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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 19, 2008
Filed:
Aug. 09, 2005
Gintautas Burokas, Orland Park, IL (US);
Kenny Bunch, Chesapeake, VA (US);
Robert Lusinsky, Anaheim Hills, CA (US);
Marc Sandusky, Aliso Viejo, CA (US);
Mike Garelick, Oceanside, CA (US);
Gintautas Burokas, Orland Park, IL (US);
Kenny Bunch, Chesapeake, VA (US);
Robert Lusinsky, Anaheim Hills, CA (US);
Marc Sandusky, Aliso Viejo, CA (US);
Mike Garelick, Oceanside, CA (US);
Ardence, Inc., Waltham, MA (US);
Abstract
A system for and method of network booting of an operating system (O/S) on one or more client devices, such as personal computers (PC's), employing a hibernation image. Remote booting of sets of client devices is facilitated by employing virtual disk emulation and, in certain preferred embodiments, broadcasting or multicasting of data residing on a network server which is necessary to appropriately boot and configure the one or more client devices, the data including hibernation, O/S and application files.