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Date of Patent:
Oct. 31, 2023

Filed:

Oct. 15, 2021
Applicant:

Lenovo Global Technology (United States) Inc., Morrisville, NC (US);

Inventors:

Fred Allison Bower, III, Durham, NC (US);

Ming Lei, Shanghai, CN;

Michael Gerard Demeter, Roswell, GA (US);

Scott A. Piper, Kirkland, WA (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/4401 (2018.01); H04L 9/32 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 9/3265 (2013.01); G06F 9/4401 (2013.01); H04L 9/3268 (2013.01);
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.


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