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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 06, 2003
Filed:
Jun. 18, 1999
Laurent K. Gharda, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Jeff Chen, Taipei, TW;
Phoenix Technologies Ltd., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
A special BIOS includes a program application manager (PAM) and a file system structure (FSS) that points to addresses on a mass storage device (MSD) for an application and at least one presentation playable by the application. The BIOS calls the PAM on startup, and the PAM checks for an application and presentation, and finding same loads the application and plays the presentation before loading the operating system (OS). In a preferred embodiment the FSS is programmable, and the system after OS boot is started checks MSD devices for new FSS parameters, and finding same loads the parameters to the programmable FSS of the BIOS. In some embodiments parameters may cause presentations and associated applications to be accessed and executed in a rotating or serial order.