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US 11,109,428 B2Granted
Blade computing system with wireless communication between blades within a blade enclosure
AssigneeIntel Corporation
InventorsTelesphor Kamgaing, Rahul Khanna
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Abstract
A blade computing system is described with a wireless communication between blades. In one embodiment, the system includes a first blade in the enclosure having a radio transceiver to communicate with a radio transceiver of a second blade in the enclosure. The second blade has a radio transceiver to communicate with the radio transceiver of the first blade. A switch in the enclosure communicates with the first blade and the second blade and establishes a connection through the respective radio transceivers between the first blade and the second blade.
Claims15
An apparatus comprising:
- a blade enclosure;
- a first blade and a second blade in the enclosure, the first blade having a radio transceiver on a front side of the first blade, and the second blade having a radio transceiver on a front side of the second blade, the front side of the second blade facing directly towards front side of the second blade, and the radio transceiver of the second blade to communicate directly with the radio transceiver of the first blade, wherein a beam between the radio transceiver of the second blade and the radio transceiver of the first blade has a direct and unobstructed path directly between the radio transceiver of the second blade and the radio transceiver of the first blade;
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- a third blade in the enclosure, the third blade comprising a switch to communicate with the first blade and the second blade and to establish a direct connection through the respective radio transceivers between the first blade and the second blade, the direct connection between the radio transceiver of the first blade and the radio transceiver of the second blade, wherein the switch establishes the direct connection by assigning a direct radio path between the first blade and the second blade.
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A method comprising:
- receiving a request to connect from a first blade having a radio transceiver at a switch, the radio transceiver of the first blade on a front side of the first blade, wherein a second blade comprises the switch;
- sending a request to connect from the switch to a third blade having a radio transceiver on a front side of the third blade, the front side of the third blade facing directly towards front side of the first blade, and the first blade, the second blade, and the third blade being housed in a blade server enclosure, wherein a beam between the radio transceiver of the third blade and the radio transceiver of the first blade has a direct and unobstructed path directly between the radio transceiver of the third blade and the radio transceiver of the first blade;
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- establishing a direct connection by the switch through the respective radio transceivers between the first blade and the third blade, the direct connection between the radio transceiver of the first blade and the radio transceiver of the third blade, wherein the switch establishes the direct connection by assigning a direct radio path between the first blade and the third blade.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.