Patents by Inventor Ben A. KONING

Ben A. KONING 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).

  • Method and system for dynamically resizing enclosed storage device partitions
    Patent number: 9021457
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for updating a recovery operating system (OS) stored in a boot partition of a storage device. The method involves booting, via host operating system (OS) boot files stored in the boot partition, a host OS that is stored in a host partition of the storage device, receiving a request to update a recovery OS also stored in the boot partition, determining the recovery OS update requires additional storage space of size Z to be added to the boot partition, decreasing the size of the host partition by the size Z, increasing the size of the boot partition by the size Z, and updating the recovery OS.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2015
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Ben A. Koning, Jim F. Kateley
  • METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DYNAMICALLY RESIZING ENCLOSED STORAGE DEVICE PARTITIONS
    Publication number: 20140208091
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for updating a recovery operating system (OS) stored in a boot partition of a storage device. The method involves booting, via host operating system (OS) boot files stored in the boot partition, a host OS that is stored in a host partition of the storage device, receiving a request to update a recovery OS also stored in the boot partition, determining the recovery OS update requires additional storage space of size Z to be added to the boot partition, decreasing the size of the host partition by the size Z, increasing the size of the boot partition by the size Z, and updating the recovery OS.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2013
    Publication date: July 24, 2014
    Applicant: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Ben A. KONING, Jim F. KATELEY