Patent ID: 6772252
Filing Date: 2004-08-03
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
A method for identifying a product for use with a computing device, comprising:determining one or more Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI) slots that are available to be coupled to a peripheral device by: identifying the one or more PCI slots in the computing device by identifying one or more bus numbers and one or more device numbers for the one or more PCI slots using a PCI Interrupt Request (IRQ) routing table; identifying any PCI devices coupled to a PCI bus, the PCI bus coupled to the one or more PCI slots; and determining if any of the identified PCI slots are available without requiring physical inspection of the PCI slots, an available PCI slot comprising an identified PCI slot that is not coupled to an identified PCI device; and identifying one or more products for use with the computing device based on the availability of the PCI slots.