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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 17, 2017
Filed:
Jun. 25, 2009
Applicant:
Norman P. Brown, Tomball, TX (US);
Inventor:
Norman P. Brown, Tomball, TX (US);
Assignee:
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/00 (2006.01); G06F 13/00 (2006.01); G06F 13/28 (2006.01); G06F 1/24 (2006.01); G06F 9/445 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/24 (2013.01); G06F 8/65 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method for updating a thin client image includes the steps of writing a service operating system (OS) from a network device to limited capacity memory of a thin client device, writing a large part of a new image from the network to the memory of the thin client in a series of portions, without writing over the service OS, and writing a final small part of the new image over the service OS.