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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 08, 2000
Filed:
Apr. 20, 1998
Applicant:
Inventors:
Gareth Christopher Matthews, Cedar Park, TX (US);
David Medina, Austin, TX (US);
Allen Chester Wynn, Round Rock, TX (US);
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
713-2 ; 714 15 ; 707 10 ;
Abstract
A method and apparatus provides initializing a data processing system within a distributed data processing system. The data processing system receives data wherein the data is used to initialize the data processing system. The data processing system saves an image within the data processing system in a selected state after initialization of the data processing system, wherein the image is a saved image. The data processing system restores to the state using the saved image.