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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 09, 2004
Filed:
Jul. 24, 2001
William E. Jacobs, The Woodlands, TX (US);
Daniel V. Forlenza, Cypress, TX (US);
James L. Mondshine, Cypress, TX (US);
Tim L. Zhang, Spring, TX (US);
Gregory B. Memo, Spring, TX (US);
Kevin R. Frost, Spring, TX (US);
Lonnie J. Pope, Houston, TX (US);
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
Briefly, a computer system plays audio CDs in a CD-ROM drive during an audio CD play mode in which the computer system is not fully powered. An audio CD play controller of the computer system includes a means for detecting a plurality of audio CD play buttons for playing an audio CD in the CD-ROM drive and a means for communicating a plurality of audio CD play commands corresponding to the plurality of audio CD play buttons to the CD-ROM drive. The computer system enters the audio CD play mode without a full boot-up procedure and without loading an operating system.