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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.

Date of Patent:
Mar. 04, 2014

Filed:

Sep. 17, 2010
Applicants:

Scott E. Joyce, Foxboro, MA (US);

Bruce R. Rabe, Dedham, MA (US);

Munish T. Desai, Shrewsbury, MA (US);

Scott B. Kay, Franklin, MA (US);

Sreenath Rajagopal, Natick, MA (US);

Inventors:

Scott E. Joyce, Foxboro, MA (US);

Bruce R. Rabe, Dedham, MA (US);

Munish T. Desai, Shrewsbury, MA (US);

Scott B. Kay, Franklin, MA (US);

Sreenath Rajagopal, Natick, MA (US);

Assignee:

EMC Corporation, Hopkinton, MA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/44 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A method, to be performed in a computer, is provided. The method includes, for each of a plurality of devices, (a) detecting a hardware revision of that device, (b) selecting a version of a plugin associated with that hardware revision, and (c) loading the selected version of the plugin. At least one device of the plurality of devices has a different hardware revision than at least one other device of the plurality of devices. The version of the plugin associated with the one device is different than the version of the plugin associated with the other device. Corresponding computer program products and devices are also provided.


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