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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:
Feb. 05, 2013
Filed:
Nov. 20, 2009
Shahrokh Shahidzadeh, Portland, OR (US);
James Steven Fintel, Spring, TX (US);
Jonathan Douglas, Portland, OR (US);
William J. Kirby, Portland, OR (US);
Tim Gates, Hillsboro, OR (US);
Tim Abels, Hillsboro, OR (US);
Shahrokh Shahidzadeh, Portland, OR (US);
James Steven Fintel, Spring, TX (US);
Jonathan Douglas, Portland, OR (US);
William J. Kirby, Portland, OR (US);
Tim Gates, Hillsboro, OR (US);
Tim Abels, Hillsboro, OR (US);
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
In one embodiment, the present invention includes a method for determining if a system is compatible with an up-binning or down-binning to a hardware resource of the system through RFID tag communication, receiving instructions from a remote server to upgrade the hardware resource if the system is compatible, and programming the hardware resource based on the instructions. In one such embodiment, the hardware resource may be programmed by use of programmable fuses to enable circuitry of the hardware resource. Other embodiments are described and claimed.