The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document.
The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 07, 2021
Filed:
Jul. 22, 2020
Vmware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Cyprien Laplace, Boston, MA (US);
Andrei Warkentin, Cambridge, MA (US);
Shruthi Muralidhara Hiriyuru, Medford, MA (US);
Ye Li, Cambridge, MA (US);
Alexander Fainkichen, Southborough, MA (US);
Regis Duchesne, Monts-de-Corsier, CH;
Sunil Kumar Kotian, San Jose, CA (US);
Renaud Benjamin Voltz, Los Altos Hills, CA (US);
VMware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
A method for booting a computer system includes: loading a first stage bootloader of a plurality of first stage bootloaders from a boot image based on a known configuration of the computer system; executing the first stage bootloader to identify a selected bootbank of a plurality of bootbanks in the boot image based on the known configuration of the computer system; executing, by the first stage bootloader, a second stage bootloader from the boot image with an instruction to boot from the selected bootbank; and executing, by the second stage bootloader, a binary file in the selected bootbank.