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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.

Date of Patent:
Sep. 01, 2015

Filed:

May. 17, 2013
Applicant:

Dell Products, Lp, Round Rock, TX (US);

Inventors:

Robert W. Hormuth, Cedar Park, TX (US);

Robert L. Winter, Burnet, TX (US);

Shawn J. Dube, Austin, TX (US);

Bradley J. Booth, Austin, TX (US);

Geng Lin, Cupertino, CA (US);

Jimmy Pike, Georgetown, TX (US);

Assignee:

Dell Products, LP, Round Rock, TX (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 13/00 (2006.01); G06F 13/14 (2006.01); G06F 13/40 (2006.01); G06F 15/173 (2006.01); G06F 1/04 (2006.01); G06F 9/44 (2006.01); H04L 12/931 (2013.01); G06F 13/28 (2006.01); G06F 21/57 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 13/4027 (2013.01); G06F 1/04 (2013.01); G06F 9/4401 (2013.01); G06F 13/00 (2013.01); G06F 13/28 (2013.01); G06F 13/4022 (2013.01); G06F 15/17331 (2013.01); G06F 21/572 (2013.01); H04L 49/00 (2013.01);
Abstract

A remote component controller of a server rack includes a real time clock information unit to maintain real clock time and to respond to requests for real time clock information, and a communication module to receive over a communication link a request from a processing node of the server rack for real time clock information, to forward the request to the real time clock information unit, to receive from the real time clock information unit a response to the request, and to transmit the response to the request to the processing node over the communication link.


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