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Phoenix Technologies Ltd.

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108Patents
28Active
108Granted
45Portfolio score

Filing activity: Nov 30, 1992 → Apr 5, 2018 · 10 expiring within 5 years

Most-cited patents

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US5929849A Integration of dynamic universal resource locators with television presentations Electricity 884 Expired
US5978912A Network enhanced BIOS enabling remote management of a computer without a functioning operating system Physics 329 Expired
US6557104B2 Method and apparatus for secure processing of cryptographic keys Physics 297 Expired
US6792533B2 Cryptographic methods for remote authentication Electricity 234 Expired
US6487713B1 Software development system that presents a logical view of project components, facilitates their selection, and signals missing links prior to compilation Physics 201 Expired
US7139917B2 Systems, methods and software for remote password authentication using multiple servers Electricity 123 Expired
US5416840A Software catalog encoding method and system Physics 111 Expired
US6308265A Protection of boot block code while allowing write accesses to the boot block Physics 97 Expired
US5615331A System and method for debugging a computing system Physics 86 Expired
US6324644A Network enhanced bios enabling remote management of a computer without a functioning operating system Physics 86 Expired
US6578142B1 Method and apparatus for automatically installing and configuring software on a computer Physics 79 Expired
US6542160B1 Re-generating a displayed image Physics 74 Expired
US6449682B1 System and method for inserting one or more files onto mass storage Physics 74 Expired
US6282641A System for reconfiguring a boot device by swapping the logical device number of a user selected boot drive to a currently configured boot drive Physics 73 Expired
US6564318B1 Method and apparatus for execution of an application during computer pre-boot operation and post-boot under normal OS control Physics 72 Expired
US6734864B2 Re-generating a displayed image Physics 71 Expired
US6148387A System and method for securely utilizing basic input and output system (BIOS) services Physics 68 Expired
US5999730A Generation of firmware code using a graphic representation Physics 61 Expired
US6373498B1 Displaying images during boot-up and shutdown Physics 60 Expired
US8874892B1 Assessing BIOS information prior to reversion Physics 56 Active
US6006340A Communication interface between two finite state machines operating at different clock domains Physics 56 Expired
US6145068A Data transfer to a non-volatile storage medium Physics 52 Expired
US6405309B1 Method and apparatus for creating and deploying smaller Microsoft Windows applications for automatic configuration of a computing device Physics 49 Expired
US6438750B1 Determining loading time of an operating system Physics 48 Expired
US6453469B1 Method and apparatus to automatically deinstall an application module when not functioning Physics 48 Expired

Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Counts and citation impact are objective bibliographic measures.