Steven D Romohr

US Patent:

7159018, Jan 2, 2007

Filed:

Aug 2, 2001

Appl. No.:

09/921071

Inventors:

Hatim Y. Amro - Austin TX, US
William P. Hyden - Round Rock TX, US
Robert G. Nadon - Georgetown TX, US
Steven D. Romohr - Austin TX, US

Assignee:

Dell Products L.P. - Round Rock TX

International Classification:

G06F 15/177
G06F 9/445

US Classification:

709221, 717168, 717169, 717170, 717171, 717172, 717173, 717174, 717175, 717176, 717177, 717178, 709220, 709222

Abstract:

A system including a server, a computer system, and a device coupled to a port of the computer system is provided. The server includes a script associated with an identifier. The device includes the identifier. The computer system is configured to read the identifier from the device, provide the identifier to the server, and cause a script associated with the identifier to be executed to cause one or more software components to be installed onto the computer system.

US Patent:

20040143626, Jul 22, 2004

Filed:

Jan 21, 2003

Appl. No.:

10/348643

Inventors:

Bryan Kemp - Round Rock TX, US
Gaston Barajas - Austin TX, US
Steven Romohr - Austin TX, US

Assignee:

DELL PRODUCTS L.P.

International Classification:

G06F015/16

US Classification:

709/203000

Abstract:

A method of operating a cache memory within an information handling system comprises the steps of defining a list of files to be requested from a storage system; searching the locations of each files within the storage system and determining the modification date/time of each file; searching the locations of each file within a cache memory and determining the modification date/time of each file; and determining whether the cache needs to be updated.

US Patent:

55967230, Jan 21, 1997

Filed:

Jun 23, 1994

Appl. No.:

8/264830

Inventors:

Steven D. Romohr - Austin TX

Assignee:

Dell USA, LP - Austin TX

International Classification:

G06F 1300

US Classification:

39520016

Abstract:

A method and apparatus for automatically detecting the prevalence of local area network operating system services and network frame type protocols that are being used on a network to which a computer system is being attached. When a computer system is newly attached to a network, the present invention transmits specific operating system broadcast inquiries using various frame type protocols across the network. The present invention then counts the network operating system specific responses for each of these supported frame types. These response counts indicate the prevalence of each network operating system and the prevalence of the network frame type protocol supported by each network operating system. The computer system then configures itself according to the most prevalent network operating system and frame type being used in the network, and thus a system administrator is not required to manually configure each computer being added to a network.