Patent ID: 9047190
Filing Date: 2015-06-02
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method of intrusion protection for a client blade, the client blade comprising: a client-side computer processor subsystem in a client-server architecture, the client blade implemented in a blade form factor, powered by a power supply, and coupled for data communications through a data communications network to a remote desktop apparatus, the remote desktop apparatus providing a user interface, the client blade also comprising a client blade microcontroller that provides an interface between a blade management module and client blade computer hardware, the client blade installed in a blade center, the blade center comprising the blade management module having power supply control capabilities, the blade center coupled for data communications to the client blade and to the remote desktop apparatus, the method comprising: receiving, by the blade management module from the client blade, notification of a loss of communications between the remote desktop apparatus and the client blade; responsive to the notification, accepting, by the blade management module from the remote desktop apparatus, an instruction to alter a power setting of the client blade; and responsive to the instruction, altering, by the blade management module, the power setting of the client blade.