Patents by Inventor Kristopher Anthony Slocum

Kristopher Anthony Slocum has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • System and method of operating system executables with information handling systems (IHS)
    Patent number: 11836499
    Abstract: In one or more embodiments, one or more systems, one or more methods, and/or one or more methods may: execute a first information handling system (IHS) initialization executable via an environment associated with IHS firmware; register, by the first IHS initialization executable, a process configured to store multiple IHS initialization executable/OS executable pairs via a volatile memory medium of the IHS; for each IHS initialization executable/OS executable pair of the multiple IHS initialization executable/OS executable pairs: call, by an IHS initialization executable of the IHS initialization executable/OS executable pair, the process; and copy, by the process, an OS executable of the IHS initialization executable/OS executable pair from the first non-volatile memory medium to the volatile memory medium; retrieve a driver via a network; execute the driver; and copy, by the driver, each OS executable, which was copied to the volatile memory medium, to a non-volatile memory medium of the IHS.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Dongli Wu, Brijesh Kumar Mishra, James Darrell Testerman, Sai Sivakumar Dhakshinamurthy, Kristopher Anthony Slocum
  • SYSTEM AND METHOD OF OPERATING SYSTEM EXECUTABLES WITH INFORMATION HANDLING SYSTEMS
    Publication number: 20230195472
    Abstract: In one or more embodiments, one or more systems, one or more methods, and/or one or more methods may: execute a first information handling system (IHS) initialization executable via an environment associated with IHS firmware; register, by the first IHS initialization executable, a process configured to store multiple IHS initialization executable/OS executable pairs via a volatile memory medium of the IHS; for each IHS initialization executable/OS executable pair of the multiple IHS initialization executable/OS executable pairs: call, by an IHS initialization executable of the IHS initialization executable/OS executable pair, the process; and copy, by the process, an OS executable of the IHS initialization executable/OS executable pair from the first non-volatile memory medium to the volatile memory medium; retrieve a driver via a network; execute the driver; and copy, by the driver, each OS executable, which was copied to the volatile memory medium, to a non-volatile memory medium of the IHS.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2021
    Publication date: June 22, 2023
    Inventors: Dongli Wu, Brijesh Kumar Mishra, James Darrell Testerman, Sai Sivakumar Dhakshinamurthy, Kristopher Anthony Slocum