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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. 20, 2005
Filed:
Jul. 02, 2002
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 ...
G06F015/177 ; G06F009/24 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A system and a method to boot from a modified GPT partitioned disk with a legacy BIOS based system. The system and method allows for backward compatibility with the new GPT standard. A GPT-aware bootstrap code may be loaded by the legacy BIOS upon system start up.