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System and method for providing a wireless device connection in a server rack of a data center

  • US 10,009,766 B2
  • Filed: 11/09/2015
  • Issued: 06/26/2018
  • Est. Priority Date: 11/09/2015
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. An information handling system, comprising:

  • a host processing complex to instantiate a hosted processing environment;

    a managed element;

    a management controller to manage the managed element out of band from the hosted processing environment, and configured in a first mode to instantiate a Universal Serial Bus (USB) class network interface card (NIC) driver, and in a second mode to instantiate a Bluetooth Host Controller Interface (HCI); and

    a wireless management module coupled to the management controller, the wireless management module including a wireless transceiver to wirelessly couple a mobile device to the management controller, the wireless management module configured;

    to couple to the management controller as a USB NIC device when the mobile device is a WiFi device; and

    to couple to the management controller as a Bluetooth dongle device when the mobile device is a Bluetooth device;

    wherein the management controller receives a direction from the mobile device to manage the managed element.

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