ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,729, issued on May 27, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).
"Sideband bare metal provisioning" was invented by Tianhe Li (Shanghai), Zhuo Zhang (Shanghai), Lixia Hu (Shanghai) and Kai Zhou (Shanghai).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed methods respond to detecting the receipt, by a management controller, such as a baseboard management controller (BMC), of an information handling system, of a provisioning request from a management client, by rebooting the information handling system to initiate a Universal Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) boot sequence that is configured to load an EFI application, referred to...