Switched platform management architecture and related methods
AssigneeIntel Corporation
InventorsPete A. Hawkins, Colin N.B. Cook
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Abstract
A switched platform management architecture and related methods are generally described. In accordance with but one aspect of the present invention, a method is presented comprising receiving a datagram through an intelligent platform management communication channel, and analyzing at least a subset of the received datagram for information necessary to identify routing information of the received content.
Claims29
A method comprising:
- receiving a datagram through a platform management communication channel;
- and
- analyzing at least a subset of the received datagram for information necessary to identify routing information of the received content.
An apparatus comprising:
- a management data structure including content;
- and
- control logic, coupled with the management data structure, to compare routing information in a received platform management (PM) datagram with the content in the management data structure to identify one or more platform management target element(s) for the received datagram.
A storage medium comprising content which, when executed by an accessing machine, causes the machine to implement a switching element within an platform management architecture, the switching element including a management data structure including content, and control logic, coupled with the management data structure, to compare routing information in a received platform management datagram with the content in the management data structure to identify one or more target element(s) for the received datagram.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.