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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.

Date of Patent:
Mar. 01, 2022

Filed:

Jul. 24, 2019
Applicant:

Vmware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);

Inventors:

Andrei Warkentin, Cambridge, MA (US);

Cyprien Laplace, Cambridge, MA (US);

Ye Li, Cambridge, MA (US);

Alexander Fainkichen, Southborough, MA (US);

Regis Duchesne, Monts-de-Corsier, CH;

Assignee:

VMware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/177 (2006.01); G06F 9/00 (2006.01); G06F 9/4401 (2018.01); G06F 16/22 (2019.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/4401 (2013.01); G06F 16/2282 (2019.01);
Abstract

A method for generating boot tables for a device having access to device information. It is determined whether there exists at least one system boot table stored in a memory. If it is determined that a system boot table does not exist, the device information is retrieved, and the device information is converted to at least one boot table. The converting includes generating a first boot table by populating the first boot table with information of components of the device that have a correspondence to a computer system boot information standard. The generating also includes generating a second boot table for another component of the device that does not have a correspondence to the computer system boot information standard, by creating an entry in the second boot table that is populated with an identifier used to find a compatible component defined in the computer system boot standard.


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