Upgradeable persistent virtual storage

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 8732285
APP PUB NO 20070168481A1
SERIAL NO

11334613

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A method to provide at least one of a scalable, a replaceable, and an upgradeable device via remote access solution virtual media includes emulating a physical plug-and-play universal serial bus device to a managed host server system as a virtual media device using firmware in a service processor and a virtual media engine of a remote access solution comprising a remote access card disposed in the managed host server system, the physical plug-and-play universal serial bus device disposed in the remote access card, proxying data communications between the physical plug-and-play universal serial bus device and the managed host server system through the service processor, and allowing remote access to the physical plug-and-play universal serial bus device by a remote management client using the firmware in the service processor and the virtual media engine via an out-of-band dedicated remote access card network interface card disposed in the remote access card.

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DELL PRODUCTS L PONE DELL WAY ROUND ROCK TX 78682

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Lambert, Timothy Austin, US 12 273
Yousif, Alaa Pflugerville, US 7 117

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