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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 07, 1999
Filed:
Jun. 17, 1997
Applicant:
Inventor:
Rahul Patel, Houston, TX (US);
Assignee:
Compaq Computer Corporation, Houston, TX (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
710-1 ; 710-3 ; 710-4 ; 710-5 ;
Abstract
The present invention enhances the robustness of the Plug-and-Play BIOS, and reduces the amount of ROM work required to support each product, by rearchitecting the static support, conflict resolution, and initialization of system board devices to combine such functionality into fewer software components having greater product independence.