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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 26, 2019
Filed:
Jun. 06, 2016
Lenovo Enterprise Solutions (Singapore) Pte. Ltd., New Tech Park, SG;
Jeffrey S. Holland, Newton, NC (US);
Shareef F. Alshinnawi, Apex, NC (US);
Gary D. Cudak, Wake Forest, NC (US);
LENOVO ENTERPRISE SOLUTIONS (SINGAPORE) PTE. LTD., Singapore, SG;
Abstract
An apparatus, method, and program product are disclosed for loading a program during boot of a device. A monitor module collects usage data for each of one or more programs executing on a device. The usage data for each program comprising an amount of time that the program was used and a schedule of when the program was used. A priority module assigns a boot priority to each of the one or more programs based on the amount of time that each program was used. A boot module selects one or more programs to load during a boot period for the device based on each program's usage schedule. The one or more selected programs are loaded according to each selected program's boot priority.