Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.p.

Tracy J Evans

Derek J Whiteside

Tracy A Lang

Richard Hollon, Jr

Susan L Wechsler

Daniel L Severns

Mammie C Lee

Dale R Magnuson

Network-based software recovery for computing devices

A manufacturer installs software by first partitioning storage media of the computing system into a first partition and a second partition. The manufacturer installs software bundles Into the second partition. Each software bundle is stored in form as an image. The manufacturer also installs bootable software and a user interface into the first partition. The bootable software and the user interface when run, operate to receive from a user a selection as to which of the software bundles to install in the computing system. The software bundle selected by the user is installed into the first partition while overwriting the bootable software and the user interface. After installation of the software bundle selected by the user, the bootable software, for example, can erase the installation software bundles in the second partition. This is done, for example, by overwriting the second partition with a blank file system.

Efficient data transfer during computing system manufacturing and installation

Mapping information is presented to a user. Information about dynamic road conditions is integrated into static mapping data to generate dynamic mapping data. The dynamic mapping data is displayed to a user via a display. For example, the dynamic road conditions are obtained from a detector that detects dynamic road conditions. The detector is, for example, a safety warning system detector. Alternatively, the detector may be some other type of detecting device such as a radar detector. The information about dynamic road conditions can also be obtained from a wireless service that accumulates information about dynamic road conditions. Any information about dynamic road conditions obtained from a detector that detects dynamic road conditions can be forwarded to the wireless service to make the information available to other users with access to the wireless service. Positioning information can be used to display to the user a current position relative to the dynamic mapping data. For example the positioning information is obtained from a global positioning system (GPS) or from some other positioning methodology. In order to generate an optimal route for travel between two locations, information about dynamic road conditions can be integrated with the static mapping data to assure a best current route is determined.

Navigation system that takes into account dynamic road conditions

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Albany, OR, United States of America

Tracy J Evans