Patent ID: 6687496
Filing Date: 2004-02-03
Classification: G06F,H04W

Abstract:
A method, comprising:determining individual characteristics of a plurality of computing devices; transmitting a plurality of peripheral radio frequency (RF) signals based on the individual characteristics of each of the plurality of computing devices, wherein each peripheral RF signal contains proprietary original equipment manufacturer (â€œOEMâ€ ) code particular to each of the plurality of computing devices; receiving the plurality of peripheral RF signals by the plurality of computing devices, wherein each computing device comprising: a peripheral antenna to receive a corresponding one of the plurality of peripheral RF signals; a peripheral RF receiver coupled to the peripheral antenna; a nonvolatile memory coupled to the peripheral RF receiver in which a first programming is stored, the first programming to enable each computing device to turn on and to receive the proprietary OEM code particular to each computing device; and a central processing unit (â€œCPUâ€ ) to execute the first programming and to execute the received proprietary OEM code; and writing the proprietary OEM code particular to each computing device received via the peripheral antenna of each computing device into the nonvolatile memory of each computing device.