Patent ID: 7269725
Filing Date: 2007-09-11
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A structure for uniquely binding, through connection, a subsystem device having a microprocessor and restricted information storage space for storing code, to a motherboard having a program for generating and delivering a unique code to identify said motherboard to said information storage space in said subsystem, comprising: a program to determine if said information storage space in said subsystem has information therein when said subsystem is connected to said motherboard and, if no code is contained in said information storage space in said subsystem, then writing said unique code from said motherboard to said information storage space in said subsystem; and, if there is information in said information storage space, comparing said information in said storage space with said unique code, and allowing the operation of the subsystem device if, and only if, said information in said information storage space matches said unique code generated by said motherboard.