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7539984 Method and apparatus for simulating a video disc player  
A method for simulating video disc players includes loading firmware into memory for controlling a video disc player with an operating system. The method also includes and performing the following...
7539854 System and method to seamlessly enable enhanced management and scripting of a computer system and its add-in devices  
An embodiment of the present invention is a system and method relating to seamlessly enable enhanced management and scripting of a computer system and its add-in devices. In at least one...
7539863 Remote services for portable computing environment  
The described systems, methods and data structures are directed to a portable computing environment. A communication link is established between a portable device and a host device. The portable...
7539967 Self-configuring components on a device  
Methods and apparatus are provided for allowing components such as buffers, multiplexers, ingress cores, etc. on a device such as a programmable chip to configure themselves based on parameter...
7539795 Methods and apparatus for implementing dynamic shortcuts both for rapidly accessing web content and application program windows and for establishing context-based user environments  
The invention disclosed herein concerns methods and apparatus for implementing dynamic shortcuts for use in navigating web content and application program windows. In particular, the methods and...
7536536 Method, system, and computer readable medium for updating and utilizing the contents of a non-essential region of a memory device  
A method and system are provided for updating an utilizing the contents of a non-essential region in a memory device in a computer system. A computer program is utilized to build an image file. The...
7536537 Simultaneous dual booting of platforms  
A method for booting a software operating environment and software applications within a wireless communications system ( 100 ) is provided. The method ( 500 ) includes executing one or more boot...
7536538 Cluster tools for processing substrates using at least a key file  
A method for configuring a plasma cluster tool is disclosed. The method includes generating a key file from option specifications, the key file encapsulating configuration restrictions specifically...
7536541 Parallelizing multiple boot images with virtual machines  
A system and method are presented for converting a multi-boot computer to a virtual machine. Existing boot images on a multi-boot computer are identified and converted into virtual machine...
7536229 Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and computer program  
An information processing apparatus includes a first information processor, a plurality of second information processor, and a plurality of temperature detecting units detecting temperature in the...
7533215 Distributed and packed metadata structure for disk cache  
An apparatus and method to reduce the initialization time of a system is disclosed. In one embodiment, upon a cache line update, metadata associated with the cache line is stored in a distributed...
7533159 Selective flooding in a multicast network  
A system and method for selective flooding in a multicast network are disclosed. Some embodiments provide for a promiscuous mode device on a network to signal to one or more other devices on the...
7533238 Method for limiting the size of a local storage of a processor  
A method for limiting the size of a local storage of a processor is provided. A facility is provided in association with a processor for setting a local storage size limit. This facility is a...
7532720 Utilizing SIMD instructions within montgomery multiplication  
An architecture and methodology for implementing Montgomery multiplication on a computer system that supports SIMD instructions is described.
7531983 Method of controlling startup current of motor and disk drive using the method  
Provided is a method and apparatus for controlling a motor of a disk drive. The method is used to stably control the startup current of a motor by considering a voltage drop and the disk drive uses...
7533254 Volatile memory persistence during warm reboot in an optical transceiver  
An operational optical transceiver configured to preserve a portion of volatile memory during a warm reboot process. The optical transceiver includes a persistent memory, a processor, and a system...
7533216 Device and method for simulating a hard disk  
A device and a method for simulating a hard disk are disclosed. The device has a core logic chip, a main memory module and a setting module. The setting module is used to set the main memory module...
7529920 Apparatus and method capable of executing plug and play installation processing operation upon acquiring one piece of device identification information including both printer and facsimile identification information  
The present invention relates to an information processing apparatus capable of executing plug and play processing for starting up one installation processing operation upon acquiring one device...
7529953 Communication bus power state management  
Methods and apparatus to manage communication bus power states are described. In one embodiment, an apparatus comprises a bus including a master node and at least a first slave node, logic to...
7529939 Method of and apparatus for transferring data  
A method of securely transferring data from a transmitter to a receiver which includes the steps of at the transmitter encrypting data which at least in part is based on timer information at the...
7529922 Method for recording use time of computer system  
A method for recording the use time of a computer system is disclosed. The method includes storing the last power-on time of the computer system before shipping (the base use time) and a time...
7529818 System and method for performing validation of a configuration  
In embodiments, the present invention provides mechanisms and methods for making a set of configuration changes to a set of servers comprised of an administration server and one or more managed...
7529919 Boot blocks for software  
In accordance with one aspect of boot blocks for software, in a computer system that has a central processing unit and a software identity register, an atomic operation is executed to set an...
7529921 Fast initialization of medical device system having multiple operating systems  
A system including a communication circuit and a microprocessor operable to execute instruction code associated with at least a first operating system and a second operating system. The system also...
7529923 Operating system mode transfer  
Provided are a method, system and program for effecting an operating system mode change from one mode to another. In one embodiment, the operating system in one mode is placed in a sleep state in...
7526639 Method to enhance boot time using redundant service processors  
A computer implemented method and system for enhancing boot time of a computer system. Initial program load firmware is initialized on a plurality of service processors. The plurality of service...
7526578 Option ROM characterization  
Methods, apparatus, and computer program products are disclosed for option ROM characterization by establishing an isolating execution environment for an expansion adapter of a computer, the...
7526421 System and method for modeling LPAR behaviors in a simulation tool  
A simulation tool for modeling LPAR behavior in a mainframe computer. The simulation tool comprises: a first algorithm for modeling the behavior of an LPAR (logical partition) operating in a time...
7523269 Preparing memory to allow access to data when primary operating system is unavailable  
Systems and methods of sharing files and data in memory between the two operating systems running on a computing device. A main operating system (OS) may execute on the computing device an provide...
7523179 System and method for conducting direct data placement (DDP) using a TOE (TCP offload engine) capable network interface card  
Techniques, systems, and apparatus for conducting direct data placement of network message data to a final destination in a user buffer are disclosed. Generally, the invention is configured to...
7523175 Programmatic interface to network device operating system  
A method and apparatus for processing a network operating system operation is provided. A network management application that configures and monitors network components transmits a payload...
7523323 Method and apparatus for quick resumption  
When transitioning from sleep mode to active mode, a processing system loads first stage resume content and second stage resume content into a volatile memory of the processing system. The first...
7522840 Adjustable boot speed in an optical transceiver  
An operational optical transceiver configured to dynamically adjust the boot speed of the optical transceiver boot process. The optical transceiver includes a persistent memory, a system memory,...
7519807 Method and system for implementing a diagnostic or correction boot image over a network connection  
The present invention is directed to a system that initiates specific maintenance and diagnostic boot images on remote computers. The system is used to select a particular remote device over a...
7519808 Method and apparatus for quickly reanimating devices from hibernation  
A system that causes a computing device to enter a hibernation mode. During operation, the system creates a hibernation image for the computing device by identifying processes that do not have...
7519801 Post-install configuration of modules during startup of a modular application platform  
Described is a configuration module useful for configuring modules of a modular application platform during run-time of the modular application platform. The configuration module produces a...
7519802 System and method for configuring a computer system  
Systems and methods for configuring a computer system are disclosed. One embodiment of a system may comprise memory that stores configuration data for a plurality of components of a computer...
7519630 Method and system for automated testing of versioned information handling system applications  
Automated testing of versioned information handling system applications is performed by automatically compiling currently available versions at regular time intervals throughout a development cycle...
7519827 Provisioning and use of security tokens to enable automated test equipment  
Automated test equipment (ATE) is provided with a plurality of hardware components, at least two of which provide a common test feature. The ATE is also provided with program code to access a...
7519809 Operating system-wide sandboxing via switchable user skins  
A method and system that provides a pass through block device that is utilized to redirect all the writes bound to the system drive(s) to an overlay skin device. Reads are performed on overlay...
7519823 Concealed, non-intrusive watermarks for configuration bitstreams  
Various approaches for embedding identifier information in a configuration bitstream for a programmable logic device (PLD) are disclosed. In various embodiments, the bits in the configuration...
7519804 Split read only memory architecture for storage option read only memories  
A method for reducing execution time for a power on self test (POST) of an information handling system which includes providing the information handling system with a split option ROM wherein the...
7519800 Apparatus and method for enforcing homogeneity within partitions of heterogeneous computer systems  
A heterogeneous computer system has multiple interconnected cells, each cell has multiple primary processors of the same Instruction Set Architecture (ISA) type, but different cells may have...
7519805 Method for operating a data processing device while using compressed data  
The invention describes a method for operating a data processing device while using compressed data, wherein a non-compressed boot program is loaded into a volatile working memory, which initiates...
7519803 Build-to-order embedded operating system partition  
A method of enabling a user to upgrade an information handling system which includes storing an application within an embedded partition during the fabrication of the information handling system...
7516318 Method of controlling an image forming apparatus  
A method of controlling an image forming apparatus having at least one consumption part. The method includes fetching specification information corresponding to the at least one consumption part,...
7516317 Measuring an operating system's boot duration  
Techniques for measuring an operating system's boot duration are provided. The techniques include adding a startup application to an operating system's list of startup applications, determining...
7516315 Electronic device having an alterable configuration and methods of manufacturing and configuring the same  
An electronic device having an alterable configuration and methods of manufacturing and configuring the same are provided. The electronic device includes a processor and a non-volatile memory. The...
7516316 Method for loading configuration data onto a non-volatile memory and a device using the same  
A method for loading configuration data onto a non-volatile memory and the device using the same is provided. A non-volatile memory block is preloaded with a certain compatible memory configuration...
7516319 Method for booting a computer with second OS involves formatting portion of main memory with a second file system to generate ramdisk  
A boot method is implemented in a computer comprising a main memory and a storage device. A partition of the storage device comprises a first operating system and a second operating system. The...