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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 20, 2004
Filed:
Dec. 02, 1999
Jonathan Frederic Weiler, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Charles Garizas, San Jose, CA (US);
Keyush Dhirajlal Shah, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Ulysses ESD, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
A method secures software in a computer system that has one or more fixed disk drives. Each fixed disk drive is configured with a predetermined system serial number, such that each fixed disk drive has the same system serial number. Software is received with an associated target serial number. The associated target serial number is compared to the system serial number on every fixed disk drive. The file is installed when the system serial number on every fixed disk drive is the same as the associated target serial number. A computer program product embodies the method described above.