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7334122 System for and method of network booting of an operating system to a client computer using hibernation  
A system for and method of network booting of an operating system (O/S) on one or more client devices, such as personal computers (PC's), employing a hibernation image. Remote booting of sets of...
7334119 Method, system, apparatus, and program product for temporary personalization of a computer terminal  
A method, system, and program product that enables a computer user to access their own complete computer environment and software on a separate and distinct host computer. The visiting user's data...
7334121 Flash memory system including a duplicate booting program and apparatus and method for protecting the same flash memory  
A flash memory that shares a booting function and a booting program, and an apparatus and method for protecting the same in an AT Attachment Packet Interface (ATAPI) drive. The flash memory...
RE40092 Method for quickly booting a computer system  
A method for quickly booting a personal computer system using boot configuration information on memory and the attached devices that was created and saved in a hard disk at the preceding boot...
7334075 Managing transmissions between devices  
Provided are a method, system, and program for processing a transmission from a first device to a second device. An identification transmission is received including an interface address from the...
7331046 Program and information processing method  
A program of the present invention is compatible with a plurality of system configurations. When a process jumps to a bootstrap body, CPU configuration and initialization of a timer and a data...
7330965 Multi-tiered boot list  
An aggregated server blade system includes a plurality of individual server blades and a management module which can be designated as a bootable device. A boot list maintained and executed in each...
7328285 Apparatus and method for writing information to a designated information storage medium with an allocated data storage device using a specified information recording format  
A method to write information to a designated information storage medium using an allocated data storage device using a specified information recording format, whereby a previously-determined media...
7328335 Bootable programmable logic device for internal decoding of encoded configuration data  
Method and apparatus for decoding configuration data is described. A programmable logic device having a configuration interface is coupled to boot memory coupled at the configuration interface. The...
7328334 Hardware initialization with or without processor intervention  
In an embodiment, an initialization extension device may provide an extended initialization period to enable a processor to configure a device, for example, an application specific integrated...
7328333 Apparatus, method and program product for selectively starting one of a plurality of operating systems and secondary storage according to whether or not a predetermined peripheral is connected to the system  
A computer system which includes a CPU for performing various processes by program control and storage elements which store at least one operating system and a BIOS, wherein upon starting a system,...
7325153 Obtaining configuration data for a data processing apparatus  
A method to obtain configuration data for a data processing apparatus by calculating ( 110 ) a time interval between the commencement of a mode ( 104 ) and a subsequent event ( 108 ). The...
7325125 Computer system for accessing initialization data and method therefor  
A method and computer system for accessing initialization data stored in a boot memory space. After the power supply starts up, the south bridge starts up and sends an initiating signal to the...
7321967 System and method for configuring capabilities of printed circuit boards  
Methods for configuring the capabilities of electronic systems containing printed circuit boards are provided. One such method comprises: providing an initial configuration describing a first set...
7320068 Systems and methods to migrate a user profile when joining a client to a server and/or domain  
The present invention relates to systems and methods to generate accounts on a client when joining the client to a domain while preserving user profiles that were generated prior to joining the...
7320067 Method for reprogramming a field device  
According to a method for reprogramming a field device, the current supply of the field device is increased in the programming mode. This enables electrically deletable and reprogrammable memories...
7318146 Peripheral device with hardware linked list  
A linked list is implemented in hardware. Various registers within the linked list are writeable until a control register is written, rendering the registers read-only. A computer peripheral...
7318147 Method for delaying and executing system administration operations in unattended mode  
A method allowing a user interfacing a computer with a console, to delay the execution of system administration operations and to have them executed in unattended mode on said computer. The method...
7318149 Semi-persistent relocatable ram-based virtual floppy disk method  
A method and related structure for providing operating system drivers during installation of the operating system, where those operating system drivers are provided by way of a virtual disk drive....
7318173 Embedded controller based BIOS boot ROM select  
A method for selecting one of a plurality of BIOS images included in a computer system includes indicating a selection of a BIOS image via a bus by an embedded controller. The method also includes...
7318148 Automatically configuring a computer  
Methods, systems, and computer product products are provided for automatically configuring hardware, such as a new computer within a computer network. To allow fast booting, a generic part of an...
7315905 Software controlled hard reset of mastering IPS  
A system-on-chip integrated circuit includes a peripheral initialization register has a bit corresponding to each module. Each bit indicates a normal mode or a reset mode for the corresponding...
7315939 Microcomputer having clock control circuit and initializing method thereof  
To provide a microcomputer which is improved to enable the functional selection of a functional macro and the characteristic correction without the mask option, trimming, and dedicated terminal and...
7315940 Recovery of a network element after a restart  
Described are a system and method for initializing a traffic card in a network element after a restart. The traffic card receives status information regarding a shelf processor card over a...
7312882 Image processing apparatus, management unit for image forming apparatus, and program executed by image processing apparatus or by management unit for image forming apparatus  
An image processing apparatus includes a memory storing firmware, a reception unit for receiving an image processing job, an image processing job execution controller for executing the image...
7313683 Computer system and method which boots from a bootup-memory-image stored in nonvolatile memory and copies data within an address range of predetermined width to main memory so that the system boots quickly after initialization  
A computer system boots the system from a bootup-memory-image stored in a nonvolatile memory unit forming part of a main memory device. When the first write access occurs after system operation,...
7313678 Installation procedure for wireless human interface device  
A host-side wireless interface services communications between a wireless user input device and a serviced host. The host-side wireless interface includes a wireless network interface, a host-side...
7313680 Apparatus and method for detecting the presence of a floppy drive by reading a general purpose input prior to reading a floppy drive controller  
One of the ground pins on a conventional floppy drive host connector is coupled to an input of a computer system and to a supply potential via a pull-up resistor. When a floppy drive is connected...
7313679 Extended trusted computing base  
A method, apparatus, and system are provided for extending a trusted computing base (TCB). According to one embodiment, a first level trusted computing base (TCB) is generated having hardware...
7313681 Apparatus, system, and method for adapter fastload  
An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for fastload code update on a communications adapter. The apparatus includes an image load module, a memory initialization module, and an image...
7313718 System and method for the prevention of corruption of networked storage devices during backup data recovery  
A system and method is disclosed for preventing the corruption of networked storage devices during the process of transferring backup data to a server on the network that has suffered data loss as...
7313685 Unattended BIOS recovery  
In accordance with one embodiment of the present invention, a method for recovering a BIOS in a computer is described, comprising: unattendingly loading a BIOS recovery code image into system ROM...
7310724 Parallel execution of enhanced EFI based BIOS drivers on a multi-processor or hyper-threading enabled platform  
Parallel execution of peripheral drivers on a multi-processor and/or hyper-threading enabled processor is described. According to one embodiment of the invention, two peripheral drivers are...
7310725 Common platform pre-boot and run-time firmware services  
Common operations that are to be performed by various environment-specific entities are identified. The environments may include pre-boot environment and run-time environment. A common entity is...
7310726 Booting from non-linear memory  
A method and system for booting a microprocessor controlled device. A microprocessor that is designed to read from a linear storage device executes code from a non linear storage device through an...
7308500 Model for cost optimization and QoS tuning in hosted computing environments  
Two computers of a standard size, such as 1U, are mounted in a single standard size space. This arrangement almost doubles the space utilization of a rack and thereby halves the cost of hosting a...
7308567 Information processing apparatus for performing a system boot by using programs stored in a non-voltile storage device  
After power activation, a transferer 14 detects a bootstrap program 111 having a first error check code 114 assigned thereto and being stored in a first storage device 11 , subjects the...
7308569 Method and system for specifying the boot order of mass storage devices in a computer system  
Methods for specifying a boot order for two or more mass storage devices within a computer system are provided. According to one method, a single user interface menu is provided through which the...
7308570 System and method for booting embedded systems using removable storage  
A system and method of booting an embedded system having a processor, nonvolatile memory and a remote media interface connected to the processor. Boot code is executed within the nonvolatile...
7308566 System and method for configuring lockstep mode of a processor module  
A system comprises a processor module that supports lockstep mode of operation. The system further comprises non-volatile data storage having stored thereto configuration information specifying...
7308568 Network interface with double date rate and delay locked loop  
A network device is provided which includes a device input, at least one port, a frequency doubler, a data I/O device, and a programmable delay locked loop. The frequency doubler is coupled to the...
7308585 Low power residual remaining power indicator  
Provided is an information processing apparatus that performs a desired process by a user while preserving a low consumption power state. The information processing apparatus comprises an electric...
7308718 Technique for secure remote configuration of a system  
After a processor-controlled system having communications capabilities is delivered to a user in its generic configuration, customization of the system is realized in accordance with the invention...
7305497 Performing resource analysis on one or more cards of a computer system wherein a plurality of severity levels are assigned based on a predetermined criteria  
A method of performing resource analysis on one or more cards of a computer system is described and disclosed. In an embodiment, the method includes identifying one or more affected hardware...
7305495 Dynamic loading of protocol stacks under signaling control  
Techniques for dynamically loading protocol stacks under signaling control (e.g., a message) are provided. A method of dynamically loading protocol stacks includes the sending of a message to load...
7305458 System and method for auto-configuring stackable network devices  
A system and a method for auto-configuring stackable network devices are disclosed for automatically configuring a plurality of stackable network devices. The system for auto-configuring stackable...
7305544 Interleaved boot block to support multiple processor architectures and method of use  
A flash memory has an interleaved boot block compatible with multiple processor architectures. The interleaved boot block may include one boot block compatible with a first CPU architecture and...
7305539 Adaptive booting from mass storage device  
A prior art mass storage device for bootstrap loading of a computer operating system must be configured on a set-up computer whose BIOS has the same geometrical translation scheme as the BIOS of...
7302560 Use of NAND flash for hidden memory blocks to store an operating system program  
A memory device has a plurality of memory blocks utilized to store data. One of the blocks is used as a hidden memory block to store an operating system program, instead of data. The hidden memory...
7302517 Apparatus and method for controlling execute-in-place (XIP) in serial flash memory, and flash memory chip using the same  
The invention is for controlling execute-in-place in a serial flash memory and a flash memory chip using the same, enabling a serial flash controller with predetermined amount of storage to access...