Patent ID: 9043776
Filing Date: 2015-05-26
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A computing system for transferring files to a baseboard management controller (‘BMC’), the computing system including a computer processor and computer memory, the computing system also including a BMC configured to carry out the steps of: receiving, via a first data communications bus, a request to initiate an update of the computing system; identifying an area in the computer memory within the computing system for storing an update file; and transmitting, to an operating system of the computing system via a second data communications bus, a request to register the BMC as a virtual memory device, wherein the virtual memory device is accessible to the operating system and applications executed by the computing system; receiving, responsive to a write operation to the virtual memory device via the second data communications bus, the update file; and writing the update file to the identified area in the computer memory.