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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, 2011
Filed:
Apr. 29, 2005
Applicants:
Yi Meng, Bellevue, WA (US);
Matthew M. Kerner, Seattle, WA (US);
Karan Mehra, Redmond, WA (US);
Parveen K. Patel, Redmond, WA (US);
Inventors:
Yi Meng, Bellevue, WA (US);
Matthew M. Kerner, Seattle, WA (US);
Karan Mehra, Redmond, WA (US);
Parveen K. Patel, Redmond, WA (US);
Assignee:
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 11/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Provided is a technique to automatically detect and recover a computer system after a failed attempt to read a partition, for example, a failed attempt to boot a target operating system, caused by corrupt disk metadata, such as a corrupt partition table metadata or a corrupt boot sector metadata.