Electrical computers and digital processing systems: support – Reconfiguration
Reexamination Certificate
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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Currid Andrew
Overby Mark A.
Lee Thomas
NVIDIA Corporation
Patterson & Sheridan LLP
Stoynov Stefan
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