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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 11, 2015
Filed:
Dec. 16, 2005
Applicants:
Andrew Brown, Houston, TX (US);
E. David Neufeld, Magnolia, TX (US);
Dwight L. Barron, Houston, TX (US);
Andrew L. Fisher, Houston, TX (US);
Inventors:
Andrew Brown, Houston, TX (US);
E. David Neufeld, Magnolia, TX (US);
Dwight L. Barron, Houston, TX (US);
Andrew L. Fisher, Houston, TX (US);
Assignee:
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/00 (2006.01); G06F 5/00 (2006.01); G06F 21/71 (2013.01); G01R 31/317 (2006.01); G01R 31/3185 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/71 (2013.01); G01R 31/3172 (2013.01); G01R 31/318555 (2013.01); G01R 31/318572 (2013.01);
Abstract
A hardware enablement apparatus includes a processor, and a communications interface configured for writing license data to one or more data registers and for using the license data to selectively enable, under control of the processor, hardware features associated with the data registers, at least one of the data registers being implemented in non-volatile memory.