Intel Corporation

Ruth Li

Vincent J Zimmer

Michael A Rothman

Fei Li

David Huang

Jerry Zhao

Xiaojian Wu

Changpeng Chen

A system, method, and computer readable medium for an operating system (OS) mediated launch of an OS dependent application is disclosed. An application running within an OS may operate outside an OS environment by constructing for example a capsule file, passing the capsule file to firmware interface, and restarting the system. The firmware interface may load various drivers and applications contained within the capsule file and execute them to perform a task. Upon completion of the task, the OS is booted again and the original application may resume control, making use of any information stored by the firmware interface in a dedicated status table or file. Other embodiments may be employed, and other embodiments are described and claimed.

OS-mediated launch of OS-independent application

A method and apparatus for retrieving dynamic content over a communications network prior to booting an operating system is presented. The content may include a screen image for display on a console. The time period for displaying the content may be controlled by another computer coupled to the communications network. The content may be an advertisement that is displayed on a computer system in an Internet caf&#xe9; for a controllable period of time prior to booting an operating system.

Dynamic pre-operating system billboard service

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Shanghai, China

Ruth Li