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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 27, 2011
Filed:
Aug. 28, 2008
Benedict T. Chong, San Jose, CA (US);
Mark M. Lee, Saratoga, CA (US);
Phillip Sheu, Lake Oswego, OR (US);
Robert P. Ha, Saratoga, CA (US);
Thomas Deng, Cupertino, CA (US);
Victor E. Chin, San Jose, CA (US);
Wenchi Fang, San Jose, CA (US);
Xun Fang, Livermore, CA (US);
Yuchung LU, Cupertino, CA (US);
Benedict T. Chong, San Jose, CA (US);
Mark M. Lee, Saratoga, CA (US);
Phillip Sheu, Lake Oswego, OR (US);
Robert P. Ha, Saratoga, CA (US);
Thomas Deng, Cupertino, CA (US);
Victor E. Chin, San Jose, CA (US);
Wenchi Fang, San Jose, CA (US);
Xun Fang, Livermore, CA (US);
Yuchung Lu, Cupertino, CA (US);
Splashtop Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
A method and apparatus for the virtualization of appliances provides an embedded operating system (OS) which is included in the system boot ROM of a personal computer. When the system boots, the OS is launched and looks for all available virtual appliances from, for example, the following places: local USB, flash card, e.g. SD, xD, CF, CDROM/DVD, or other storage media; local hard disk storage; and the Internet, e.g. an appliance server. The user selects an appliance to use from the OS, whereupon the appliance is loaded and launched. If the selected appliance is not on a local storage, then it is downloaded, e.g. over the Internet from an appliance server. The downloaded appliance can be cached in local storage media such that, the next time it is needed, it need not be downloaded from the appliance server. The user can also elect to boot an operating system from the hard disk, if an operating system and hard disk are installed, or to power-off the system.