Patent ID: 8219595
Filing Date: 2012-07-10
Classification: G06F,H05K

Abstract:
1. A method for efficient data access for use by server management applications, comprising: receiving, at an application machine, a schema from a service processor, wherein the schema includes a description of data the service processor can supply, how the data is organized, what data is read only and what data may be written, and a format of each data item; receiving a request for server data at the application machine; processing the request for server data on the application machine, wherein processing the request obtains data from the schema on the application machine; the application machine forming, in a self-describing format, a consolidated query using the schema to obtain information not in the schema; sending the consolidated query to the service processor; and receiving an updated schema at the application machine, where the updated schema was updated by the service processor in response to information in the consolidated query indicating that a version of the schema at the application machine is not up-to-date.