Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.

Kevin Meier

Timothy M Perrett

Deepak Arora

Qing Song

Yunlong Zhou

Luigi Rosso

A method, a device, and a non-transitory storage medium provide to execute a first stage boot loader during a boot-up of the device; determine whether a disaster recovery service is invoked based on the first stage boot loader reading a first file that indicates whether the disaster recovery service was invoked during a previous cycle of the device and detecting a position of a button of the device; execute a second stage boot loader in response to a determination that the disaster recovery service is invoked; again determine whether the disaster recovery service is invoked; and reboot in response to a determination that the disaster recovery service is not invoked.

Software upgrade and disaster recovery on a computing device

A method, a device, and a non-transitory storage medium provide to store a boot loader that includes a first stage boot loader and a second stage boot loader, and wherein the first stage boot loader is not upgradeable and the second stage boot loader is upgradeable; store a first operating system and a second operating system, wherein the first operating system is a main operating system and the second operating system is an operating system that is executed only when a disaster recovery service is invoked; execute the first stage boot loader during a boot-up of the device; determine whether the disaster recovery service is invoked during the execution of the first stage boot loader; load the second stage boot loader in response to a determination that the disaster recovery service is invoked; and determine whether an upgraded second stage boot loader is stored at the device in response to a determination that the disaster recovery service is not invoked.

Apparatuses, methods and storage medium associated with rendering a web page are disclosed herein. In embodiments, a method may include rendering, by a main thread of a browser, one or more non-image objects of the web page; decoding in parallel, by an image decoder of the browser, an image of the web page, while the main thread renders the one or more non-image objects of the web page. On completion of decoding the image, the main thread renders the decoded image. The web page may be part of a web application. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.

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