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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 24, 2006
Filed:
Oct. 28, 2003
Michael R. Minogue, Milwaukee, WI (US);
Geoffrey S. Christanday, Milwaukee, WI (US);
Esmeraldo R. V. Davantes, Pewaukee, WI (US);
Winnie C. Durbin, Dousman, WI (US);
Kun Zhang, Waukesha, WI (US);
Michael R. Minogue, Milwaukee, WI (US);
Geoffrey S. Christanday, Milwaukee, WI (US);
Esmeraldo R. V. Davantes, Pewaukee, WI (US);
Winnie C. Durbin, Dousman, WI (US);
Kun Zhang, Waukesha, WI (US);
General Electric Company, Milwaukee, WI (US);
Abstract
A system and method are provided to remotely activate options resident on a plurality of devices within a site. The invention includes generating a number of activation keys, each of which is specific to one of a plurality of in-field devices having inactive options resident in a memory of each of the plurality of in-field devices, and sending each representative activation key and a verification script to each of the in-field devices. The invention then includes receiving a report from each of the verification scripts and evaluating each report independently, whereby if the report is satisfactory for a corresponding in-field device, the respective activation key is installed in the corresponding in-field device to activate an option and if the report is not satisfactory for a corresponding in-field device, aborting activation of the option for the corresponding in-field device.