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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:
Jun. 24, 2008
Filed:
Dec. 20, 2001
Applicants:
Vincent J. Zimmer, Federal Way, WA (US);
Kirk D. Brannock, Olympia, WA (US);
Sham M. Datta, Hillsboro, OR (US);
Inventors:
Vincent J. Zimmer, Federal Way, WA (US);
Kirk D. Brannock, Olympia, WA (US);
Sham M. Datta, Hillsboro, OR (US);
Assignee:
Other;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A boot routine is initialized in a computer by bootstrapping a volume top file (VTF) located in a first addressable location accessible upon the initializing of the boot routine and the volume top file bootstrapping a set of firmware modules.