公开(公告)号：US11703910B2

公开(公告)日：2023-07-18

申请号：US15868986

申请日：2018-01-11

Applicant: Realtek Semiconductor Corporation

Inventor： Zhen-Ting Huang ,  Chun-Hao Lin ,  Er-Zih Wong ,  Hung-Chang Chen

IPC: G06F9/4401 ,  G06F13/40 ,  G06F13/42 ,  G06F13/38 ,  G06F1/16 ,  H04L101/622

CPC classification number: G06F1/1632 ,  G06F9/4411 ,  G06F13/385 ,  G06F13/4072 ,  G06F13/4081 ,  G06F13/4282 ,  G06F2213/0026 ,  G06F2213/0042 ,  G06F2213/3808 ,  H04L2101/622

Abstract: A docking station includes a network interface controller (NIC), a dock-side controller and a dock-side connector interface. The NIC is configured to transmit one or more management component transport protocol (MCTP) packets via a system management bus (SMbus). The dock-side controller is electrically coupled to the SMbus, and configured to encode the one or more MCTP packets to one or more vendor specific protocol (VSP) packets. The dock-side connector interface is electrically coupled to the dock-side controller, and configured to transmit the one or more VSP packets to an electrical device to control a basic input output system (BIOS) of the electrical device on the condition that the electrical device is connected to the docking station via the dock-side connector interface.