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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 05, 2009
Filed:
May. 07, 2003
Butler W. Lampson, Cambridge, MA (US);
John D. Detreville, Seattle, WA (US);
Paul England, Bellevue, WA (US);
Butler W. Lampson, Cambridge, MA (US);
John D. DeTreville, Seattle, WA (US);
Paul England, Bellevue, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
In accordance with one aspect of boot blocks for software, in a computer system that has a central processing unit and a software identity register, an atomic operation is executed to set an identity of a piece of software into the software identity register. If the atomic operation completes correctly, then the software identity register contains the identity of the piece of software; otherwise, the software identity register contains a value other than the identity of the piece of software.