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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 06, 2007
Filed:
Apr. 03, 2003
Applicant:
David Francis Tobias, Pflugerville, TX (US);
Inventor:
David Francis Tobias, Pflugerville, TX (US);
Assignee:
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/24 (2006.01); G06F 15/177 (2006.01); G06F 1/24 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A baseboard management controller (BMC) integrated circuit hosts a BIOS ROM interface. The BMC includes a bus interface responsive to an access to an address range associated with host operations, e.g., an address range associated with BIOS. The BMC includes an interface coupled to communicate with a remote computer for receiving BIOS updates and/or a BIOS patches from the remote computer. Multiple computers may each include a BMC-hosted BIOS ROM interface and may be coupled to a remote computer for communicating BIOS information between the BMCs and the remote computer.