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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:
Jul. 15, 2014
Filed:
Jul. 30, 2012
Applicants:
David J. Koenen, Cypress, TX (US);
Michael Lee Witkowski, Tomball, TX (US);
Inventors:
David J. Koenen, Cypress, TX (US);
Michael Lee Witkowski, Tomball, TX (US);
Assignee:
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/177 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A technique includes network booting a physical machine coupled to a network by a link aggregation group. The technique includes selectively disabling ports of the physical machine associated with the link aggregation group in connection with the network booting until a driver of an operating system to group the ports together is installed on the physical machine.