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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 29, 2012
Filed:
Dec. 20, 2010
Roy Meaney, Ballyneety, IE;
Philip Brisky, Manchaca, TX (US);
Eric Hoxworth, Austin, TX (US);
Joseph Tallieu, Austin, TX (US);
Roy Meaney, Ballyneety, IE;
Philip Brisky, Manchaca, TX (US);
Eric Hoxworth, Austin, TX (US);
Joseph Tallieu, Austin, TX (US);
Dell Products L.P., Round Rock, TX (US);
Abstract
A method of manufacturing an information handling system having at least one hardware component, e.g. motherboard, bearing a unique identifier (component ID) in software-readable form. The method comprises generating a digital identifier (system trackcode) which defines the hardware and software configuration of the item, storing the system trackcode in association with the component ID in a manufacturing database such that the component ID can be used as a key to retrieve the associated system trackcode. During manufacture the component ID is read from the motherboard and used to retrieve the associated system trackcode from the database.