Eric Paul Hoxworth, 54114 Easy St, Monadale, TX 78634

7134049, Nov 7, 2006

Sep 17, 2003

10/664103

Russell L. Gillenwater - Round Rock TX, US
Eric Hoxworth - Cedar Park TX, US
Philip Brisky - Manchaca TX, US

Dell USA L.P. - Round Rock TX

G06F 11/00

714 25, 714 48, 717174

A method and system for performing very high speed software downloads concurrent with system testing in an automated production environment and for test-sequencing in multi-tasking environments with consolidated automation and interactive operations are described. In one embodiment, during diagnostics and software download, a multi-tasking OS is booted on a target computer system, thereby enabling diagnostics to be run at the same time the software download is performed. A visual step-sequencing engine provides the ability to sequentially execute steps, as well as to execute steps in parallel and to combine parallel and sequential steps into loops. The sequencing engine provides a visual representation of the current run status of the target system in a Main window. The sequencing engine also integrates EMR debug tools into the same application so that EMR debug technicians can run failing steps directly from the application via an EMR Control window thereof and consolidates logs into a single location within the application viewable via a Logs window thereof.

7159106, Jan 2, 2007

Apr 3, 2003

10/406462

Roy Meaney - Ballynecty, IE
Philip Brisky - Manchaca TX, US
Eric Hoxworth - Austin TX, US
Joseph Tallieu - Austin TX, US

Dell Products L.P. - Round Rock TX

G06F 9/00

713 2

A universal PXE client obtains configuration information for an information handling system, applies the configuration information to create a drive on the information handling system and loads a manufacture operating system in the drive. The manufacture operating system runs a manufacture application that configures the software of the information handling system. The universal PXE client is generated by a scripting engine of a network boot program that is downloaded to the information handling system with a NIC boot kernel activated on power-up. The state of manufacture is periodically saved to a network location that tracks manufacture progress and persists manufacture state information through system re-boots.

7403927, Jul 22, 2008

Jan 23, 2004

10/764184

Roy Meaney - Ballyneety, IE
Philip Brisky - Manchaca TX, US
Eric Hoxworth - Austin TX, US
Joseph Tallieu - Austin TX, US

Dell Products L.P. - Round Rock TX

G06F 17/00
G06Q 90/00

705500, 705 7, 700215, 700225, 700226, 700227

A method of manufacturing a build-to-order PC system unit having at least one hardware component, e. g. motherboard, bearing a unique identifier (“component ID”) in software readable form. The method comprises generating a digital identifier (“system trackcode”) which defines the hardware and software configuration of the item, storing the system trackcode in association with the component ID in a manufacturing database such that the component ID can be used as a key to retrieve the associated system trackcode. During manufacture the component ID is read from the motherboard and used to retrieve the associated system trackcode from the database.

7882044, Feb 1, 2011

Jun 30, 2008

12/164225

Roy Meaney - Ballyneety, IE
Philip Brisky - Manchaca TX, US
Eric Hoxworth - Austin TX, US
Joseph Tallieu - Austin TX, US

Dell Products L.P. - Round Rock TX

G06Q 90/00
G06F 17/00

705500, 705 7, 700215, 700225, 700226, 700227

A method of manufacturing an information handling system having at least one hardware component, e. g. motherboard, bearing a unique identifier (component ID) in software-readable form. The method includes generating a digital identifier (system trackcode) which defines the hardware and software configuration of the item and storing the system trackcode in association with the component ID in a manufacturing database such that the component ID can be used as a key to retrieve the associated system trackcode. During manufacture the component ID is read from the motherboard and used to retrieve the associated system trackcode from the database.

8190535, May 29, 2012

Dec 20, 2010

12/972677

Roy Meaney - Ballyneety, IE
Philip Brisky - Manchaca TX, US
Eric Hoxworth - Austin TX, US
Joseph Tallieu - Austin TX, US

Dell Products L.P. - Round Rock TX

G06Q 90/00
G06F 17/00

705500, 705 11, 705 711, 700215, 700225, 700226, 700227

A method of manufacturing an information handling system having at least one hardware component, e. g. motherboard, bearing a unique identifier (component ID) in software-readable form. The method comprises generating a digital identifier (system trackcode) which defines the hardware and software configuration of the item, storing the system trackcode in association with the component ID in a manufacturing database such that the component ID can be used as a key to retrieve the associated system trackcode. During manufacture the component ID is read from the motherboard and used to retrieve the associated system trackcode from the database.

2012020, Aug 16, 2012

Apr 27, 2012

13/457794

Roy Meaney - Ballyneety, IE
Philip Brisky - Manchaca TX, US
Eric Hoxworth - Austin TX, US
Joseph Tallieu - Austin TX, US

Dell Products L.P. - Round Rock TX

G06F 17/30

707690, 707E17009

A method of manufacturing an information handling system having at least one hardware component, e.g. motherboard, bearing a unique identifier (component ID) in software-readable form. The method comprises generating a digital identifier (system trackcode) which defines the hardware and software configuration of the item, storing the system trackcode in association with the component ID in a manufacturing database such that the component ID can be used as a key to retrieve the associated system trackcode. During manufacture the component ID is read from the motherboard and used to retrieve the associated system trackcode from the database.

6691253, Feb 10, 2004

May 10, 2000

09/567941

Russell L. Gillenwater - Round Rock TX
Eric Hoxworth - Cedar Park TX
Philip Brisky - Machaca TX

Dell USA L.P. - Round Rock TX

G06F 1100

714 36, 714 25, 717174, 717178

Method and system for performing very high speed software downloads concurrent with system testing in an automated production environment and for test-sequencing in multi-tasking environments with consolidated automation and interactive operations is described. In one embodiment, during diagnostics and software download, a multi-tasking OS is booted on a target computer system, thereby enabling diagnostics to be run at the same time the software download is performed. A visual step-sequencing engine provides the ability to sequentially execute steps, as well as to execute steps in parallel and to combine parallel and sequential steps into loops. The sequencing engine provides a visual representation of the current run status of the target system in a Main window. The sequencing engine also integrates EMR debug tools into the same application so that EMR debug technicians can run failing steps directly from the application via an EMR Control window thereof and consolidates logs into a single location within the application viewable via a Logs window thereof.