Computer systems

• US 20020188853A1
• Filed: 05/10/2002
• Published: 12/12/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 05/10/2001
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (HP Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (HP Inc.)
• Inventors: Owhadi, Eric
• Application Number:
  US10/144,443
• Publication Number:
  US 20020188853A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 713/182
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/52 during program execution, e.g. stack integrity ; Preventing unwanted data erasure; Buffer overflow
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2221/2115 Third party
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/08 Protocols for interworking; Protocol conversion

Abstract

The present invention relates to computer systems and in particular to a file distribution method and method of manufacture by which a file, representing, for example, software, that has not been approved from a quality assurance perspective is loaded, before shipment of a computer, onto a storage medium of that computer and after shipment, the file or software is enabled to allow it to be utilized appropriately, subject to a corresponding usable version of the file having passed appropriate wuality assurance tests. The embodiments of the invention confer at least two advantages. Firstly, the conventional software quality assurance approval process is avoided prior to shipment, which leads to the avoidance of potential delays in the manufacture of the computer system, and, secondly, the conventional downloads associated with obtaining on-line support and maintenance are avoided.

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