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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.

Date of Patent:
Sep. 04, 2007

Filed:

Nov. 06, 2001
Applicant:

Andrew W. Wilks, Austin, TX (US);

Inventor:

Andrew W. Wilks, Austin, TX (US);

Assignee:

Dell Products L.P., Round Rock, TX (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/445 (2006.01); G06F 9/24 (2006.01); G06F 15/177 (2006.01); G06F 15/173 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A system and method for configuring a unique computer name record for an information handling system included in a network of a plurality of information handling systems. The method and system for dynamically generating a unique computer name for each information handling system that is connected to a network of information handling systems includes reading a service tag identifier that uniquely identifies the information handling system, incorporating at least a portion of the service tag identifier to define the unique computer name record; and using a substantially similar boot program to boot the information handling system and the plurality of information handling systems.


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