US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on Jan. 20 for "Communication protocol for inference of physical slot identifier by baseboard management controller of blade server" (California, Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,531,938, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Communication protocol for inference of physical slot identifier by baseboard management controller of blade server" was invented by Scott Phuong (Belmont, Calif.), Krishna Prasad Pidamale (Pleasanton, Calif.), Kevin Russell Babst (Portland, Ore.), Jared Lewis (Beaverton, Ore.) and Anant Thakar (Los Altos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure describes techniques for interoperability of a blade server in a server chassis, where IOMs of the server chassis do not provide dedicated pins for communicating a physical slot ID to the blade se...