20090260084 | METHOD FOR VERIFYING CONFORMITY OF THE LOGICAL CONTENT OF A COMPUTER APPLIANCE WITH A REFERENCE CONTENT - A computer appliance and method are provided. The computer appliance includes a processor, a memory in which the processor can read and write, and an input/output device for interfacing the appliance processor with the outside world. In order to verify conformity of the logical content of the appliance with the reference content, the method includes sending to the appliance a request for loading into the memory and executing a verification program. The verification program is capable or writing data into the memory of the appliance and of reading data in the memory to send them to the input/output device. Then, the method includes sending to the appliance a request for executing the program to saturate the memory available not taken up by the program. Finally, it includes exchanging messages with the appliance by executing the program. Based on the exchanged messages, the conformity of the logical content of the appliance is verified. | 10-15-2009 |