ASSEMBLY, AND ASSOCIATED METHOD, FOR PROVISIONING COMPUTER DEVICE WITH COMPUTER DATA

• US 20070288612A1
• Filed: 06/12/2006
• Published: 12/13/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 06/12/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (HP Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Electronic Data Systems Corporation (Perspecta, Inc.)
• Inventors: Hall, Eric
• Application Number:
  US11/423,558
• Publication Number:
  US 20070288612A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/223
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/0428 wherein the data content is protected, e.g. by encrypting or encapsulating the payload
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/40 Support for services or applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/12 specially adapted for proprietary or special-purpose networking environments, e.g. medical networks, sensor networks, networks in vehicles or remote metering networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/324 in the data link layer [OSI layer 2], e.g. HDLC
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/037 of the control plane, e.g. signalling traffic
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/35 Protecting application or service provisioning, e.g. securing SIM application provisioning
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 84/10 Small scale networks; Flat hierarchical networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 84/18 Self-organising networks, e.g. ad-hoc networks or sensor networks

Abstract

An assembly, and an associated method, for provisioning a computer server, or other computer device, with operating system software and other computer data. A mobile start cart is positioned at a build area at which provisioning data is broadcast. The broadcast data is detected by a communication element of the mobile start cart. A communication element of the start cart is also placed into wireless, communication connectivity with the computer server. Provisioning data detected at the mobile start cart is forwarded on to the computer server to provision the computer server.

Claims

1. An assembly for facilitating provisioning of a computer device with provisioning data at a provisioning location, said assembly comprising:

a wireless network connector configured selectably to receive network-sourced computer data, the network-sourced computer data comprising the provisioning data, when positioned at the provisioning location;

a wireless computer device connector connected to said wireless network connector and configured selectably to communicate with the computer device, the network-sourced computer data forming the provisioning data provided to the computer device by way of said wireless computer device connector; and

a mobile support platform configured to support said wireless network connector and the wireless computer device connector, said mobile support platform positionable at the provisioning location to position said wireless network connector to permit reception of the network-sourced computer data and to position said wireless computer device connector to permit communication of the network-sourced computer data to the computer device.

2. The assembly of claim 1 wherein said wireless network connector comprises a wireless local area network, WLAN, point-to-point bridge.

3. The assembly of claim 1 wherein said wireless network connector comprises a wireless local area network, WLAN, point-to-multipoint bridge.

4. The assembly of claim 1 wherein said wireless network connector comprises a mobile wireless local area network repeater.

5. The assembly of claim 1 wherein said wireless network connector comprises a mobile wireless local area network access point.

6. The assembly of claim 1 wherein the network-sourced computer data that said wireless network connector is configured to receive comprises IEEE 802.11(b)-formatted data.

7. The assembly of claim 1 wherein the network-sourced computer data that said wireless network connector is configured to receive comprises IEEE 802.11(a)-formatted data.

8. The assembly of claim 1 wherein the network-sourced computer data that said wireless connector is configured to receive comprises IEEE 802.11(g)-formatted data.

9. The assembly of claim 1 wherein said wireless computer device connector comprises a Bluetooth™

transceiver.

10. The assembly of claim 1 wherein said wireless computer device connector comprises an ultrawideband, UWB, transceiver.

11. The assembly of claim 1 wherein said wireless computer device connector comprises an IEEE 802.15-compatible transceiver.

12. The assembly of claim 1 wherein said mobile support platform comprises a wheeled platform positionable by wheeled movement at the provisioning location.

13. An assembly for facilitating computer-device provisioning of provisioning data at a provisioning location, said assembly comprising:

a wide area network transceiver having a communication range that includes the provisioning location, said wide area network transceiver configured to broadcast network-sourced computer data that forms the provisioning data;

wide area network infrastructure connected to said wide area network transceiver, the network-sourced computer data provided to said wide area network transceiver for broadcast therefrom by said wide area network infrastructure; and

a computer data source connected in communication connectivity with said wide area network transceiver, said computer data source configured to source the network-sourced computer data.

14. The assembly of claim 13 wherein the wide area network infrastructure comprises a cellular communication system network infrastructure.

15. A method for facilitating provisioning of a computer device with provisioning data at a provisioning location, said method comprising the operations of:

positioning a mobile-positionable wireless network connector at the provisioning location;

detecting, at the mobile-positionable wireless network connector, the network-sourced computer data broadcast in the provisioning location;

positioning a mobile-positionable communication device connector together with the wireless network connector and in wireless communication connectivity with the communication device; and

provisioning the computer device with the network-sourced data by way of the communication device connector, the network-sourced data forming the provisioning data.

16. The method of claim 15 wherein said operations of positioning the mobile-positionable wireless network connector and of positioning the mobile-positionable communication device connector comprise wheeling a support cart upon which the wireless network and communication device connectors, respectively, are supported.

17. The method of claim 15 further comprising the operation of broadcasting the network-sourced computer data by a wide area network device in the provisioning location.

18. The method of claim 15 wherein the mobile-positionable communication device connector positioned during said operation of positioning the mobile-positionable communication device connector comprises a Bluetooth™

transceiver.

19. The method of claim 15 wherein the mobile-positionable communication device connector positioned during said operation of positioning the mobile-positionable communication device connector comprises a wireless local area network, WLAN, point-to-point bridge.

20. The method of claim 15 wherein the mobile-positionable communication device connector positioned during said operation of positioning the mobile-positionable communication device connector comprises a wireless local area network, WLAN, point-to-multipoint bridge.