System and method for providing unattended personality acquisition, self-recovery and remote maintenance to internet-based end-user devices
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1. A method of initializing a remote system via a network operating center (NOC), comprising the steps of:
- installing said remote system in a particular location;
establishing a communication channel between said remote system and said NOC having a table of personality information for a plurality of remote systems;
inputting an identifiable tag data into said remote system; and
, downloading the corresponding personality information matching said inputted tag data from said NOC.
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Abstract
An apparatus in communication with a central monitoring station with a stored set of preprogrammed instructions designed for the unattended use by the general public is initially installed in the field, by establishing a basic connectivity to the monitoring station to report its tag information in order to retrieve the corresponding personality information, then in the event of a failure, the image containing an operating system on a primary partition is recreated from a secondary partition as well as the redundant copy of the personality information.
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1. A method of initializing a remote system via a network operating center (NOC), comprising the steps of:
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installing said remote system in a particular location;
establishing a communication channel between said remote system and said NOC having a table of personality information for a plurality of remote systems;
inputting an identifiable tag data into said remote system; and
,downloading the corresponding personality information matching said inputted tag data from said NOC. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4)
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5. A method for providing the unattended remote recovery of a remote system having a first partition and a second partition coupled to a network operating center (NOC), the method comprising the steps of:
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imaging an operating system (OS) in said second partition;
storing a compressed image of said second partition in a given location in said first partition;
installing said remote system in a particular location;
in response to a determination that said remote system requires said recovery process at a predetermined time period, establishing a communication channel between said remote system to exchange data relating to operating said remote system;
rebooting said installed remote system via said first partition;
transferring said compressed image stored in said first partition onto said second partition; and
,rebooting said installed remote system via said second partition. - View Dependent Claims (6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 13, 14, 15)
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12. A system for providing unattended remote recovery of a remote system in communication with a network operating center (NOC), comprising:
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a first means for storing a personality information transmitted from said NOC;
a second means for storing an operating information;
an image means disposed in said first means for storing a compressed file of said operating information of said second means;
means, responsive to the determination that said remote system is operating improperly, for selectively rebooting said remote system from one of said first means and said second means; and
,means for transferring the compressed file stored in said image means to said second storage means.
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