US 6,983,316 B1
Method of and content delivery server for delivering content to a personal computer having a disk drive which includes a network address for the content delivery server and a server-contacting program
Matthew W. Milne, Chino, Calif. (US); Michael K. Eneboe, San Jose, Calif. (US); Scott T. Hughes, Laguna Beach, Calif. (US); and Vu V. Luu, Milpitas, Calif. (US)
Assigned to Western Digital Ventures, Inc., Lake Forest, Calif. (US)
Filed on Jul. 18, 2000, as Appl. No. 9/618,766.
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. G06F 15/177 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 709—221 17 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of delivering content from a content delivery server to a personal computer system that includes a computing subsystem and a disk drive, the method comprising:
selecting a network address for the content delivery server;
selecting a server-contacting program;
storing the network address and the server-contacting program in the disk drive;
installing disk drive executable code in a disk controller circuit in the disk drive to initiate execution of the server-contacting program after the disk drive is connected to the computing subsystem in the personal computer system, wherein execution of the server-contacting program includes using the network address for connecting the personal computer system to the content delivery server; and
configuring the content delivery server, the configuring comprising:
receiving user information from the personal computer system while the personal computer system is connected to the content delivery server; and
delivering content to the personal computer system in response to the user information.