Patent ID: 11971839
Assignee: VMWARE LLC
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 0:
1. A non-transitory computer-readable medium comprising machine-readable instructions, wherein the instructions, when executed by at least one processor, cause a computing device to at least:
identify, by firmware instructions executed by the at least one processor, that a bridge device is on a segment corresponding to a root complex of the computing device;
detect, by the firmware instructions, that an endpoint device is connected to a bus downstream from the bridge device;
assign, by the firmware instructions, a synthetic segment identifier to the bus based at least in part on the endpoint device being identified as connected to the bus; and
generate, by the firmware instructions, synthetic address data that includes the synthetic segment identifier, and sets a bus identifier of the bus to zero regardless of a hierarchical position of the bus in a standard peripheral component interconnect express (PCIe) bus hierarchy.