Patents Assigned to Ardence, Inc.
  • System for and method of network booting of an operating system to a client computer using hibernation
    Patent number: 7334122
    Abstract: A system for and method of network booting of an operating system (O/S) on one or more client devices, such as personal computers (PC's), employing a hibernation image. Remote booting of sets of client devices is facilitated by employing virtual disk emulation and, in certain preferred embodiments, broadcasting or multicasting of data residing on a network server which is necessary to appropriately boot and configure the one or more client devices, the data including hibernation, O/S and application files.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2008
    Assignee: Ardence, Inc.
    Inventors: Gintautas Burokas, Kenny Bunch, Robert Lusinsky, Marc Sandusky, Mike Garelick
  • System for and method of streaming data to a computer in a network
    Patent number: 7321936
    Abstract: A system for and method of rapidly streaming data to one or more client devices, such as personal computers (PC's) from a server employing virtual disk emulation and broadcasting or multicasting of data residing on a network server. In some embodiments, the streamed data includes files necessary to boot and configure the one or more client devices, the data including hibernation, O/S and application files.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2002
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2008
    Assignee: Ardence, Inc.
    Inventors: Myron Zimmerman, Robert Lusinsky, Gint Burokas, Mike Garelick, Marc Sandusky, Kenny Bunch
  • System for and method of network booting of an operating system to a client computer using hibernation
    Patent number: 6954852
    Abstract: A system for and method of network booting of an operating system (O/S) on one or more client devices, such as personal computers (PC's), employing a hibernation image. Remote booting of sets of client devices is facilitated by employing virtual disk emulation and, in certain preferred embodiments, broadcasting or multicasting of data residing on a network server which is necessary to appropriately boot and configure the one or more client devices, the data including hibernation, O/S and application files.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2002
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2005
    Assignee: Ardence, Inc.
    Inventors: Gintautas Burokas, Kenny Bunch, Robert Lusinsky, Marc Sandusky, Mike Garelick