Patents by Inventor Jay R. Danielsen

Jay R. Danielsen 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 apparatus for operating system deployment
    Patent number: 7546450
    Abstract: In general, in one aspect, the invention relates to a method for deploying an operating system on a client. The method includes downloading a boot configuration file, downloading a boot kernel and boot loader specified in the boot configuration file, booting the boot kernel on the client, executing the boot loader, by the kernel, to download of a ramdisk image, and mounting the ramdisk image in memory on the client, where the ramdisk image comprises the operating system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2009
    Assignee: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
    Inventor: Jay R. Danielsen