ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,224,900, issued on Feb. 11, was assigned to INSPUR SUZHOU INTELLIGENT TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Jiangsu, China).

"Method and system for configuring BMC IP addresses of bare metal servers, medium and device" was invented by Yashuai Lei (Jiangsu, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for configuring a BMC IP address of a bare-metal server, comprising: deploying an Ironic service and a TFTP service on a management control platform, and registering bare-metal servers based on serial numbers of the bare-metal servers and corresponding BMC IP addresses; in response to a boot signal of the bare-metal server, fetching, by a PXE client, a PXE ...