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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:
Sep. 02, 2008
Filed:
Sep. 27, 2004
Applicants:
Yinglin Yang, Plano, TX (US);
Jinsaku Masuyama, Round Rock, TX (US);
Inventors:
Yinglin Yang, Plano, TX (US);
Jinsaku Masuyama, Round Rock, TX (US);
Assignee:
Dell Products L.P., Round Rock, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 11/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Remote access to a platform management system, for example via an intelligent platform management interface (IPMI), is maintained despite a failure affecting a local area network (LAN) controller. Failover to a second, operational LAN controller can be achieved by monitoring the status of the LAN controllers, and using a selector to couple a different LAN controller to a platform controller if the LAN controller currently coupled to the platform controller fails.