US 12,250,284 B2
Message management via a universal interface apparatus
Debajyoti Bagchi, Kolkata (IN); Shantanu Sinha, Kolkata (IN); Sandip Gajanan Andhale, Rockville, MD (US); Subodh Agarwal, Gaithersburg, MD (US); and Arijit Mukherjee, Balurghat (IN)
Assigned to International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US)
Filed by International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US)
Filed on Aug. 27, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/459,800.
Prior Publication US 2023/0065780 A1, Mar. 2, 2023
Int. Cl. H04L 67/565 (2022.01); H04L 51/066 (2022.01); H04L 67/00 (2022.01); H04L 69/08 (2022.01)
CPC H04L 67/565 (2022.05) [H04L 51/066 (2013.01); H04L 67/34 (2013.01); H04L 69/08 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
17. A universal interface apparatus configured to automatically facilitate device discovery within a computing infrastructure, the universal interface apparatus comprising:
a system-on-a-chip microcontroller configured to:
derive core message content from a distributed device message received from, and transmitted via a first type of hardware interface of a source device, wherein deriving the core message content from the distributed device message includes:
parsing the distributed device message to separate the core message content from hardware interface specific message content of the first type of hardware interface, wherein the core message content is message content from the distributed device message that is associated with virtual management system processing, exclusive of the hardware interface specific message content of the first type of hardware interface, to be converted to an open standard file format;
convert the derived core message content to open standard file format message content;
propagate the open standard file format message content to the virtualized management system via a second, different type of hardware interface than the first type of hardware interface of the source device; and
receive an open standard file format message response from the virtualized management system; and
a plurality of serial interface adapter boards configured to convert any serial aspect of the distributed device message to TTL format to facilitate derivation of the core message content.