Patent ID: 8082440

Claim:
A method comprising: receiving a command from one of a chassis management module and a BIOS specifying a data region to be updated and a locking policy; determining if the data region is locked; if it is determined that the data region is not locked, implementing the locking policy and returning a session lock handle; receiving, from the one of the chassis management module and the BIOS, data for updating the data region, the session lock handle, and an offset; determining that the session lock handle is associated with the data region; writing the data to the data region at the offset; receiving a request for data of the updated data region from the other one of the chassis management module and the BIOS; determining if the updated data region is locked; and if it is determined that the updated data region is not locked, providing the data of the updated data region to the other one of the chassis management module and the BIOS.