Hardware management interface

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9015793-B2
Application number	US-201213725722-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 21, 2012
Priority date	Dec 21, 2012
Publication date	Apr 21, 2015
Grant date	Apr 21, 2015

Abstract

A management controller of a computing device is identified on a network and queried for attributes of the computing device. The management controller is securely implemented in hardware of the computing device and is independent of a central processing unit (CPU) of the computing device. Data is received from the management controller that identifies one or more attributes of the computing device. A security policy of the network is implemented for the computing device based on the one or more attributes.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. At least one non-transitory machine accessible storage medium having instructions stored thereon, the instructions when executed on a machine, cause the machine to:
identify a first management controller of a first computing device on a network, wherein the first management controller is to be implemented in hardware of the first computing device and is outside control of a central processing unit (CPU) of the first computing device;
query the first manage…

Assignees

• Mcafee Inc

Inventors

• Von Bokern Vincent Edward
• Goel Purushottam
• Schrecker Sven

Classifications

• H04L63/20 Primary

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04L63/102

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04L63/0876

  Electricity · mapped topic