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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 13, 2012
Filed:
Jun. 24, 2008
Applicants:
Vijayanand Muralidhar Kallianpur, San Diego, CA (US);
Sean Patrick Kennedy, San Diego, CA (US);
Jeffrey Tay Sulm, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Masafumi Kuboyama, Yokohama, JP;
Inventors:
Vijayanand Muralidhar Kallianpur, San Diego, CA (US);
Sean Patrick Kennedy, San Diego, CA (US);
Jeffrey Tay Sulm, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Masafumi Kuboyama, Yokohama, JP;
Assignees:
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Sony Electronics Inc., Park Ridge, NJ (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/445 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
In a configuration-to-order (CTO) software provisioning system, software upgrade/downgrade support, software running change support, and software file server management are provided in part using microcode typically stored on a user computer BIOS.