
- in response to the command sent via the inter-integrated circuit from the baseboard management controller;
- dynamically assigning, by the peripheral card, a physical pin in a physical connector from a peripheral component interface express to a uniform serial bus interface without reassigning the remaining physical pins in the physical connector from the peripheral component interface express to the uniform serial bus interface;
- and
- routing a universal asynchronous receiver/transmitter interface through a uniform serial bus converter to the dynamically assigned physical pin;
- and
- receiving, by the peripheral card, a remote management command via the peripheral component interface express from the baseboard management controller.
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A memory device storing instructions that when executed cause a hardware processor to perform operations, the operations comprising:
- receiving a command sent via an inter-integrated circuit from a baseboard management controller;
- in response to the command sent via the inter-integrated circuit from the baseboard management controller:
- dynamically assigning a physical pin in a physical connector from a peripheral component interface express to a uniform serial bus interface without reassigning the remaining physical pins in the physical connector from the peripheral component interface express to the uniform serial bus interface;
- and
- routing a universal asynchronous receiver/transmitter interface through a uniform serial bus converter to the dynamically assigned physical pin;
- and
- receiving a remote management command via the peripheral component interface express from the baseboard management controller.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.