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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:
Jun. 22, 2004
Filed:
Oct. 26, 2000
Applicant:
Inventors:
Jeffrey S. Layton, Round Rock, TX (US);
Shawn J. Dube, Austin, TX (US);
Assignee:
Dell Products L.P., Round Rock, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/06 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/06 ;
Abstract
A computer system for estimating resource usage of components in a particular system configuration is disclosed. The computer system includes a processor and a computer readable medium. System requirements, each of which describes an amount of an associated resource required by a particular system configuration, are stored within the computer readable medium. The processor receives component and configuration selections, retrieves an appropriate system requirement from the computer readable medium, and outputs that system requirement.