System and method to accelerate identification of hardware...

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2006-07-25

2009-10-27

Lee, Thomas (Department: 2116)

Electrical computers and digital processing systems: support

Reconfiguration

C713S001000, C713S002000, C710S104000, C711S216000

Reexamination Certificate

active

07610483

ABSTRACT:
One embodiment of the present invention sets forth a technique for concisely identifying the hardware configuration of a computer system through a single signature value. This signature value is computed by passing specific hardware configuration information through a hashing function. The hardware configuration information may include, among other things, selected elements of the SMBIOS system description as well as PCI topology and PCI bus type information.

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Final Office Action. U.S. Appl. No. 11/459,850. Dated Jun. 26, 2009.
Office Action. U.S. Appl. No. 11/459,892. Dated Jul. 7, 2009.

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