International Business Machines Corporation

Toshiba Global Commerce Solutions Holdings Corporation

Robert Eugene Russell, Jr

David John Steiner

John David Landers, Jr

Phuc Ky Do

Sergio Amoni

Kumar Basalingappa Kori

David Arthur Williams

A method, computer program product and system for storing or updating authentications, e.g., passwords, in a boot code image, i.e., binary executable boot code, stored within a Read Only Memory (ROM), e.g., flash ROM, of a terminal from a remote central site. An authentication may be stored in the boot code image in a terminal from a central site by creating a file comprising a boot code image storing the authentication at the central site and then storing the created file in ROM in the terminal. The file may be downloaded from a server at the central site to the terminal. An authentication in the boot code image in a terminal may be updated remotely from a central site by updating the file associated with the boot code image, i.e., updating the authentication, at the central site and then downloading the updated file to the terminal.

Authentications integrated into a boot code image

Methods, systems and computer program products are provided for segmenting a plurality of Universal Serial Bus (USB) devices connected to a common root hub into clusters. The devices may be segmented based on the connection topology. Such a segmentation may be performed without user intervention to define the clusters by designating a particular port(s) of USB hubs as expansion ports such that a USB hub connected to an expansion port starts a new cluster and may act as a cluster root hub. Devices connected to a cluster root hub may be considered in the same cluster if there is no intervening cluster root hub.

Methods, systems and computer program products for logically segmenting devices on a universal serial bus

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Cary, NC, United States of America

Robert Eugene Russell, Jr