US Patent Issued to Red Hat on March 24 for "Automated boot image configuration and booting via a baseboard management controller in response to an unsolicited boot image" (Australian, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,475, issued on March 24, was assigned to Red Hat LLC (Raleigh, N.C.).

"Automated boot image configuration and booting via a baseboard management controller in response to an unsolicited boot image" was invented by Jacob Anders (Cairns, Australia) and Dmitry Tantsur (Dusseldorf, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A baseboard management controller (BMC) communicatively coupled to a computing device receives, from a provisioning computing device, an unsolicited boot image. The BMC stores the boot image in a volatile memory. In response to receiving the boot image, the BMC causes the computing device to boot from the boot image."

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