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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:
Dec. 25, 2000
Filed:
Apr. 27, 1998
Applicant:
Inventors:
Richard W Cheston, Morrisville, NC (US);
Roger Philip Hoggarth, Ayrshire, GB;
Richard Ian Knox, Renfrewshire, GB;
Howard J Locker, Cary, NC (US);
David Benson Rhoades, Apex, NC (US);
Assignee:
International Business Machine Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ; G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
711162 ; 711129 ; 711163 ;
Abstract
A method, system and computer program product in which half of the storage space on a non-volatile storage device is used to maintain a copy of the last 'known-good' copy of the operating system and on invocation by a user, restoring from this backup copy when, for example, the operating system has become corrupted due to changes made to settings or device drivers.