Invention Grant
- Patent Title: System and method for providing a wireless failover of a management connection in a server rack of a data center
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Application No.: US14943689Application Date: 2015-11-17
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Publication No.: US09942935B2Publication Date: 2018-04-10
- Inventor: Matthew Bryan Gilbert , Hana Schuster Smith
- Applicant: Dell Products, LP
- Applicant Address: US TX Round Rock
- Assignee: DELL PRODUCTS, LP
- Current Assignee: DELL PRODUCTS, LP
- Current Assignee Address: US TX Round Rock
- Agency: Larson Newman, LLP
- Main IPC: H04L12/28
- IPC: H04L12/28 ; H04W76/02 ; H04L12/24 ; H04W76/06 ; H04L29/14 ; H04W12/06 ; H04L29/06

Abstract:
A server rack includes a first component including a host processor to provide a hosted environment and a first management system to provide a managed environment separate from the hosted environment, to establish a first wireless connection to a mobile device, to process a first management request from the mobile device in the managed environment, and to detect that the first wireless connection has unexpectedly terminated, and a second component including a second management system to receive an indication from the first management controller that the first wireless connection was unexpectedly terminated, to establish a second wireless connection to the mobile device in response to the indication, to receive a second management request from the mobile device, and to send the second management request to the first management system. The first management system being further to process the second management request in the managed environment.
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