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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 13, 2013
Filed:
Sep. 30, 2009
Hai T. Phung, Round Rock, TX (US);
Anand Narayanan, Pflugerville, TX (US);
Charles D. Stracener, Pflugerville, TX (US);
Pritesh F. Prabhu, Round Rock, TX (US);
Sanjay Rao, Austin, TX (US);
Weijia Zhang, Round Rock, TX (US);
Hai T. Phung, Round Rock, TX (US);
Anand Narayanan, Pflugerville, TX (US);
Charles D. Stracener, Pflugerville, TX (US);
Pritesh F. Prabhu, Round Rock, TX (US);
Sanjay Rao, Austin, TX (US);
Weijia Zhang, Round Rock, TX (US);
Dell Products L.P., Round Rock, TX (US);
Abstract
Systems and methods that may be implemented to provide a plug-in architecture framework to allow extension of server management functionalities in a unified extension firmware interface ('UEFI') environment using available remote access controller memory space. The disclosed systems and methods may be implemented to provide a hardware and software interface to allow use of a plug-in framework in the embedded system management that may be run under the BIOS firmware and the UEFI environment. The disclosed systems and methods may also be implemented to provide a server management architecture that may be modified and enhanced over time, and/or that may also be employed to extend availability of the server management framework to third parties, as well as to extend support to original equipment manufacturer ('OEM') servers.