Apparatus and method for automatically providing information to a new computer
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1. A computer-implemented method for automatically providing information to a plurality of new computing devices, comprising:
- in an assembly line comprising a plurality of newly-manufactured computing devices, activating a computing device on the assembly line to electronically load and execute initiation instructions stored on the activated computing device, the initiation instructions automatically activating an integrated camera associated with the activated computing device on the assembly line as a barcode scanner; and
positioning a barcode to be viewable by the integrated camera, the barcode including device information related to the activated computing device on the assembly line,wherein, upon the integrated camera viewing the barcode, the device information is read by the integrated camera and stored on a system memory of the activated computing device on the assembly line.
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Abstract
A system and method is disclosed for automatically providing information to a newly-manufactured computing device. During the manufacture of a new computing device at an assembly line, a camera integrated with the computing device is automatically activated as a barcode scanner. On the camera viewing a barcode that includes device-specific configuration information, the barcode is read by the computing device to read the device-specific configuration information for storage in a non-volatile memory of the device.
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19 Claims
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1. A computer-implemented method for automatically providing information to a plurality of new computing devices, comprising:
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in an assembly line comprising a plurality of newly-manufactured computing devices, activating a computing device on the assembly line to electronically load and execute initiation instructions stored on the activated computing device, the initiation instructions automatically activating an integrated camera associated with the activated computing device on the assembly line as a barcode scanner; and positioning a barcode to be viewable by the integrated camera, the barcode including device information related to the activated computing device on the assembly line, wherein, upon the integrated camera viewing the barcode, the device information is read by the integrated camera and stored on a system memory of the activated computing device on the assembly line. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
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7. A computer-implemented method for automatically providing information to a computing device, comprising:
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automatically activating an integrated camera associated with the computing device as a barcode scanner; waiting for a barcode to be viewed by the integrated camera; upon the integrated camera viewing a barcode that includes device-specific configuration information, automatically reading the barcode to read the device-specific configuration information, and automatically storing the device-specific configuration information on a system memory of the computing device; and wherein the activating and waiting steps are automatically performed in response to a power on of the computing device and in connection with a boot up of the computing device from a boot image stored on a memory medium of the computing device. - View Dependent Claims (8, 9, 10, 11)
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12. A newly-manufactured computing device, comprising:
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a processor; an integrated camera; a first memory containing configuration instructions configured to be automatically accessed on a power-on of the computing device, wherein the configuration instructions are automatically executed by the processor on a power-on of the computer device and cause the processor to; activate the integrated camera as a scanner; read encoded information positioned in front of the integrated camera, the encoded information including device information related to the computing device; initiate a transmission of the device information to a configuration system remote from the computing device; receive configuration information about the computing device based on the transmitted device information; and store the configuration information about the computing device to the computing device. - View Dependent Claims (13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18)
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19. A computer-implemented method, comprising:
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in an assembly line comprising a plurality of computing devices, initiating a boot up of one or more of the computing devices on the assembly line to activate respective integrated cameras associated with the one or more computing devices; providing at each of the one or more computing devices on the assembly line respective encoded information that, when viewed by an activated camera of a corresponding computing device, provides the corresponding computing device with device information about the corresponding computing device; and upon a respective computing device on the assembly line receiving the device information, automatically transmitting the device information from the respective computing device on the assembly line to a configuration system, automatically downloading from the configuration system to the respective computing device configuration information based on the transmitted device information, and automatically storing the configuration information to a memory of the respective computing device on the assembly line.
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