Future Dial, Inc.

Splashtop Inc.

Phoenix Technologies Ltd.

Devicevm, Inc.

Benedict Chong

Thomas Deng

Victor Chin

Xun Fang

Philip Sheu

Robert Ha

Mark M Lee

Wenchi Fang

Yuchung Lu

Jian-Jung Shiu

Wei-Nan Lin

Hong-Sheng Wang

Wen-Pin Tsai

Kyungshin Noh

Rajeesh Padmanabhan

Phillip Sheu

Systems and methods of providing a secure access layer in a mobile phone and a computer system coupled to the mobile phone to provide authentication for transmitting data between the phone and the computer system.

Method and system to provide secure exchange of data between mobile phone and computer system

An instant-on environment consists of components residing in a computer boot ROM and/or also on a mass storage device. Main components to the instant-on environment include a loader, EPG1, and EPG2. The loader is a module that is integrated into the computer boot ROM, based on an embedded OS, that functions to load other instant-on environment components. There are various methods of integrating the loader into boot firmware to optimize for different requirements. EPG1 is a first user screen that appears on the computer display within seconds after power-on, and from which the user can choose to launch one of the instant-on environment's applications or launch the primary OS. EPG2 is launched if the user chooses to launch an instant-on environment application. EPG2 is a Linux-based desktop environment that the user enters once he selects an application from EPG1.

Integration model for instant-on environment

A method for boot media loader that includes detecting bootable media independent of any media partitioning. When bootable media is detected, data is read from a predetermined location of the bootable media. Next, the file system type is determined from the read data. The boot loader code is loaded for the corresponding file system type from basic input and output system (BIOS) code, and execution control is transferred to the boot loader code.

Media boot loader

A method and apparatus for the virtualization of appliances provides an embedded operating system (OS) which is included in the system boot ROM of a personal computer. When the system boots, the OS is launched and looks for all available virtual appliances from, for example, the following places: local USB, flash card, e.g. SD, xD, CF, CDROM/DVD, or other storage media; local hard disk storage; and the Internet, e.g. an appliance server. The user selects an appliance to use from the OS, whereupon the appliance is loaded and launched. If the selected appliance is not on a local storage, then it is downloaded, e.g. over the Internet from an appliance server. The downloaded appliance can be cached in local storage media such that, the next time it is needed, it need not be downloaded from the appliance server. The user can also elect to boot an operating system from the hard disk, if an operating system and hard disk are installed, or to power-off the system.

Method and apparatus for virtualization of appliances

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Benedict Chong