Patent ID: 7675937

Claim:
A computer program product, residing on a computer usable storage medium, comprising: program code for 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 from the computer, wherein the computer is a server blade in a multi-blade chassis; program code for, in response to the ICOM port receiving the outgoing communication traffic, the first SMI redirecting the outgoing communication traffic to a virtual communication port generated by the BIOS controller chipset, wherein the virtual communication port is a virtual universal serial bus (USB) communication port; program code for transmitting the outgoing communication traffic from the virtual communication port to a real communication port associated with a remote system; program code for transmitting the outgoing communication traffic from the virtual USB communication port to a USB host controller in the computer; program code for transmitting the outgoing communication traffic from the USB host controller to an Ethernet MAC Input/Output (I/O) device in the computer; program code for transmitting the outgoing communication traffic from the Ethernet MAC I/O device to a management module associated with the multi-blade chassis; program code for transmitting the outgoing communication traffic from the management module to the real communication port associated with the remote system; program code for receiving an incoming communication traffic, destined to the computer in the multi-computer chassis, at the COM port associated with the remote system; program code for encapsulating the incoming communication traffic at the remote system; program code for transmitting the encapsulated incoming communication traffic from the remote system to the Ethernet I/O device via the management module; program code for decoding the encapsulated incoming communication traffic in the Ethernet I/O device; program code for transmitting the decoded incoming communication traffic from the Ethernet I/O device to the USB device in the computer; program code for transmitting the incoming communication traffic from the USB device to the USB host controller; program code for detecting, by the BIOS controller chipset, the incoming communication traffic being received by the USB host controller; and program code for, in response to the BIOS controller chipset detecting the receipt of the incoming communication traffic at the USB host controller, the BIOS controller chipset issuing a second SMI to the USB host controller redirecting the incoming communication traffic from the USB host controller to the ICOM port.