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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 23, 2014
Filed:
Dec. 15, 2010
Gary Streuter, San Clemente, CA (US);
Randell Deetz, Costa Mesa, CA (US);
Kenneth Burke, Costa Mesa, CA (US);
Gary Streuter, San Clemente, CA (US);
Randell Deetz, Costa Mesa, CA (US);
Kenneth Burke, Costa Mesa, CA (US);
CMS Products Inc, Costa Mesa, CA (US);
Abstract
Controlling a boot operation form an alternate operating system by pressing a single predetermined key or simultaneously pressing a set of unique keys on the keyboard which causes the computer system to reboot using the operating system on an attached drive to be booted. The user can recover operational use of their computer system when the internal system drive suffers a software application or operating system failure. An attached storage device containing a bootable operating system, an application program in the host computer that can detect the pressing of a single or set of unique keys on the keyboard which will then cause the application to process boot files and force a reboot of the operating system with the attached storage device as the boot device.