Patent ID: 7400648
Filing Date: 2008-07-15
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method comprising: configuring a Basic Input/Output System (BIOS) controller chipset in a computer to generate a first System Management Interrupt (SMI) when an internal communication port (ICOM port) receives an outgoing communication traffic; in response to the ICOM port receiving the outgoing communication traffic, the first SMI redirecting the outgoing communication traffic to a Universal Serial Bus (USB) host in the computer; transmitting the outgoing communication traffic from the USB host controller to a USB device in the computer, the USB device being capable of only internal communication between the USB host controller, via an internal USB compliant line, and an Ethernet input/output (I/O) device in the computer via an internal Inter Integrated Circuit (I transmitting the outgoing communication traffic from the USB device to the Ethernet I/O device; encapsulating the outgoing communication traffic in the Ethernet I/O device; transmitting, on a sideband channel that is different from a management channel, the encapsulated outgoing communication traffic to a management module associated with the multi-computer chassis; transmitting the encapsulated outgoing communication traffic from the management module to a remote system; decoding the encapsulated outgoing communication traffic in the remote system; and transmitting the decoded outgoing communication traffic to a real physical communications port (COM port) associated with the remote system.