US Patent Issued on Oct. 27 for "Transferring workload from a baseboard management controller to a smart network interface controller" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,775,512, issued on Oct. 27.

"Transferring workload from a baseboard management controller to a smart network interface controller" was invented by Fred Allison Bower III (Durham, N.C.), Caihong Zhang (Shanghai), Ming Lei (Shanghai) and Chenyan He (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A baseboard management controller (BMC) may obtain hardware performance data for hardware devices installed in a server that includes the BMC, provide the hardware performance data to a smart network interface controller (Smart NIC) in the server, and receive from the Smart NIC a hardware failure alert that identifies a hardware device predicted to experi...