Patent ID: 6647532
Filing Date: 2003-11-11
Classification: G06F,G06Q,H04L

Abstract:
A method of providing a custom configured computer system having a built-in automatic customer and system identifier configured to identify the computer system to a vendor website, the method comprising:providing general HTML content with tokens for the computer system to a token substitution program; providing system and order information specific to the computer system to the token substitution program, wherein the token substitution program combines the general HTML content with the system and order information to generate system-specific content; installing the system-specific content on a hard drive of the computer system during a computer system pre-install process; and using the system-specific content stored on the hard drive so that a system service tag field and an express service code field are automatically filled in with a system service tag to automatically identify the computer system in response to a customer accessing the vendor website.