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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 19, 2017
Filed:
Apr. 16, 2015
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Dejun Zhang, Redmond, WA (US);
Bin Wang, Bellevue, WA (US);
Ying N. Chin, Bellevue, WA (US);
Pengxiang Zhao, Bellevue, WA (US);
Robert Y. Zhu, Bellevue, WA (US);
MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Embodiments are disclosed that relate to multi boot mobile phone devices. In one example, a mobile phone device comprises one or more non-volatile storage devices including an empty partition, a blob partition storing two or more operating systems in a compressed format, a boot selection module configured to recognize user selection of at least one of the two or more operating systems, and a boot allocation module configured to, responsive to user selection of at least one of the two or more operating systems, split the empty partition into a different operating system partition for each selected operating system, decompress each selected operating system, and store each decompressed operating system on its respective operating system partition.