Patents by Inventor Isaac Kareel

Isaac Kareel 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 for loading programs from HDD independent of operating system
    Patent number: 7702894
    Abstract: A method for booting into computer memory a non-operating system (O.S.) program from a hard disk drive (HDD) prior to booting into memory an O.S. from the HDD. The method includes establishing a table of contents (TOC) on the HDD that contains entries for special O.S. programs. A pointer to the TOC is placed in non-volatile memory of the computer that is associated with the HDD, and when BIOS of the computer is prompted to load into memory one of the special O.S. programs, the pointer is accessed and used to locate the TOC, which in turn is accessed to load the special O.S. program.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2010
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Rod David Waltermann, Nathan J. Peterson, Joseph Wayne Freeman, Randall Scott Springfield, Mark Charles Davis, Steven Dale Goodman, Isaac Kareel, Scott Edwards Kelso
  • SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR LOADING PROGRAMS FROM HDD INDEPENDENT OF OPERATING SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20080091874
    Abstract: A method for booting into computer memory a non-operating system (O.S.) program from a hard disk drive (HDD) prior to booting into memory an O.S. from the HDD. The method includes establishing a table of contents (TOC) on the HDD that contains entries for special O.S. programs. A pointer to the TOC is placed in non-volatile memory of the computer that is associated with the HDD, and when BIOS of the computer is prompted to load into memory one of the special O.S. programs, the pointer is accessed and used to locate the TOC, which in turn is accessed to load the special O.S. program.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2007
    Publication date: April 17, 2008
    Inventors: Rod Waltermann, Nathan Peterson, Joseph Freeman, Randall Springfield, Mark Davis, Steven Goodman, Isaac Kareel, Scott Kelso