Patents by Inventor Edward S. Chao

Edward S. Chao 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).

  • Real-time operation by a diskless client computer
    Patent number: 7827215
    Abstract: An exemplary method controls the operation of a diskless client computer using a disk based operating system. The client computer is booted by fetching operating system modules through a network connection from a remote host computer. A ramdisk stores key operating system modules. The key operating system modules are locked in ramdisk to prevent swapping of the modules by the operating system. The loading of programs requiring real-time operation stored at the host computer are managed so that the programs are loaded as separate modules spaced-apart in time where the client computer is released between the loading of the separate modules to process other tasks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2010
    Assignee: Alcatel-Lucent USA Inc.
    Inventors: Edward S. Chao, Christopher D. Liesen, Warren R. Smith