[geeks] FRU SEEPROM Question

[Charles Shannon Hendrix]

Thu, 18 Jan 2007 @ 14:16 -0600, Lionel Peterson said:

> >From: Michael Thompson <m_thompson at ids.net>
> >Date: 2007/01/18 Thu PM 12:22:53 CST
> >To: geeks at sunhelp.org
> >Subject: [geeks] FRU SEEPROM Question
> 
> >I am looking for patent prior art where more than one copy of FRU 
> >(Field Replaceable Unit) data was stored in a SEEPROM. I can find 
> >many cases where serial number, manufacturing date, etc is stored in 
> >a SEEPROM, but only one copy. Any clues?
> 
> I'm sorry, but reading between the lines, is redundancy "patentable"?

Well, clicking on a link to download a file is patented...

But more seriously, I am pretty sure Gigabyte has a patent on dual BIOS.

I don't know what a SEEPROM is, but since they have a patent on
redundant PROM data, it might be related.  

Not sure how to find it though.  Maybe do a patent search for Gigabyte
and see what theirs says.

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