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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 21, 2002
Filed:
May. 07, 1999
D. Scott Guthridge, Portland, OR (US);
Wayne Alan Downer, Portland, OR (US);
Kyle Gerhard Grieser, Portland, OR (US);
Gerrit Huizenga, III, Portland, OR (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method for configuring devices within a computer system provides device configuration information for types of devices that may be included within the computer system. The device configuration information for a device type includes interface types by which devices of that device type connect to other devices. The method includes determining the interface types of a current object associated with a device. Device types that can exist on a determined interface type of the current object are probed for. A child object is created for a device found from the probing and a link between the current object and the child object is also created. A child object is then made the current object, and the above actions are repeated at least until the devices to be configured within the system have associated objects linked together.