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Method and apparatus to coordinate and authenticate requests for data

  • US 10,404,676 B2
  • Filed: 03/29/2016
  • Issued: 09/03/2019
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/29/2016
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. An apparatus comprising:

  • a baseboard management controller (BMC) having one or more processors;

    a request coordinator coupled to the BMC to intercept BMC requests received via a network interface and to provide intercepted requests to the BMC, the request coordinator comprising;

    a request parser to parse parameters for each of the BMC requests,one or more queues to store the requests while the BMC is servicing another BMC request, anda command submitter to send individual BMC requests to the BMC,wherein the BMC is operable to generate the responses to the BMC requests received from the request coordinator and to send the responses to the request coordinator;

    authentication check logic to authenticate each of the one or more queued requests; and

    an information forwarder to forward information received from the BMC in response to one request as a response to one or more other queued requests in one of the plurality of queues, wherein the information forwarder only forwards the information as the response to the one or more other queued requests for each of the one or more other queued requests that has been authenticated by the authentication check logic.

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