Patents by Inventor Jared R. Gaunt

Jared R. Gaunt 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).

  • Computer imaging recovery without a working partition or a secondary medium
    Patent number: 7216251
    Abstract: An initial setup method (100) stores recovery tools (400) and a further setup script (402) on a computer (1000) which has an operating system (302) that need not have any recovery capabilities. At the user site, a further setup method (700, 800) reserves (706) a container space (500) in the file system space (304), creates (716) an image (1008) of the main partition (300), and stores (720) the image in the container. If the partition is corrupted later, the computer can still be booted using virtual boot tools (602), the image can be retrieved (914) from the container even though the partition around it was lost, and the image can then be deployed onto disk (200) over the corrupted partition, thereby restoring a working partition to the computer. This can be done without secondary media such as a recovery CD or floppy, and without a network connection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2007
    Assignee: Powerquest Corporation
    Inventors: Jared R. Gaunt, Val A. Arbon
  • Computer imaging recovery without a working partition or a secondary medium
    Publication number: 20030221095
    Abstract: An initial setup method (100) stores recovery tools (400) and a further setup script (402) on a computer (1000) which has an operating system (302) that need not have any recovery capabilities. At the user site, a further setup method (700, 800) reserves (706) a container space (500) in the file system space (304), creates (716) an image (1008) of the main partition (300), and stores (720) the image in the container. If the partition is corrupted later, the computer can still be booted using virtual boot tools (602), the image can be retrieved (914) from the container even though the partition around it was lost, and the image can then be deployed onto disk (200) over the corrupted partition, thereby restoring a working partition to the computer. This can be done without secondary media such as a recovery CD or floppy, and without a network connection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2003
    Publication date: November 27, 2003
    Applicant: PowerQuest Corporation
    Inventors: Jared R. Gaunt, Val A. Arbon