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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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....
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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