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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:
Mar. 21, 2006
Filed:
Dec. 31, 2002
Applicant:
John Alan Hensley, Raleigh, NC (US);
Inventor:
John Alan Hensley, Raleigh, NC (US);
Assignee:
Other;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/24 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A computer operating system (OS) is altered to boot so as to run from a normally unsupported system device (NUSD). The OS kernel is loaded from a natively supported boot device, such as a floppy disk or CD-ROM, and initialized. Device drivers for a NUSD are then loaded from the boot device and initialized. A bootswap device driver is also loaded and initialized. The bootswap device driver is operative to alter an OS data structure such that the NUSD is recognized as a system device. Upon completion of the boot sequence, the OS runs from the NUSD as a system drive. A method of preparing the boot media and configuring the NUSD is presented.