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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 31, 2023
Filed:
Oct. 15, 2021
Lenovo Global Technology (United States) Inc., Morrisville, NC (US);
Fred Allison Bower, III, Durham, NC (US);
Ming Lei, Shanghai, CN;
Michael Gerard Demeter, Roswell, GA (US);
Scott A. Piper, Kirkland, WA (US);
LENOVO GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY (UNITED STATES) INC., Morrisville, NC (US);
Abstract
Baseboard management controller ('BMC') group administration includes: receiving, by a member BMC from a leader BMC, a leader certificate and a request to join a group of the leader BMC, where the request is signed by the leader BMC and the leader certificate is signed by a certificate authority; authenticating, by the member BMC, the leader certificate and the request; and sending, by the member BMC, an acknowledgement to the leader BMC to join the leader BMC's group.