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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 03, 2017
Filed:
Aug. 09, 2012
Clint H. O'connor, Austin, TX (US);
Gary D. Huber, Austin, TX (US);
James W. Clardy, Austin, TX (US);
Michael Haze, Round Rock, TX (US);
Clint H. O'Connor, Austin, TX (US);
Gary D. Huber, Austin, TX (US);
James W. Clardy, Austin, TX (US);
Michael Haze, Round Rock, TX (US);
Dell Products L.P., Round Rock, TX (US);
Abstract
A system, method, and computer-readable medium are disclosed for entitling the implementation of a feature associated with a device after it is manufactured. A feature entitlement management system receives a device's unique identifier, which is then processed to determine which features associated with the device are available for implementation. Once determined, the available features are provided to the user of the device, who in turn selects a feature for implementation. A feature entitlement is then generated by performing late binding entitlement operations to associate the selected feature's corresponding entitlement data with the device's unique identifier. The resulting feature entitlement is then is processed to implement the selected feature.