Patent ID: 11921582
Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 12:
13. A method implemented in firmware of a computer system for managing a value of a variable, the method comprising:
detecting a system management interrupt (SMI), causing the computer system to enter a system management mode, in which a request associated with the SMI is handled by the firmware;
determining that the SMI is generated by a BMC;
determining a cause of the SMI;
in response to determining that the cause of the SMI is associated with reading or writing a value of a variable;
sending a request to the BMC for one or more parameters associated with the variable;
in response to receiving the one or more parameters associated with the variable from the BMC,
reading the value of the variable or overwriting the value of the variable with a new value based on the cause of the SMI and the one or more parameters; and
sending the value or new value of the variable to the BMC, causing the BMC to pass the value or the new value of the variable to a second computer system over a network.