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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 27, 2018
Filed:
Jul. 27, 2015
Lenovo Enterprise Solutions (Singapore) Pte. Ltd., Singapore, SG;
Antonio Abbondanzio, Raleigh, NC (US);
Patricia M. Genovese, Cary, NC (US);
Gregory B. Pruett, Raleigh, NC (US);
Lenovo Enterprise Solutions (Singapore) Pte. Ltd., Singapore, SG;
Abstract
Capturing physical inventory in a data center includes: establishing a proximity-based data communications connection with a service processor of a server, the server installed at a location within a server rack; retrieving an identifier of the server via the proximity-based data communications connection; capturing, with a camera of the mobile computing device, a digital image of the server in the server rack; identifying, from the digital image, the location of the server within the server rack; and storing the identified location of the server within the server rack in association with the retrieved identifier.