Patents by Inventor Stephen J. McEerlain

Stephen J. McEerlain 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).

  • Systems and methods for accelerated loading of operating systems and application programs
    Patent number: 7181608
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for accelerated loading of operating system and application programs upon system boot or application launch. In one aspect, a method for providing accelerated loading of an operating system includes maintaining a list of boot data used for booting a computer system, preloading the boot data upon initialization of the computer system, and servicing requests for boot data from the computer system using the preloaded boot data. The boot data may comprise program code associated with an operating system of the computer system, an application program, and a combination thereof. The boot data is retrieved from a boot device and stored in a cache memory device. The boot data is stored in a compressed format on the boot device and the preloaded boot data is decompressed prior to transmitting the preloaded boot data to the requesting system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2007
    Assignee: Realtime Data LLC
    Inventors: James J. Fallon, John Buck, Paul F. Pickel, Stephen J. McEerlain