Method and apparatus for providing virtual devices
US7177790B2 · kind B2 · utility
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| Filing date | Nov 13, 2002 |
| Grant date | Feb 13, 2007 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Oct 20, 2024 |
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- 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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