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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 02, 2013
Filed:
Oct. 29, 2009
Thomas M. Laffey, Roseville, CA (US);
Dick T. Fong, Sacramento, CA (US);
Dennis Carr, Roseville, CA (US);
Kevin Boyum, Roseville, CA (US);
Thomas M. Laffey, Roseville, CA (US);
Dick T. Fong, Sacramento, CA (US);
Dennis Carr, Roseville, CA (US);
Kevin Boyum, Roseville, CA (US);
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
An apparatus comprises a shipping box containing an access area and a configurable electronic device. The configurable electronic device comprises an electrical connector accessible via the access area on the shipping box. The configurable electronic device also comprises a management module that receives electrical power via the electrical connector when a single external cable is mated to the electrical connector through the access area. The management module receives configuration information via the single external cable while the configurable electronic device is still in the shipping box and without having host logic in the configurable electronic device being powered up. In other embodiments, multiple configurable electronic devices can be reconfigured simultaneously and wirelessly by an external programming unit.