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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:
Sep. 10, 2013
Filed:
Apr. 21, 2009
Applicants:
Lan Wang, Cypress, TX (US);
Valiuddin Y Ali, Cypress, TX (US);
James L. Mondshine, Cypress, TX (US);
Inventors:
Lan Wang, Cypress, TX (US);
Valiuddin Y Ali, Cypress, TX (US);
James L. Mondshine, Cypress, TX (US);
Assignee:
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/00 (2006.01); G06F 15/177 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
During a boot block part of a boot procedure in an electronic device having a persistent secondary storage, a feature that prevents access to the persistent secondary storage is disabled. The persistent secondary storage is accessed during the boot block part of the boot procedure to retrieve information to perform a predetermined task.