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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. 04, 2013
Filed:
Jan. 27, 2011
Applicants:
Lee a Preimesberger, Houston, TX (US);
Sangita Amit Patel, Houston, TX (US);
Eric Ramirez, Houston, TX (US);
Inventors:
Lee A Preimesberger, Houston, TX (US);
Sangita Amit Patel, Houston, TX (US);
Eric Ramirez, Houston, TX (US);
Assignee:
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/00 (2006.01); G06F 9/24 (2006.01); G06F 9/445 (2006.01); G06F 15/177 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A device including a ready only memory to include component drivers for at least one component of the device, a controller to determine whether a bootable storage device includes at least one operating system, and an embedded application to select and load component drivers onto the device for at least one of the components before installing an operating system from the bootable storage device.