Client device configuration with configuration services providers
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsWilliam K. Bodin, Michael J. Burkhart
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Abstract
Configuring a client device, including receiving, from a manufacturer, a configuration bundle for a client device, receiving, from a vendor, vendor provided configuration parameters for the client device, receiving, from a user, user provided configuration parameters for the client device, and associating the vendor provided configuration parameters and the user provided configuration parameters with the configuration bundle for the client device; thereby producing an associated configuration bundle for the client device.
Claims24
A method for configuring a client device, the method comprising the steps of:
- receiving, by a Configuration Services Provider (‘CSP’) from a manufacturer, a configuration bundle for a client device;
- receiving, by the CSP from a vendor, vendor provided configuration parameters for the client device;
- receiving, by the CSP from a user, user provided configuration parameters for the client device;
- and
- associating, by the CSP, the vendor provided configuration parameters and the user provided configuration parameters with the configuration bundle for the client device, thereby producing an associated configuration bundle for the client device;
- wherein associating the vendor provided configuration parameters and the user provided configuration parameters with the configuration bundle for the client device comprises retrieving the configuration bundle from a database in dependence upon a client device identifier and retrieving the user configuration parameters from a database in dependence upon a user identifier.
A system for configuring a client device, the system comprising:
- means for receiving, by a Configuration Services Provider ('CSP') from a manufacturer, a configuration bundle for a client device;
- means for receiving, by the CSP from a vendor, vendor provided configuration parameters for the client device;
- means for receiving, by the CSP from a user, user provided configuration parameters for the client device;
- and
- means for associating, by the CSP, the vendor provided configuration parameters and the user provided configuration parameters with the configuration bundle for the client device, thereby producing an associated configuration bundle for the client device wherein the means for associating the vendor provided configuration parameters and the user provided configuration parameters with the configuration bundle for the client device comprises means for retrieving the configuration bundle from a database in dependence upon a client device identifier and means for retrieving the user configuration parameters from a database in dependence upon a user identifier.
A computer program product for configuring a client device, the computer program product comprising:
- a non-transitory recording medium;
- instructions, recorded on the recording medium, for receiving, by a Configuration Services Provider ('CSP') from a manufacturer, a configuration bundle for a client device;
- instructions, recorded on the recording medium, for receiving, by the CSP from a vendor, vendor provided configuration parameters for the client device;
- instructions, recorded on the recording medium, for receiving, by the CSP from a user, user provided configuration parameters for the client device;
- and
- instructions, recorded on the recording medium, for associating, by the CSP, the vendor provided configuration parameters and the user provided configuration parameters with the configuration bundle for the client device, thereby producing an associated configuration bundle for the client device;
- wherein the instructions for associating the vendor provided configuration parameters and the user provided configuration parameters with the configuration bundle for the client device comprises instructions for retrieving the configuration bundle from a database in dependence upon a client device identifier and retrieving the user configuration parameters from a database in dependence upon a user identifier.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.