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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 11, 2009
Filed:
May. 23, 2006
Joseph E. Bolan, Cary, NC (US);
Robert K. Christner, Raleigh, NC (US);
Simon C. Chu, Chapel Hill, NC (US);
Peter T. Donovan, Cary, NC (US);
Eric R. Kern, Chapel Hill, NC (US);
Joseph E. Bolan, Cary, NC (US);
Robert K. Christner, Raleigh, NC (US);
Simon C. Chu, Chapel Hill, NC (US);
Peter T. Donovan, Cary, NC (US);
Eric R. Kern, Chapel Hill, NC (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Identifying an operating system running on a computer system. In one aspect of the invention, an enumeration pattern is collected, the enumeration pattern describing an enumeration of a device that has been performed between the device and the operating system running on a host computer system. The type of the operating system running on the host computer system is identified based on the collected enumeration pattern.