公开(公告)号：US06807665B2

公开(公告)日：2004-10-19

申请号：US09766007

申请日：2001-01-18

申请人： Tracy J Evans ,  Dale R Magnuson ,  Derek J Whiteside ,  Susan L Wechsler ,  Tracy A Lang ,  Richard Hollon, Jr. ,  Daniel L Severns ,  Mammie C Lee

发明人： Tracy J Evans ,  Dale R Magnuson ,  Derek J Whiteside ,  Susan L Wechsler ,  Tracy A Lang ,  Richard Hollon, Jr. ,  Daniel L Severns ,  Mammie C Lee

IPC分类号： G06F9445

CPC分类号： G06F8/64 ,  G06F8/63

摘要： A manufacturer installs software by first partitioning storage media of the computing system into a first partition and a second partition. The manufacturer installs software bundles Into the second partition. Each software bundle is stored in form as an image. The manufacturer also installs bootable software and a user interface into the first partition. The bootable software and the user interface when run, operate to receive from a user a selection as to which of the software bundles to install in the computing system. The software bundle selected by the user is installed into the first partition while overwriting the bootable software and the user interface. After installation of the software bundle selected by the user, the bootable software, for example, can erase the installation software bundles in the second partition. This is done, for example, by overwriting the second partition with a blank file system.

摘要翻译： 制造商通过首先将计算系统的存储介质划分成第一分区和第二分区来安装软件。 制造商将软件包安装到第二个分区。 每个软件包都以图像形式存储。 制造商还将可引导软件和用户界面安装到第一个分区中。 可启动软件和用户界面运行时，操作以从用户接收关于在计算系统中安装哪个软件包的选择。 在覆盖可引导软件和用户界面的同时，将用户选择的软件包安装到第一个分区中。 在安装了用户选择的软件包之后，可引导软件可以擦除第二个分区中的安装软件包。 这是通过例如用空白文件系统覆盖第二个分区来完成的。

公开(公告)号：US06829732B2

公开(公告)日：2004-12-07

申请号：US09767416

申请日：2001-01-22

申请人： Derek J Whiteside ,  Tracy J Evans

发明人： Derek J Whiteside ,  Tracy J Evans

IPC分类号： G06F1100

CPC分类号： G06F8/63

摘要： This abstract has been included pursuant to Section 1.72(b) of the Rules for Patent and Trademark Cases, Title 37 of the Code of Federal Regulations. This abstract is intended only to enable the Patent and Trademark Office and the public to generally determine the nature of the technical disclosure. This abstract is not intended to aid in the interpretation of the scope of any claim. A computing device manufactured in a build to customer order (BTCO) environment includes an internal disk drive which is loaded with a custom software package during manufacturing. When the user desires to reload the software placed on the internal disk drive during manufacturing, such as after the drive has been replaced or after a virus has degraded the data resident on the internal disk drive, the user can recover the previously installed software package by accessing a network server available on a network. In order to assemble the previously installed software package, an identifier is conveyed from the computing device to the network server. This enables the network server to ascertain the software package, assemble the package, and transmit the package to the particular computing device.

摘要翻译： 本摘要根据“联邦条例”第37条“专利和商标案例规则”第1.72（b）条列入。 本摘要仅用于使专利商标局和公众能够一般地确定技术披露的性质。 本摘要并不旨在帮助解释任何权利要求的范围。在构建到客户订单（BTCO）环境中制造的计算设备包括在制造期间加载定制软件包的内部磁盘驱动器。 当用户期望在制造期间重新加载放置在内部磁盘驱动器上的软件时，例如在驱动器被替换之后或病毒已经降级驻留在内部磁盘驱动器上的数据之后，用户可以通过以下方式恢复先前安装的软件包 访问网络上可用的网络服务器。 为了组装以前安装的软件包，将标识符从计算设备传送到网络服务器。 这使得网络服务器可以确定软件包，组装包，并将包传送到特定的计算设备。