Patent · US Expired

Method and apparatus for providing virtual devices

US7177790B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateNov 13, 2002
Grant dateFeb 13, 2007
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Expiry dateOct 20, 2024

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04L69/329
  • WIPO fieldComputer technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A system and method for downloading over a network operating systems or other executable programs to a computer that may not have a boot device or other device containing the executable program. The computer may boot in real mode and transfer data packets using a UDP protocol. The computer may virtualize disk requests and encapsulate them as UDP packets as required or useful.

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