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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 18, 2023
Filed:
Jan. 11, 2018
Realtek Semiconductor Corporation, Hsinchu, TW;
Zhen-Ting Huang, Yunlin County, TW;
Chun-Hao Lin, New Taipei, TW;
Er-Zih Wong, Taichung, TW;
Hung-Chang Chen, Hsinchu County, TW;
REALTEK SEMICONDUCTOR CORPORATION, Hsinchu, TW;
Abstract
A docking station includes a network interface controller (NIC), a dock-side controller and a dock-side connector interface. The NIC is configured to transmit one or more management component transport protocol (MCTP) packets via a system management bus (SMbus). The dock-side controller is electrically coupled to the SMbus, and configured to encode the one or more MCTP packets to one or more vendor specific protocol (VSP) packets. The dock-side connector interface is electrically coupled to the dock-side controller, and configured to transmit the one or more VSP packets to an electrical device to control a basic input output system (BIOS) of the electrical device on the condition that the electrical device is connected to the docking station via the dock-side connector interface.