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7415634 Method for fast system recovery via degraded reboot  
A system and method for fast system recovery that bypasses diagnostic routines by disconnecting failed hardware from the system before rebooting. Failed hardware and hardware that will be affected...
7412565 Memory optimization for a computer system having a hibernation mode  
A computer system that increases performance and reduces power consumption is described. Specifically, the system writes the contents of the system to a non-volatile memory cache before powering...
7412545 Apparatus and method for updating I/O capability of a logically-partitioned computer system  
A hosting partition update mechanism allows updating the I/O capability of a logically-partitioned computer system in a way that minimally affects the performance and availability of I/O in the...
7412553 Enhanced protocol conversion system capable of providing offloaded protocol instruction processing  
Systems are provided for the offloading of protocol control and conversion information within microprocessor-based systems. A converter controller comprises a first interface and protocol, as well...
7412595 Customization of electronic devices via pre-boot space  
Methods and apparatuses for maintaining customization information for an electronic device in an operating system independent component that may be accessed prior to completion of a boot up process...
7412594 Method and apparatus for managing data access and storage of data located on multiple storage devices  
An apparatus and method for accessing a data item from a storage system having a plurality of data storage devices are disclosed. I/O operation requests are submitted to multiple data storage...
7412597 Computer system and booting method thereof  
A computer system and a booting method thereof are disclosed. The computer system contains a storage device for storing a booting system and a multi-tasking kernel; and a microprocessor coupled to...
7412055 Method and system for fair exchange of user information  
A method and system for a fair exchange of user information over a network is disclosed. The method comprises the steps of: transmitting over the network the user information encoded in association...
7412596 Method for preventing system wake up from a sleep state if a boot log returned during the system wake up cannot be authenticated  
A method and system for enabling security attestation for a computing device during a return from an S4 sleep state. When the computing device enters into the S4 state following a successful boot...
7409539 System design and code update strategy to implement a self-healing, self-verifying system  
The present invention relates to boot code processing of a computer system, and in particular to a method and respective system for managing boot code of a computer system, wherein the system...
7409709 Systems and methods for automatically reconfiguring a network device  
Systems and methods are disclosed for automatically configuring, managing, and maintaining a network device or VPN using a public network such as the Internet. Initial configuration of a network...
7409435 Integrated services hub binary file trial run process  
The present invention discloses a method of automatically downloading and testing binary code for a customer premises telecommunications hub. When a new binary file is received by the hub, it is...
7409537 Fast booting an operating system from an off state  
Described is a fast boot mechanism that generally operates by persisting static data and/or code for a system component, and then providing the system component with access to the static data...
7409561 Piracy protection for combined hardware/software products  
An apparatus, computer program product, and method for preventing piracy in combined hardware/software products, and specifically in RAID storage systems is disclosed. In a preferred embodiment of...
7409546 Cryptographically signed filesystem  
A cryptographically signed filesystem provides a central database resident on a server that contains database objects. The server creates startup software to be installed in a client system's read...
7409536 Computer systems with several operating systems coexisting thereon and swapping between these operating systems  
Computer systems in which at least two operating systems coexist independently from each other, and that swap between the operating systems. Provides methods to have at least two operating systems...
7409538 Update in-use flash memory without external interfaces  
A method, apparatus and program storage device for updating a non-volatile memory in an embedded system is provided. The invention includes detaching the non-volatile memory from all expectable...
7406591 Booting from a remote BIOS image  
A method, system and article of manufacture to boot a computer system from a remote Basic Input/Output System (BIOS) image. A request for a local Basic Input/Output System (BIOS) image of a...
7406673 Method and system for identifying essential configuration bits  
A method and system are disclosed. The method and system provide the ability to identify a configuration bit as an essential configuration bit. The identifying that is performed uses a...
7406592 Method, system, and apparatus for efficient evaluation of boolean expressions  
Methods, systems, and computer-readable media are provided for efficiently evaluation Boolean expressions. According to the method, the Boolean expression is expressed using pre-fix notation. Each...
7404073 Transitioning from startup code to application code during initialization of a processor based device  
Method and apparatus for initializing a processor based device having a processor that controls an electrical load, such as a motor. The electrical load is initially operationally controlled using...
7404075 Method, system and computer program product for generic and flexible collection of a hardware data image  
A method of processing data is proposed. In response to determining that a reconfiguration of a data processing system has occurred, one or more system items are surveyed to identify a change to...
7404072 System and method for loading a valid image from one of a plurality of images into a memory of a network device  
A system for loading images includes a read-only memory (ROM) ( 160 ) for storing the images; an initialization module ( 110 ) for initializing a running environment of the system, and for starting...
7403957 Image forming apparatus having control codes and rewrite control method for the same  
In an image forming apparatus for forming an image in accordance with control codes stored in a plurality of memory media, when the control codes stored in the plurality of memory media to control...
7401214 Method for executing computer function options with intelligent memory for computer-based multimedia system  
A method for executing computer function option with intelligent memory is provided, including loading the multimedia application program corresponding to the pressed function option button into...
7401212 Self-contained computer servicing device  
Servicing a computer using a self-contained computer servicing device. The device includes a memory storing an operating system. The device includes a first interface for connecting the device to...
7398381 Utilizing paging to support dynamic code updates  
A code object and flash memory may be updated by storing a new code object in the flash memory. Then, a pointer from a page table may be redirected to point to the new code object. The old code...
7398382 Method and apparatus to enhance platform boot efficiency  
Methods and apparatus for improving network boot efficiency are disclosed. Under embodiments of the method, boot images that are initially sent from a boot server to various clients are cached at...
7398331 Peripheral apparatus, firmware updating method thereof for determining whether an error has occurred during the installation of a rewrite operation  
A peripheral apparatus reserves and stores, on a nonvolatile storage medium, a first storage area which stores a control program for implementing a function of the peripheral apparatus, and a...
7397498 Camera device and method and program for starting the camera device  
A camera device comprises a movable optical system, a driving unit which drives the optical system, and a control unit which controls the driving unit to move the optical system to a predetermined...
7398383 Method and system for using internal FIFO RAM to improve system boot times  
Embodiments of methods and systems for improving boot-up time in computer systems utilize RAM in devices separate from the main memory, normally dedicated to another function, to provide a stack...
7398379 Programmable logic device integrated circuits with wireless programming  
Methods and apparatus are provided for conveying configuration data to a programmable logic device integrated circuit. When the configuration data is loaded into configuration memory on the...
7398384 Methods and apparatus for acquiring expansion read only memory size information prior to operating system execution  
Methods and apparatus for acquiring expansion read only memory size information prior to operating system execution are disclosed. The disclosed methods and apparatus access an instance of a data...
7395434 Method for secure storage and verification of the administrator, power-on password and configuration information  
A computer includes a processor, an input device and a read only memory (“ROM”). One or more passwords are flashed in the ROM in encoded form. The encoding process may include any well-known...
7395455 System, method and program product for recovering from a failure  
System, method and computer program product for recovering from a failure of a computing device. Start up of a first component of the device is monitored and a determination is made whether the...
7395422 Method and system of changing a startup list of programs to determine whether computer system performance increases  
A method and system of changing a startup list of programs to determine whether performance of a computer system increases. Some illustrative embodiments are a processor-based method comprising...
7395421 Method and apparatus for booting a user-selectable operating system  
A computer system includes a memory subsystem to store both a full operating system and a mini operating system. The mini operating system boots much more quickly than the full operating system,...
7392518 Robust remote flash ROM upgrade system and method  
The present invention is a solution that provides reliable and robust boot upgrade system and method. A power up boot process is performed in which a boot update application monitors for an...
7392373 Granularity on a per port basis of request-response communications over a networked computer system  
Methods, systems, and media are disclosed for improved granularity of a response-request communication on a networked computer system. One example embodiment includes receiving the request-response...
7392361 Generic reallocation function for heap reconstitution in a multi-processor shared memory environment  
Managing memory includes receiving a request for a memory allocation, determining whether the memory allocation is to be maintained when subsequently initializing memory and saving information...
7391438 Camera device and method and program for starting the camera device  
A camera device comprises an optical system driven to a predetermined position upon initialization when a photographing mode has been set, a memory including an area for storing lens information...
7389410 Automatically deriving order of initialization for computing services across multiple computing systems  
Automated derivation of an initialization ordering for computing services distributed across multiple computing systems. The initialization ordering is derived by monitoring initialization times...
7386714 Transmitting data from a single storage unit between multiple processors during booting  
An electronic control unit includes a main microcomputer and a sub-microcomputer. Both the microcomputers include buffers for initialization and buffers for normal processing. At the time of...
7386653 Flash memory arrangement  
A device, a method and a system for direct execution of code from a flash memory arrangement, in which a separate memory component is not required, even if a flash memory component is used which...
7386698 Apparatus and method for automatically defining, deploying and managing hardware and software resources in a logically-partitioned computer system  
A partition wizard allows automatically defining from a set of system requirements a solution profile that defines a combination of hardware and software in multiple logical partitions to satisfy...
7386715 System and method for replicating data in a distributed system  
It is common in distributed systems to replicate data. In many cases, this data evolves in a consistent fashion, and this evolution can be modeled. A probabilistic model of the evolution allows us...
7385631 Camera device and method and program for starting the camera device  
A camera device comprises a movable optical system, a driving unit which drives the optical system, and a control unit which makes the driving unit start driving of the optical system to a...
7386711 Method and apparatus for redirecting the boot operations of one or more systems  
The boot operations of one or more systems may be redirected. For example, a master boot processor may configure a slave boot processor to boot over a communication bus existing between the...
7386654 Non-volatile configuration data storage for a configurable memory  
Various embodiments of the invention may provide one or more non-volatile storage entities, such as a register or a storage array, to store configuration information for a memory device. The...
7386712 Firmware developer user interface with break command polling  
A method for providing a firmware developer user interface in a multi-nodal computer system comprises polling for a break command during boot of a multi-nodal computer system and invoking a...