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US 7,065,078 B2Granted
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.
Claims18
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 by identifying a source address within the routing information, and selecting a destination address from a plurality of possible destination addresses based, at least in part, on the identified source address, wherein the source address is a physical address privately correlated with a virtual address of a control element sending the received datagram.
A method comprising:
- receiving a datagram through a platform management communication channel;
- analyzing at least a subset of the received datagram for information necessary to identify routing information of the received content by identifying a destination address within the received datagram and determining whether the identified destination address corresponds to a physical address in a host platform management architecture;
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- forwarding the datagram to the destination address denoted within the received datagram if it is determined to be a physical address within the host platform management architecture;
- resolving a physical address from a virtual address denoted by the destination address in the received datagram if the destination address is found to not be a physical address.
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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;
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- a switching engine, responsive to the control logic, to selectively couple any of a plurality of PM elements through a plurality of PM communication channels, wherein the switching engine selectively couples the plurality of PM communication channel to the control logic, to facilitate routing of datagrams among and between the PM elements.
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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;
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- a plurality of records, one or more for at least a subset of PM elements coupled with the apparatus, each of the plurality of records including one or more of an address domain field, a physical address field, a physical interconnect, a virtual address filed and/or a routing restriction field;
- wherein the control logic identifies a target element(s) by matching the routing information of the datagram to an address domain and/or a physical address within the management data structure.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.