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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. 23, 2005
Filed:
Jun. 27, 2003
Applicant:
Jean-francois Larvoire, Meylan, FR;
Inventor:
Jean-Francois Larvoire, Meylan, FR;
Assignee:
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F009/06 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
An operating system selector operable to boot a non-EFI compatible operating system where the operating system files are stored in a GPT partition of a data storage drive, the data storage drive having a first address set, the operating system selector being operable to read a GUID partition table to identify address information relating to the GPT partition, define the GPT partition as a virtual data storage drive having a second address set, call an address mapper and pass the address information to the address mapper, and perform a loading step to boot the operating system.