Pre-boot operating environment

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 8560822
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13764313

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Approaches for a pre-boot operating environment. A BIOS, executing on a machine, is configured to execute a program prior to booting an operating system executing on the machine. Prior to loading an operating system on the machine, the program executes to establish a pre-boot operating environment. The pre-boot operating environment may support the execution of one or more application therein. The pre-boot operating environment may be a Linux-style or Unix-style operating environment.

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  • PHOENIX TECHNOLOGIES LTD.

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Chan, Steven Fremont, US 17 351
Kikinis, Dan Los Altos, US 371 19837

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