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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 15, 2009
Filed:
Feb. 02, 2007
James Blaine Engle, Green Valley, AZ (US);
Jason James Graves, Tucson, AZ (US);
Shah Mohammad Rezaul Islam, Tucson, AZ (US);
James Blaine Engle, Green Valley, AZ (US);
Jason James Graves, Tucson, AZ (US);
Shah Mohammad Rezaul Islam, Tucson, AZ (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A vital product data system memory stores warranty information in vital product data relating to replaceable unit(s) of a data handling system. The data comprises a date of first use, and a device state field comprising an identifier representing one of the states: 'new', 'recertified', and, “in-use”. Management control, in response to newly sensing a replaceable unit, detects its device state field, and if the detected field is set to the “new” state, resets it to the “in-use” state, sets the date of first use to a current date, and stores the state field and date of first use for the replaceable unit in the memory; and if the detected field is set to the “recertified” state, resets the field to the “in-use” state, and sets the replaceable unit date of first use to the date of first use stored in the memory for the previous replaceable unit at the same location.
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